Art World Russian Teens Increase Lenin’s Appeal One Selfie at a Time Tear Down Lenin Statue Russian Performance Artists Arrested for Exorcizing Lenin Planned Statue of By Sarah Cascone, Aug 8, 2015
Art World Ukrainian Artist Transforms Lenin Statue into Darth Vader—What? A Ukrainian artist has transformed a statue of communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in Odessa into By Henri Neuendorf, Oct 27, 2015
Art & Exhibitions New Polish Fountain Portrays a Peeing Vladimir Lenin The industrial town of Nowa Huta was founded by post-war communist leaders who hoped the city would become By Sarah Cascone, Jun 16, 2014
Art & Exhibitions Once Buried in a Sandpit, Head of Lenin Statue to Go on View at Berlin Museum months of arduous research and negotiations, as organizers learned that when Germany confronts its post-World By Henri Neuendorf, Sep 11, 2015
Art World Patriotic Ukrainians Tear Down Lenin Statue The critical moment was widely captured on social media (see the Huffington Post report). By Sarah Cascone, Sep 29, 2014
Art World Russian Performance Artists Arrested for Exorcizing Lenin The pair had performed an exorcism on Vladimir Lenin’s mausoleum on the Red Square. By Henri Neuendorf, Jan 21, 2015
Opinion In Cold War Hungary, Balint Szombathy Poked Fun at Lenin by Parading Him THE DAILY PIC (#1797): This image is one of a series that document a 1972 performance called “Lenin in By Blake Gopnik, May 25, 2017
Art World Leon Trotsky’s Historic Istanbul Home for Sale Vladimir Lenin Russian Performance Artists Arrested for Exorcizing Lenin By Henri Neuendorf, Aug 4, 2015
Archaeology & History The Hunt: An Imperial Family’s Fabergé Eggs, Still at Large Although Lenin had authorized the doing away of the czar and his family, his appreciation for fine art By Tim Brinkhof, May 5, 2024
Law & Politics Horny Satan Statue Causes Panic, Confusion in Canada , and Oklahoma's Satanic courthouse monument (see "New Polish Fountain Portrays a Peeing Vladimir Lenin By Sarah Cascone, Sep 13, 2014
Law & Politics Ukrainian Filmmaker Sentenced to 20 Years in High-Security Russian Penal Colony The European Film Academy posted a signed letter with 1,000 supporters, including Mr. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 26, 2015
Art & Exhibitions This Exhibition Dedicated to the Boldest Hue Will Have You Seeing Red Andy Warhol, Red Lenin (1987). Photo courtesy of Nassau County Museum of Art. By Adam Schrader, Jul 20, 2024
Auctions ’s Shuttered KGB Museum Is Auctioning Off Its Entire Collection of Spycams, Poison Containers, and Lenin also a spy ring with a hidden camera (estimated at up to $7,000) and a half-ton stone sculpture of Lenin By Brian Boucher, Feb 9, 2021
Art World Artist Reimagines World Leaders As Hipsters Take a gander at his website and you'll find Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin sporting ear gauges By Christie Chu, Feb 3, 2015
Art World See the Eerie, Foreboding Final Paintings of 10 Famous Artists, From Andy Warhol to Vincent van Gogh Andy Warhol Red Lenin (1987) Red Lenin (1987). Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art. By Caroline Goldstein & Eileen Kinsella, Jun 27, 2019
Art World 10 Last-Minute Art-Inspired Halloween Costumes Vladimir Lenin as Darth Vader: This is a tricky one. By Cait Munro, Oct 29, 2015
Art World Polish City of Gdańsk Gets New Contemporary Art Museum Related stories: New Polish Fountain Portrays a Peeing Vladimir Lenin By Henri Neuendorf, Sep 3, 2015
Art & Exhibitions Kazakhstan Takes Down Statue Ridiculed as ‘Hobbit Selfie’ Other bizarre statues in the news lately include Poland's peeing Vladimir Lenin, which replaced a more By Sarah Cascone, Jun 26, 2014
Art World Planned Statue of Vladimir the Great in Moscow Outrages Locals and Irks Ukrainians (See Patriotic Ukrainians Tear Down Lenin Statue). By Henri Neuendorf, Jun 12, 2015
Art World Can the World Monuments Fund Save Moscow’s Iconic Shukhov Tower? Commissioned by Vladimir Lenin, the tower’s structure involves six stacked hyperboloids. By Brian Boucher, Mar 22, 2016