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

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev waves from the Red Square tribune during a ... but also against his despair. (Metropolitan Museum of Art), CC BY Remembering Washington Washington's birthday falls ...

What despots and dictators, jammers and competitors, had not managed to do in 83 years -- what the Soviet Union had failed to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to the UK, has died at home in England. Gordievsky died on March 4 in England, where ...

If you were rocking in the 1980s and 1990s, some of these acts will not only bring up a bit of nostalgia for you, but will also likely have you wondering why you never heard more from them.

Gordievsky died March 4 in England, where he had lived since defecting in 1985. Police said Saturday that they are not treating his death as suspicious. Historians consider Gordievsky one of the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. “You’re next,” said a Russian historian I ...

Destabilizing master signifiers Gorbachev justified his "restructuring" or perestroika by invoking the Soviet Union's founding father, Vladimir Lenin.