Hultén, the director of the National Museum of Modern Art from 1973 to 1981, saw art as a means of changing the world. He ...

Instead of ‘socialist realism’, we have ‘market realism’. The difference being that it is a self-imposed straitjacket. ‘Market realist’ literature needs to be resisted every bit as strongly as the old ...

Zohran Mamdani is a left-wing daydream of a New York City mayoral candidate. He’s young—33—and proudly socialist. His campaign ads call to mind a mashup of TikTok clips and hip-hop videos ...

Lenin and Trotsky have long been dead, but their efforts to erase history through revolutions live on. Today, the erasure is ...

The latest marquee exhibition to open at M+, Hong Kong’s museum of contemporary visual culture, is “Canton Modern: Art and Visual Culture, 1900s-1970s”, a sweeping exploration of Guangdong ...

Explore art saved from destruction in Karakalpakstan's Savitsky Museum. Discover rare artefacts and paintings in a hidden cultural gem.

Explore art saved from destruction in Karakalpakstan's Savitsky Museum. Discover rare artefacts and paintings in a hidden cultural gem.

Explore art saved from destruction in Karakalpakstan's Savitsky Museum. Discover rare artefacts and paintings in a hidden cultural gem.

Sargent and Paris, an exhibition on view through August 3 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, focuses on this crucial period in the artist’s career.

Servile Pen. In 1931, at Stalin’s urging, Gorky returned to Russia. He was set to work glorifying the slave-labor projects that were reshaping Soviet society and killing millions in the process.