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The nonconformism that sprouted in the cracks was possessed with the dissenting spirit of protest art, embodying the opposition to the Soviet regime. The sea change in Russian modern art at the ...

The Kremlin might not be a fan of contemporary art, but just across the Red Square, Cosmoscow fights for young art in a big way. The Gostiny Dvor, a grand exhibition hall, houses the fair for the ...

Nadya Tolokonnikova, the co-founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot, is back in a prison cell -- but this time, she ...

contemporary art has been in Moscow's sights since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The Russian authorities are increasingly interfering with the programs of the country's museums and art ...

At the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Russian activist is staging Police State – a two-week piece of ...

AES+F is a group of Russian contemporary artists made up of Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky, and Vladimir Fridkes. Their photographs, animations, and videos collage together ...

But those claims have never been proven. The Breus Foundation's Kandinsky Prize is meanwhile aimed at promoting Russian contemporary artists. Its selection of ultranationalist Aleksei Belyayev ...

Russian art curators have reportedly led raids on approximately ... Eastern Iranian nomadic people migrated from Central Asia to modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia between the 7th and 3rd ...