Other recently digitized collections include photographs taken by two Americans living in a nascent Soviet Union, and a Union soldier’s private collection of cartes-de-visites of “Officers of Army and ...

Through black-and-white portraits, Belgian artist and filmmaker Nicolas Wieërs reveals the faces and tattoos of men whose ...

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Most view the relationship of Jews to the Soviet Union through the lens of repression and silence. Focusing on an elite group of two dozen Soviet-Jewish photographers, including Arkady Shaykhet, ...

A military parade marking the 80th anniversary of China’s victory has drawn attention to a photo from 66 years ago, when the leaders of North Korea, China, Russia, and Vietnam last stood together. The ...

Collection of 181 works from 1917 through the 1930s examines the role that Soviet photographers, filmmakers and poster artists played in the relationship between art and politics.

Since the dawn of time, people have been fascinated by the idea of traveling to the stars, which is vividly illustrated by utopian and dystopian works of architecture, the visual arts, and ...

A rumor circulating online in May 2025 claimed a photo authentically showed a 1930 Russian or Soviet vehicle called "Tarantaika," or "Boneshaker." However, the picture did not show a Russian ...

In the largest show of his career, Boris Mikhailov casts a mordant eye over 60 years of Ukraine’s history. By Jason Farago PARIS — A new nation needs heroes; but when the mayhem comes suddenly, you ...

Alexandra Makarova's second feature portrays an exiled mother and painter who decides to return to her native Slovakia in the early 1980s after her daughter's father is released from prison. By Jordan ...