In recent years, the name Renpei Geng has become synonymous with groundbreaking work in experimental cinema, winning acc ...

The late artist’s painting, on show at the Barbican, positions ordinary people and ordinary life as a thing to be cherished ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, a versatile and influential writer, explored realism and social issues in his vast body of work.

For the average viewer, there are unwritten rules about art. Art is only art when it is in a museum, when it is centuries old ...

Disguised as social realism, this is cinema of affirmation cloaked in the language ... That confront the audience, rather than embrace them? If art is meant to mirror society, then what society are we ...

McKenzie’s views are almost entirely from the interior of institutional buildings. For “Displays of Power,” at David B. Smith ...

A superb cowboy study credited to Catalan artist Albert Fabà, simply titled “ Oeste ” (“West”), is currently up for sale on ...

The show includes 175 artworks and objects from the 1930s to the 1960s, divided into sections dedicated to Shahn’s early Social Realism; art made for the US government’s New Deal agencies ...

A special art tour program at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is bringing light and connection to people living with ALS and ...

Barry McGee's exhibition at Perrotin presents a bounty of sculptures, paintings, prints, and assemblages reimagining everyday ...

Sekoto’s art is characterised by his social realism, capturing the lives of ordinary people and the realities of South Africa’s racial and social inequalities. He was influenced by his ...