You want effort? Sofia Bell hounded Purdue ball-handlers the length of the floor and was a nuisance all night. You want defensive intensity?... The NCATA’s Athlete of the Week award is calling Matthew ...

Within the studio : drawing pedagogy, European-Soviet transnationalism, and academic realism -- Going into life : the anti-academic impulse, social investigation, and the peasant portrait -- A ...

Kazakh villagers sit in the dark chewing over some astounding news from the town. Someone is coming to take away their only means of survival. “It is, what do you call it, a class struggle, you see,” ...

Blending socialist realism with pop art, Hung Liu made paintings that interrogate the myths of immigration and Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

Joseph Stalin was no great lover of the arts, unlike other Communist leaders, but he recognised their power to stir his people’s souls in the pursuit of his political goals. Stalin and the writer ...

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 ...