Or should we say, Hercules. The Russian leader's birthday was Oct. 7, and while he's having some R&R time in Siberia for the big 62, Russians across the land are celebrating his birth. In addition ...

The former Soviet Union saw self-expression as a threat. But in today’s Russia, a modern art scene is emerging from underground – at the government’s invitation.

Editor's note: This story includes a correction. One of Russia's most prominent modern art figures has been fired after refusing to allow an exhibit examining the darker side of the Sochi Olympics ...

Other themes include the Aged Body, Naked but Not Nude (for example, a family in their banya), the Live Body (the figure studies) and the Ethnic Body. At its height, the Soviet Union was a nation ...

SANTA FE, N.M. - In a land of sun-baked piqon and square adobe edifices, onion domes and tiaras seem odd. But Santa Fe, ever the worldly gathering place for artists and travelers, has delved into ...

The theme is revolution, in honor of the centennial of the Russian Revolution. The Street Art Museum’s location evokes the revolutionary industrial aesthetic, which inspired the Russian avant ...

Liu Xun (1929-2007) had a productive art career that lasted some six decades, covering lithography, traditional Chinese New Year paintings, comics, ink-brush and oil paintings. But he also ...

Below Leon Hushcha’s “The Wounded,” hangs another painting called “Blue Sky on Golden Wheat Fields.” The painting recalls the Ukrainian flag.

One year after a Moscow museum ran a provocative art exhibit challenging the sanctity of Russian Orthodox Christianity, two museum officials and three artists are facing charges of up to five ...

Joshua Yaffa reports on what’s been lost in the cultural scene of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, as artists must submit to the state’s needs and interests or face retribution.