Los Angeles artist Guadalupe Rosales reconfigures a dazzling archive of her hometown in the 1990s. It's a show that should ...

The first US retrospective of Shahn's work in nearly 50 years, highlighting the social realist artist and activist's enduring relevance, is on view at the Jewish Museum through October 12.

"I want readers to know that choosing yourself isn’t selfish — it’s necessary," says author Yrsa Daley-Ward of her debut ...

For a decade or so on either side of World War II, Shahn’s achievements made him an art star, earning him a major show at the ...

A new retrospective on the social realist artist presents the diversity of his career, and hints to how his Jewishness ...

The Village Voice review of painter Dianna Settles exhibition, “Enemy of the Century,” notes its blend of politics and human-scale utopias.

For better or worse, it reveals how they see themselves as an artist, sometimes far removed ... British cinema’s preeminent name in social-realist protest cinema. Like Laura Carreira’s recent ...

They both dwell in the world of hyper-realism, a painting style that is anything but in vogue in the current age, and something not frequently spotlighted at such serious art galleries.

This technique, more conspicuous in Liu’s paintings than her illustration-derived work, was termed “weeping realism” by Liu and her spouse, art critic Jeff Kelley. One of the largest pieces ...

Influenced by the social realist painter Ben Shahn as well as Dutch and Flemish masters, Segedin eschewed the nonfigurative movement in American expressionist art in the 1950s, instead retaining ...

The works in “William Gropper: Artist of the People,” a sharply political ... and his concerns about social justice in the principal era covered by this show, from 1932 to 1957.