The Soviet Dis-Union: Socialist Realist and Nonconformist Art is on display at the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis thru August 19th. Gallery Fullscreen Slideshow Previous Slide ...

The year 2014 could be considered the year of socialist realism. Early in the year, Sotheby's auction house held a non-commercial exhibition in London called Soviet Art.Soviet Sport.

Trained in socialist realism before her flight to the U.S., Hung Liu made paintings that interrogate the myths of immigration and Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

Not least among Vasily Grossman’s great achievements as a Soviet writer was his ability to fashion a true art form out of the procrustean genre of socialist realism. His technique was as simple ...

Radiator Arts continues to energize the Long Island City art community. Its mission of showcasing new and emerging artists and curators makes for a remarkably varied program from show to show, but ...

Socialist Realism, the officially enforced style of art under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, is undergoing a revival in Russia — and the Russian Orthodox Church is playing a key supporting role.

Socialist Realism retained a hold on Soviet cinema till the death of Stalin in 1953. ... art works that present an Utopian vision of communism are seen with a skeptical eye.

It’s a story of odd, if not fortuitous, coincidence. In early fall 2008, Max Ginsburg journeyed by bus with several friends from his home on Manhattan’s West Side with the goal of getting the ...

George Balanchine left his home in Russia at the age of 20, in 1924, escaping the Stalinist repression that would surely have crushed him as it crushed (or destroyed) so many other creative geniuses.