When they met, Salmina was the curator of drawings at the Hermitage Museum in what was then Leningrad and Haskell was the ...

Still Russia’s most significant secular holiday, Victory Day on May 9 honors the enormous wartime sacrifices of the Soviet ...

Big on history, architecture and – latterly – fine food, this often overlooked city is ideal for a budget weekend away ...

"I am a religious Russian Orthodox person and I understand ‘religion’ in the literal meaning of the word, as ‘re-ligio’, that ...

Many young people in Nigeria have attempted to break the Guinness World Record in recent years. At least seven Nigerians have ...

In our age of cosmetic fantasy, a dramatic love story between two bespectacled art historians sounds implausible. But add in ...

Due to open in September, the Tselinny Center and the Almaty Museum of the Arts are both financed by Kazakh entrepreneurs ...

In bronze, he glorified figures like Peter the Great and Vladimir Putin, often to the public’s distaste. Some works, like a ...

The war film festival, organised with the support of Mosfilm, will be held at the Aries Plex from May 3. The films include ...

Zurab Tsereteli, the Georgian-born sculptor whose colossal, often contentious works became fixtures of Moscow's skyline and ...

Years ago, Vladimir Kanevsky’s floral sculptures started turning up in Manhattan’s most elegant living rooms. Now his work is ...

A look at the threats the Great Lakes now face as a result of budget and staffing cuts at related U.S. federal agencies, as ...