As David Sheff’s new biography reveals, decades of suspicion aimed at the provocative artist, musician and widow have ...

When John Lennon brought Yoko Ono into the spotlight in 1968, she instantly became, as David Sheff phrases it, “one of the world’s most hated women”. “Her history,” as the art critic Cristín Leach put ...

They talked about the fighting in Ukraine, of course. But the U.S. and Russian presidents also chatted about improving ...

In the spring of 1980, six years before Mikhail Gorbachev introduced “glasnost” to the Soviet Union, Modernism gallery brought Russian avant-garde [1910-1930] art to the West Coast of the United ...

A show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago challenges the timeworn critics’ contention that painting is dead, expanding the idea of what painting can be. In the spring of 1980, six years before ...

Donne’s triumphant ‘Death, thou shalt die’ has nothing on the apophatic reversals of László Krasznahorkai’s metaphysics, where art exposes the scrim between ... from its seventh issue (in February ...

For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, Mr. Gordievsky, a senior KGB officer, ...

He was a double agent who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to Britain for a decade.

In the 1980s, his intelligence helped avoid a dangerous ... In 1984, Gordievsky briefed soon-to-be Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ahead of his first visit to the U.K. — and also briefed the ...

In the early 1980s he was able to warn the West that ... Margaret Thatcher in her early contacts with the reformist Mikhail Gorbachev, whose ascent to power helped bring the Cold War to a close.

In the 1980s, his intelligence helped avoid a dangerous ... In 1984, Gordievsky briefed soon-to-be Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ahead of his first visit to the U.K. — and also briefed the ...