THE LAST TWO ‘RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE EXHIBITIONS’ I reported on turned out to be not very Avant-Garde at all: a show in Mantua in 2013 (which had at least a handful of works that might have been ...

Ivan Konstantin Aivazovsky was a Russian-Armenian Romantic painter known for his depictions of seascapes, for which he is considered one of the greatest marine artists in history. He was born on July ...

Lyubov Popova was a prominent Russian artist known for her work in painting, relief, works on paper, designs for the theater, textiles, and typography. Her art is characterized by abstract form and ...

When Ivan Kozlov landed in France with the Kyiv City Ballet on Feb. 23, the drumbeat of a possible Russian attack on Ukraine was growing louder. But he still didn’t think that President Vladimir Putin ...