Socialist realism: the state as the author -- Avant-garde and kitsch -- Alienation as a status: Ilya Kabakov and the Collective Actions Group -- Sots art: the Russian deconstructive force -- Aptart: ...

Did Joseph Stalin invent modern marketing? That’s the thesis of a new show at Frankfurt’s Schirn Kunsthalle, which argues that the techniques the dictator used to promote communism in the 1930s ...

Under the doctrinaire rules of Soviet social realism, a painter with a hankering for nudes had to hie himself to the nearest gym, coyly disguise his subject as a bather or a physical-culture ...