Gerasimov died on April 20, 1964, aged 78, and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. His works are held at the Tretyakov Gallery and in museums in St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Taganrog, ...

During the Cold War, the CIA quietly funded and promoted Abstract Expressionism as a weapon against Soviet ideology, turning modern art into a symbol of Western freedom. While the USSR pushed ...

My first encounter with the Polish conceptual artist Agnieszka Kurant happened by accident. Specifically, it happened on an Amtrak train. It was December of 2024, and I was heading home to Brooklyn ...

Tirana, 26 January 2026 (MIA) — Odise Plaku is a renowned Albanian writer, poet and playwright with a rich and varied oeuvre. He is the author of over 25 books for children and adults and 20 theater ...

Activists on Big Apple college campuses are among those in the US who are peddling propaganda directly from Hamas that “encourage[s] acts of violence against Jews,” a terrifying new study has found.

The Department of Homeland Security is using Norman Rockwell’s art to sell an anti-immigrant message and his family is furious. In this video, journalist Catherine Rampell sits down with Daisy ...

Baroque art was propaganda for the state or for the Church. Baroque art was propaganda — for the state or for the Church. It inspired the masses to believe that the authority of the prince and the ...

Confederate statues have roiled Charlottesville since at least 2016, when Charlottesville High School student Zyahna Bryant petitioned City Council to remove them, a request that culminated in 2017’s ...

Exactly 85 years ago — on Nov. 30, 1939 — the USSR’s aggression against Finland began. This “Winter War,” as it came to be known, was part of the Soviet leadership’s grand plan to divide Eastern ...

You may be familiar with the works of Thomas Hart Benton, the Neosho, Mo.-born painter and muralist who became part of the Regionalist movement in the 1930s and '40s. The son of a congressman, Benton ...