EditorialA touch of realism is added with a tape across what would have been, if not for its cancellation, the finish line of the New York City Marathon, in New York’s Central Park, Nov. 1, 2020. (Sarah Blesener/The New York Times)
EditorialBudapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution. Szobor Park in the outskirts of Budapest, now houses a collection of Communist statuary, mostly in the style called " Socialist Realism" .
EditorialAustrian painter Friedensreich Hundertwasser visits painter-colleague Rudolf Hausner in his studio. Hausner explains one of his " Fantastic Realism" -paintings. Vienna,1962.
EditorialA worker sleeping in a vacant lot in the new town of Nova Huta. A poem by Adam Vaszik, describing the all-pervading sadness in the new industrial settlements, with their whores and drunkards, was criticized as " bourgeois realism". Nova Huta,...