TOWARD the end of the tenth century, the envoys of Vladimir, Great Prince of Kiev, were led by the emperor himself into the cathedral at Byzantium. They heard gravely chanting voices and saw the ...

The rebellious artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid founded their own artistic movement. They agreed to their first interview together in 20 years. By Sophia Kishkovsky This article is part of ...

As the Russia-Ukraine War undoubtedly impacts arts and culture, monuments to regimes past are being brought back from obscurity and kitsch to symbolize Russian nationalism and triumph. When the USSR ...

Erik Bulatov pictured in 2016 with a large-scale work he created for the Garage Contemporary Art Museum in Moscow Photo: © Garagemca/CC-BY-SA-4.0 Erik Bulatov, the ...

“What I can’t understand,” muttered one London art critic last week, “is that here’s a nation that has just launched the first satellite, and yet they have sent us an exhibition 50 years old.” Said a ...

When I first visited Tbilisi, Georgia, in winter 2018, I was taken to meet Lika Kacharava, and in her small apartment we drank local natural wine, ate homemade fare, and viewed many paintings, ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- Rutgers University is receiving the largest gift in its history. The university announced on Thursday the $34 million collection of Soviet nonconformist art will be ...

SOFIA -- It's hard to miss the giant, 11-meter-tall statue that towers above Plovdiv, standing proud on top of the Bulgarian city's second-highest hill. Named Alyosha, a generic diminutive used to ...