That balance would be even further emphasized in the case of an ethnically specific religion like Russian Orthodoxy. Much like Anglicanism can never be divorced from its English roots, nor can the ...

The leader of Russia’s Orthodox church ... “the purpose of [such] art is not to advance humankind…but to destroy [it].” The art cognoscenti, the Russian patriarch contends, try to ...

Vladimir Denshchikov's Russian Orthodox icons were put on display at the Simferopol Art Museum in the Crimea on Tuesday. Denshchikov has patented the new style of 'macramé collage' to make the ...

Top art gallery directors in Russia have denounced ... calling it "an attempt to portray the Russian Orthodox Church as primitive and aggressive". But he also criticised the "nervous" public ...

to the Russian Orthodox Church. The church said on May 15 that the decision was made after "multiple requests by believers." Last year, the arts museum gave the icon to the church to use in a ...