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 ...

Scattered throughout the dark and haunting locations of Reanimal are well-hidden red-colored propaganda posters. When interacting with these posters, not only ...

The CIA secretly used modern art to fight Soviet influence. Abstract Expressionism was promoted as proof of freedom and creativity. Funding was hidden through museums and foundations. Artists never ...

Last month, following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit, celebrated contemporary artist Nikas Safronov debuted in India with a solo show featuring over 100 artworks. His immersive exhibition ...

An exhibit on the work of Arthur Szyk explores how propaganda functioned in a world very different from ours. I remember being freaked out, and fascinated, by my parents’ copy of Hans Christian ...

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 ...

The age-old question of whether works created with explicit ideological intent can achieve artistic greatness has long divided critics, artists, and audiences. From Leni Riefenstahl’s films glorifying ...

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 ...

Much like the morality of art, it is absolutely futile to discuss whether a piece of art is “propaganda” – but that hasn’t stopped critics from convulsing in unison over Aditya Dhar’s magnum opus ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michael Mertens, Susanne Freytag, Ralf Dörper, and Claudia Brücken of Propaganda. (Credit: Peter Brown) Imagine an album that ...