Russian President Vladimir Putin presented a portrait of Donald Trump to Steve ... Putin's previous gifts to US Presidents included a writing box for Joe Biden and porcelain plates for Barack ...

The treatments, like the 1970s architecture and, one suspects, many of the clientele, have barely changed in the 50-plus years since the Soviet-era facility was built. Even with the war raging ...

HAIFA, Israel — Blood is Blamed is the title of a book by the Jewish-born Soviet writer Alexander Borschagovsky about the case of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, a Soviet social organization ...

To give credit to the writer, it does take chutzpah to venture into such a long-festering cliché of a theme, especially in a first book. A recent successful experiment with a similar subject was ...

Flannery O’Connor’s 1952 self-portrait is the star of an exhibition ... along with regional oil paintings from the peak of her writing career, the artworks might shed new light on a literary ...

But the artist didn’t stop with the postman: He painted the entire family, making 26 portraits of Roulin and his wife, Augustine, and their three children. It’s “one of the most impressive ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait of an African prince that was lost after World War II is on view at TEFAF Maastricht, bearing a €15 million ($16.4 million) price tag. When a collector presented the ...

Sofia Gubaidulina, 2021. She was part of a group of important composers in the Soviet Union, including Arvo Pärt, Alfred Schnittke and Edison Denisov, who found disfavor with the authorities but ...

“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the ...