The “Positron” (1976–77) by Latvian artist Valdis Celms operated a bit like a disco ball, flashing various colors of light as the goliath metal orb rotated. These patterns were intended to boost ...

Erik Bulatov, the Soviet-born artist who became a key figure in the underground movement of the 1970s and 80s, known for ...

BRUSSELS — In 1931, the Russian Futurist poet Vasily Kamensky enlisted the help of Konstantin Bor Ramensky to illustrate the cover of his latest book, Youth of Mayakovsky. It was a complicated ...

TOWARD the end of the tenth century, the envoys of Vladimir, Great Prince of Kiev, were led by the emperor himself into the cathedral at Byzantium. They heard gravely chanting voices and saw the ...

In the latest indignity suffered by Soviet-era monuments in Bulgaria, unknown artists Saturday transformed a huge sculpture into a colossal version of a traditional lucky charm in the eastern European ...

MOSCOW (AP) — The sale of nine Soviet-era masterpieces that fetched $3 million at a London auction in 2014 is causing uproar in Moscow’s art community, where it was largely perceived as a theft of the ...

Moscow • The sale of nine Soviet-era masterpieces that fetched $3 million at a London auction in 2014 is causing uproar in Moscow's art community, where it was largely perceived as a theft of the ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Vladimir Lysenko’s painted bull stares with flat black eyes like a double-barrel shotgun, one of his horns festooned in a mosaic of bright rectangles, the tip of his tail stretched ...

Leonid Sokov, 71, is recognized as a founder of the Sots Art movement (Soviet pop). (Photo by Zimmerli Art Museum) Leonid Sokov, 71, came into the Zimmerli Museum laughing, his egglike head still ...