The death of Bazhanov, who founded institutions including the groundbreaking National Centre for Contemporary Art, follows ...

Against this backdrop, as the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan ... but as with all forms of art, it is a work of literary imagination,” Shayer-Petrov said, sitting at his living room table ...

Throughout the former Soviet Union, almost unlimited public money was spent on mosaics to try and liven up the gray, boxy suburbs of the communist world, like this 1975 work, titled Environmental ...