Russian avant garde

The Monument to the Third International was a grand un-built monumental building. It was planned to be erected in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, as the headq…

The works of this great artist, photographer, and designer grace probably every 20th-century art museum in the world.

One of ten lithographs from El Lissitzky’s 1923 portfolio that pays tribute to a 1920 restaging of the avant-garde Cubo-Futurist opera “Victory Over the Sun” Installation view of “A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of he Russian Avant-Garde” The Museum of Modern Art New York, New York December 3, 2016 – March 12, 2017

A peculiar thing happened in Russia in the early 1920s. Abstract art, often considered the pinnacle of elitism and high art, was instead employed by artists as a testing ground for ideas that promised…

There had been hopes German trial would help crack down on market many fear is awash with fakes

In a spate of recent incidents, experts have questioned the authenticity of works said to have been painted by the Russian masters of the period.

The Bolsheviks understood the value of the new art of cinema, even Vladimir Lenin himself considered that it is “the most important of the a...

Susan Pack's 'Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde' celebrates the experimental film posters from the pre-Stalin Soviet Union.