On Alexandre Lenoir and the Musée des Monuments Français. The Louvre Museum, that encyclopedic creation of the French Revolution, founded in 1793 and just a five-minute walk from here across the Seine ...

There are careers in the arts that epitomize the spirit of their time in so many salient respects that they attain a kind of mythological status in the eyes of posterity. The life and work of the ...

“There’s either democracy or there’s civil war,” a friend told me the other evening, as we sipped coffee at a cafe on the Nile. Later that night, an artist I was interviewing said, “I’m afraid. I ...

“Revolution,” the exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts devoted to Russian art created between 1917 and 1932, is not, to be frank, a bundle of laughs. And thank god, for it to be otherwise ...

In September 1976, Shaomin Li got the art assignment of his life – it frightened the 19-year-old to death. China’s leader, Chairman Mao Zedong, had died a few days earlier. Li, a soldier in the ...

The centennial show, inspired by a 1932 Soviet exhibition that tracked the first decade and a half of Russia’s post-revolutionary art, was curated by John Milner and Natalia Murray, of the Courtauld ...

But no, the second gallery is dedicated to paintings, photographs and film glorifying the workers who sweated blood in factories and fields to bring to fruition the hopelessly unrealistic plans of ...

The Harvard Art Museums’ “Picasso: War, Combat, and Revolution,” which debuted on Jan. 20 centers around the themes and concepts highlighted in one of the Spanish painter’s most famous works: ...

A Syrian flag hangs outside a window of Knox Hall (all photos by the author) Columbia University’s Knox Hall is quiet. Breaking the Fear Barrier!, an art exhibit of political cartoons, news photos, ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art took an emphatic tone in titling “Revolution!,” an exhibit commemorating a 250th anniversary that I probably need not spell out, and the result is emphatically good. The ...