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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since the early 1990s, I’ve been collecting Chinese revolutionary posters. You’ve probably seen the ones I mean: vivid depictions of the country’s workers with muscles bulging, factories churning out ...