“Art is always political,” he shrugged. Shahmardan Comes Out of the Well airs topics that Kazakhstan needs to debate, like the famine and the colonial past, said the playwright. “It’s better to talk ...

The new venue launch coincides with the opening of another institution, the Almaty Museum of Arts, which will house more than 700 artworks by Kazakh and Central Asian artists and opens this summer.

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 ...

Socialist Un-realism. At the time of the New Yorker article, ... Robert Hughes praised the show in Time for nailing the “correct borsht-and-gravy colors of official Soviet art of 30 years ago.” ...

HIROSHIMA -- An exhibition by Karipbek Kuyukov, a Kazakh artist born without arms as a result of exposure to radiation from Soviet nuclear testing, was held late April at the Hiroshima Peace ...