The first room of the Neue Galerie’s “Russian Modernism: Cross-Currents of German and Russian Art, 1907 – 1917” (on view through August 24), takes us back to a vanished world. This is a ...

With the rise of Stalinism, art schools were closed, exhibitions cancelled and celebrations staged that “lost the novelty and spontaneity of the first years of Bolshevik power.” In their place ...

The oldest almost-free-for-all of U.S. art was held last week in Manhattan. To the 25th exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, 535 artists from all over the U.S., some professionals ...

Soviet art was intended to serve the ideological ideals of communism, and many artists obliged. We selected 10 works that were used to instruct people in how to live properly and love the Motherland.

In 1918, the Bolsheviks took power and proceeded to confiscate Morozov’s art collection. In 1933, The Night Cafe was sold to American collector Stephen Clark, who donated it to Yale in 1961.

We have rebranded as 'Gateway to Russia' and now offer even more articles and resources about Russia. A whole day is nowhere near enough to cover the endless halls of the two huge buildings of ...

Mikhail Sokolov’s 1930s painting of Lenin arriving by train in Petrograd inserts a character who was not there in real life: Joseph Stalin, who appears standing behind the Bolshevik leader.