Artist's work takes shine off glossy Russian image
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Artist and photographer  Ivan Ushkov takes dark pictures that set out to puncture the  glossy image of Russia that the country's leaders try to  project.
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Vandals painted swastikas on more than 100 Jewish and Tatar gravestones in a central Russian city and overturned many others &#151; the latest in a string of anti-Semitic, racist and hate crime vandalism across the nation, police officials said Wednesday.
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Russia's culture minister on Wednesday said new British laws providing legal immunity for some contested artworks would clear the way for a planned exhibit of Russian art in London next month.
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Art closely follows life in a new  Russian film about a hermitic monk with a guilty past played by  a 1980s Russian rock singer who shunned society after a  religious transformation.
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To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the departure of Soviet troops from what used to be East Germany, a German artist has mounted a major exhibit using Red Army detritus unearthed from long-abandoned ...
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Key graphics product touched up with tools to mimic oils and watercolors.
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Their watercolors have focused wide attention on a vulnerable population in the booming Russian capital.
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Arts & entertainment: At last, Russia's treasures have arrived at the Royal Academy. Adrian Searle gives his verdict
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For 25 years, Mohammed Akbar Salam painted the style that he and his colleagues knew &#151; realism. Under the ultra-restrictive Taliban regime, depictions of the human figure were forbidden, and their work shriveled to an austere repertoire of calligraphy and still life.
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Mention of North Korea inevitably summons up images of nuclear weapons, Kim Jong-Il and starving children, but a Briton has put on display a side of the reclusive country rarely seen -- its artwork.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - Artist and photographer Ivan Ushkov takes dark pictures that set out to puncture the glossy image of Russia that the country's leaders try to project.
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Off-color language by young Russians is proving a money-spinner for authorities in a southern region.
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A show within the show: puffed hair, masked faces and even a light sculpture.
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A 16-billion-pixel image of the famous painting goes online after a challenging digitization process.
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The minimalist work of Dan Flavin and his use of light, as seen at the National Gallery in Washington, has lasted because he is a gifted formalist.
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A Russian province goes for a youth infusion the old-fashioned way.
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Damien Hirst, the superstar British artist best known for his pickled displays of large animal corpses, launched his controversial work in Russia's capital on Monday at a private viewing with a difference.