"Barge Haulers on the Volga," painted in the 1870's is considered one of the masterpieces of Russian art. Seen in this country for the first time, it shows the stirring of revolutionary ideas.

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 ...

There are no religious themes. All winter holidays including Christmas were banned by the Soviet government in 1925. ... The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis in 2013 and 2014.

An art project to shake the lockdown blues has become an online sensation as pent-up Russian speakers from across the globe reenact classic artwork to pass the time amid the pandemic.

One of the most famous images of Christ in Russian art, and one of the first attempts to portray him as a real person. Here he is not a saint tempted by evil forces, but an ordinary man full of ...

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.

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 ...

Russia’s authoritarian politics may be gray and conservative. But Russia modern art scene is colorful and eccentric. A Lenin head is offered up on a dinner table. A pig-like policeman swills a ...

A painting of Christopher Columbus on his maiden voyage to the New World was the top seller at Sotheby's Russian art auction but overall sales were weakened by the economic climate.

Club of Friends, a new exhibition of Timur Novikov's New Artists and the New Academy just finished a successful run at London's Calvert 22 Gallery. In ...

02/17/2023 February 17, 2023. A New York museum has renamed an Edgar Degas painting to recognize its Ukrainian, not Russian, theme, and acknowledged formerly Russia-designated artists as Ukrainian.