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 ...

“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 ...

Almagul Menlibayeva looks at AI as a way to reflect the biases of its creators.

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.” ...

Art: Red Realism. 2 minute read. ... Only occasionally, beneath the pictures’ painful precision and the dutiful glorification of the Soviet paradise, was there a glimpse of real feeling.

The conversion of a Soviet-era cinema into the Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture by British architect Asif Khan is underway in Kazakhstan.

The documentary about the lasting impact of a former Soviet nuclear test site in Kazakhstan will world premiere on Sunday at CPH:DOX, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Polls are open in Kazakhstan Sunday for a landmark referendum on building the country’s first nuclear power plant, confronting the country's painful legacy as a testing ground ...