The year is 1964, the place Almaty, capital of the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan. To celebrate 10 years of Nikita Khrushchev’s policy of tselina—a campaign to develop the “virgin” territory of the ...

When the project to transform Tselinny, the 1960s modernist Soviet cinema in Almaty, Kazakhstan, into a multidisciplinary arts venue first started taking shape, seismic engineers initially recommended ...

Kazakhstan is transforming launch sites at the world’s first cosmodrome into a tourism hub, aiming to attract 50,000 visitors by 2029 with glamping, hotels, and a children’s camp at the birthplace of ...

A creative artwork combining a glowing neon bat with a realistic bat illustration to show the contrast between fantasy and realism. License plate camera company halts cooperation with federal agencies ...

The ongoing switch from Cyrillic to a Latin-based alphabet in Kazakhstan has been widely presented as a step toward modernization and global integration by Kazakh officials. However, in Russian media, ...

Kazakhstan has chosen Russia's state nuclear firm Rosatom and China’s National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) to lead separate consortiums to build its first nuclear power plants. This marks the country’s ...

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 ...

ZANESVILLE ‒ Artist Paul Emory is returning to the Zanesville Museum of Art after an 18-year absence, with help from Aaron Thompson, the museum's exhibit coordinator. Emory's work doesn't quite create ...

Externally, the building will feature a striking facade of fiber-reinforced concrete panels, some with undulating vertical fins and others animated by petroglyph-like abstract motifs. These designs ...

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser's double life as a Soviet spy because palace officials didn’t want to add to her worries, newly declassified documents ...