Ivan Vazov, born in 1850 to a wealthy merchant family in Sopot, a village before Bulgaria achieved liberation from Ottoman ...

Beneath the Sky and Sea,” new paintings by Louise Haynes Hall, are on view in the Main Gallery. • “Playing House” is a ...

Blending socialist realism with pop art, Hung Liu made paintings that interrogate the myths of immigration and Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

The next stage of the reconstruction of the town's House of Culture is taking place in Ostrov near Karlovy Vary. A group of North Bohemian restorers is dismantling unique glass chandeliers from the ...

In 1932, when the term “Socialist Realism” was officially used for the first time, all artistic organizations in Soviet Russia were dissolved, to be replaced by the Artists’ Union of the USSR, ...

Double Vision, the first exhibition of the newly formed Warehouse Dallas Art Foundation, opens a new chapter for one of the city’s premier venues for contemporary art. The foundation, a nonprofit ...

At the time, the Soviet Pavilion was dominated by socialist realism—heroic workers, idyllic villages ... named it one of the highlights of the exhibition. But it wasn’t just his paintings. With a ...

Set against mountains, desert plains, and the cobalt blue skies one finds at high elevations, Chloe West’s striking oil paintings merge Dutch Golden Age iconographies with ... The artist taps into ...

Research interests My research interests lie in Soviet and post-Soviet literature and culture, Stalinism, Socialist Realism, Soviet national literatures, Russian and Soviet film, critical theory and ...