The USSR had some pretty strict rules on what media was permitted under state guidance, and a list published in 1985 showed reasons why acts were banned.

Latvian fire artist Arta Raituma, known for her unique technique of painting with fire and charcoal, is set to conduct a workshop in Kochi on March 23.

A HARD-left union chief with an interest in Soviet propaganda artwork made a £800,000 profit selling his home. Matt Wrack, 62 ...

LONDON (AP) — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets ...

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The initiative, first proposed in 2016, aligns with Ukraine’s ongoing decommunization efforts since 2014 and decolonization ...

Wordplay, tradition and politics swirl around a collective of performers attempting to define ‘contemporary art’ in ...

Meanwhile, the launch of the inaugural Bukhara Biennial later this year will mark a pivotal moment in the country’s emergence ...

Ukrainian painter Mykhailo Boichuk and his circle of socialist artists perished in Stalin’s 1930s repression, destroying much ...

Victoria Lomasko, a graphic artist and muralist, has spent her career documenting how authoritarianism took hold in Vladimir ...

Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made history as the first person to walk in space. The spacewalk lasted 10 minutes. Also, on ...

Sometimes I want to recreate the paintings I left behind,” said Artsiv Lalayan, one of tens of thousands of Armenians displaced by Azerbaijan, “but it’s impossible to recreate what you’ve lost.” ...