The Bolshevik coup in Russia in 1917 is not a milestone for the Ukrainian avant-garde. Tetiana Filevska, an art historian and creative director of the Ukrainian Institute, wrote a letter to the ...

In 1967, in the course of a visit to Moscow, I was entertained one evening in the apartment of a young man who seemed to know a lot about the life of art in the Soviet Union at that time. He may also ...

It’s been a strange season for me, I have to admit. That’s the only excuse I can think of for why, although I usually devour each quarterly issue of Jacobin as soon as I find it in my mailbox, it’s ...

A collection of Russian avant-garde art on display in the new exhibit I Found Malevich, in the Armory Denver now. Photo by Samuel Shaw The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in ...

Organized for tour by International Arts & Artists, Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde is a didactic collection of 77 works, including paintings, photographs, graphics, and sculptures ...

War and revolution often spur in artists visions of radical change. That's what happened in early 20th-century Europe when the Great War and Russian Revolution uprooted life for millions. From the ...

Four years before the revolt that overturned Russia’s political order, the painter Mikhail Larionov called for likeminded Muscovites to spurn convention and affect what we might today call “hipster ...

Days after the Rotterdam Philharmonic broke its 35-year ties with orchestra conductor Valery Gergiev and sacked him, Amsterdam’s Hermitage Museum broke its 30-year ties with world’s largest art museum ...

If great collectors are distinguished by their ability to shape our understanding of art history, then George Costakis (1913-90) must surely rank among one of the greatest. Born in Moscow to Greek ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Vladimir Lysenko’s painted bull stares with flat black eyes like a double-barrel shotgun, one of his horns festooned in a mosaic of bright rectangles, the tip of his tail stretched ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian gallery says one of its security guards has vandalized an avant-garde painting on loan from the country’s top art repository by drawing eyes on the picture’s deliberately ...