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Uncovering the Queer Histories of Workers’ Movements

Avatar photo by Billie Anania August 17, 2022April 17, 2023

As bodily autonomy and workers’ rights remain under constant and often intertwined threat, The Work of Love, the Queer of Labor reminds us of what is still at stake.

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New Book Reveals the British Security Service’s Surveillance of Major Artists 

Avatar photo by Billie Anania July 7, 2022July 7, 2022

Red List lists a vast range of painters, sculptors, filmmakers, writers, and academics who were tracked by the MI5 for their perceived political affiliations.

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Dora García Documents Networks of Feminist Survival in Mexico City

Avatar photo by Billie Anania April 12, 2022May 5, 2022

In two shorts showing as part of García’s exhibition at Amant, she explores the unfinished revolution of diplomat Alexandra Kollontai.

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The Elegant Minimalism of Soviet-Era Swimming Pools

by Elena Goukassian November 13, 2017February 23, 2018

Photographer Maria Svarbova focuses on the Communist-era swimming pools of her native Slovakia.

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The Graphic Persuasiveness of 20th-Century Communist Posters

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 19, 2017May 19, 2017

The first major survey of communist poster art considers the visual legacy of propaganda graphic design in nations around the world.

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Communist China’s Cheery Propaganda Posters

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne January 14, 2016January 14, 2016

In the thousands of propaganda posters produced in China between the birth of the People’s Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s, the beaming face of Chairman Mao Zedong watches over a surreal utopia.

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Soviet Symbols Going Up and Coming Down

by Laura C. Mallonee July 24, 2015July 24, 2015

It’s been nearly a quarter century since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, but the physical reminders of Central and Eastern Europe’s communist past are still provoking controversy.

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The Bleak Banality of Shopping in Communist Europe

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 23, 2015March 23, 2015

“In a cityscape largely without commercial seduction, the banality of the shop windows underscored a real cultural difference between East and West,” photographer David Hlynsky writes in his introduction to Window-Shopping Through the Iron Curtain.

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Picturing a Communist Revolution in the US

by Becca Rothfeld February 16, 2015February 18, 2015

Different artists disagree as to how communist convictions are best or most effectively visualized, and the best part of The Left Front is the methodological tension that underwrites the varied approaches on display.

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Artists Confront the Uncomfortable Legacy of Lenin

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian January 23, 2015January 26, 2015

This week, two men made headlines when they doused the tomb of the Soviet Union’s first leader Vladimir Lenin with holy water while reportedly shouting “Rise up and leave!”

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How Hungary’s Painted Homes Rebelled Against the Socialist System

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 11, 2014April 23, 2015

As a reaction to the bleak uniformity of suburban housing in post-war Hungary, many homeowners painted their houses in vibrant designs.

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Memories of China: Yang Fudong’s Nostalgic Disillusionment

by Anuradha Vikram November 26, 2013

BERKELEY, Calif. — Yang Fudong is known to chronicle contemporary China’s affluent and disaffected urban youth in atmospheric works that evoke Shanghai cinema of the 1930s golden age.

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