A steel gray fuselage with a bright red star painted on the side tail was about as ornate as the Soviets got when painting ...

Since the collapse of the USSR almost 30 years ago, attitudes toward Socialist Realism - the predominant artistic style of the Soviet period - has kept changing among art historians.

The space race – rockets, satellites, record-breaking cosmonauts – was a way for Soviet artists to adopt avant-garde ideas under the cloak of propaganda.

The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., which has the largest collection of Soviet nonconformist art in the world, created the exhibition, “Komar and Melamid: A ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. "Worker" by Igor A. Razdrogin, 1970, oil on canvas. (Image courtesy of The Museum of Russian Art) Florence Brammer is a visual artist and occasional ...

This Former Soviet Art Duo Crafts Worlds of Whimsy and Delight Miniature models, the wellspring of the celebrated large installations of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, are at the Hirshhorn ...

Art & Exhibitions Soviet-Era Art Luminary Karlo Kacharava Is Finally Emerging From Obscurity. The Georgian artist is subject of a survey at S.M.A.K. contemporary art museum in Ghent, Belgium.

More Soviet Union paintings will also be auctioned in March. Follow BBC Gloucestershire on Facebook , X and Instagram . Send ...

Offering a singular perspective on Russia’s current pariah status in much of the world is Gaukur Ulfarsson’s “Soviet Barbara,” probably the most enjoyable — as opposed to depressing ...