Twentieth-Century Paintings from Ukraine” exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art is free to all and on display until June 1, ...

‘Monumental’ paintings from the era of the Soviet Union dating from the 1920s to the early 1990s - all from a single ...

Tirana: A once-secretive villa that housed Albania’s former communist dictator, Enver Hoxha, is now welcoming artists from ...

Many Albanians in Yugoslavia came to see Albania as a promised land, but Albania’s treatment of ethnic Albanian writers and artists from outside its borders was often brutal.

After Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Bazhanov warned about the consequences for contemporary art. “The government will not return to socialist realism but will create a ...

Born on April 12, 1946 in Ningbo, China, he studied at the Shanghai College of Art, where he learned to paint in the Socialist Realist style popularized in the Soviet Union. Shortly after he graduated ...

A remedy to that fact arrived, finally, this month with “Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson,” just opened at the ...

Rubem Valentim (1922-1991), in particular, is a "wonderful discovery", his "ultra-sharp geometric paintings and gleaming ...

Art and politics may seem like mortal enemies ... involvement in a play and get them to take what he called a socialist realist perspective instead— essentially, to think critically about ...

The incendiary films of the late pioneer of African cinema do not merely critique power but discern the social and political ...

By and large, however, this is "a lavish exhibition of bafflingly weak art" – a "weird mishmash of weakly adapted pastiches of European modernism" and "crude socialist realism". Do Amaral's ...