As Russia continues to bomb the city of Odesa, a debate is raging about whether and when to rename streets and dismantle ...

THE LAST TWO ‘RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE EXHIBITIONS’ I reported on turned out to be not very Avant-Garde at all: a show in Mantua in 2013 (which had at least a handful of works that might have been ...

Few artists embody the myth of the tormented genius as profoundly as Niko Pirosmanashvili (c.1866–1918), the self-taught ...

The new show in the French capital uncovers the breadth of art censorship that the Nazi regime undertook under the guise of ...

For a small country that’s been tossed around a fair bit, the Czech Republic (or Czechia) has a well-developed sense of humour. During a year spent working in Czechoslovakia (as was) from ...

Before the Mexican artist Diego Rivera became famous for his monumental, socially engaged murals, he traveled to Europe and ...

In the 1960s, leftist filmmakers from France to Japan revolutionized the documentary. Anti-fascism was not just the heritage ...

A new book by Morgan Falconer argues that artists working today should take inspiration from Futurism, Dada and other art ...

Artists such as Marinetti, Duchamp and their followers hoped to destroy fine art as a cultural institution. They wound up ...