The famous wall painting from Çatalhöyük depicts tightly clustered domestic houses beneath an erupting volcano. Photo/Illustration by Asya Denk. By Erdem Denk The theme for an exhibition that opened on June 4, 2026, at Ankara University’s Faculty of Political Science (Mülkiye), World’s First City Plan/Map, as part of my Arkeopolitics initiative, was met with reservations by a group of students from the Middle East Technical University’s faculty of architecture. They questione

Signing the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR, painting, Stepan Dudnik USSR -- Daily LIFT #1967

Now Who Swept the Snow Off the Path for Me?, Painting in Chinese traditional style, Liu Hsiao-Ii, People's Republic of China 1974 -- Daily LIFT #1945

Insulators, V. M. Borovko, USSR 1971 -- Daily LIFT #1928 Marvelous neo-socialist realist piece portraying working women.

The People's Communes Are Good, school poster, Rui Guangting, People's Republic of China, 1958 -- Daily LIFT #1891 The poster's title is from a quote by Mao.

People Who Conquer Nature, Shih Pang-Hua, People's Republic of China, 1966 -- Daily LIFT #1863

Shantung Sisters Learn to Plant Rice, Pai Yi-ju, People's Republic of China, 1966 -- Daily LIFT #1862

Gift from Leningrad, painting, N. Veselova, V. Zagonek, A. Rubin and Y. Tulin, USSR c. 1958 -- Daily LIFT #1850 From the Soviet Press 1959: "Gift from Leningrad depicts the assembly of a turbine for the Tsimlyanskaya Hydroelectric Station. The big dams built in the last decade to harness the power of the country's rivers have served as background for many paintings. Thousands of young people came to work on these gigantic projects . More often than not the construction sites

Spring Festival, painting, Huang Yung-Yu, People's Republic of China, 1956 -- Daily LIFT #1847

The Workers' Cultural Palace, woodcut, Ku Yuan, People's Republic of China, 1952 -- Daily LIFT #1842

For Peace on Earth, Soviet peace activists rally, 1983, painting USSR, Eduard Belagurov -- Daily LIFT #1831

We are wired to find faces everywhere, and this instinct reveals how our perception and our environment can influence each other. Tree with a face, Heald Green by Benjamin Shaw, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Irina Matuzava Imagine that you notice an unfamiliar male face out of the corner of your eye. You turn to look at it, but it turns out that you perceived a face-like visual cue—a tree adorned with several hollows that appear like “eyeholes.” This kind of accident

Keeping His Youth, Gouache, Li Ping-kang, People's Republic of China c. 1975 -- Daily LIFT #1811 From the PRC Press: In "Keeping His Youth", gouache, during a break in field work a grey-haired commander explains quotations from Marx, Engels and Lenin on the dictatorship of the proletariat to a group of young people with education who have gone to work on a farm. He typifies veteran revolutionaries who are helping to bring up a new generation to carry on the revolution.

A meeting of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee, painting, B. Yohanson, USSR -- Daily LIFT #1780

Fragment from the painting Soldiers, Adolf Konstantinopolsky, USSR 1960 -- Daily LIFT #1756 Konstantinopolsky, a Ukrainian artist, fought...

Chairman Mao goes to Anyuan, oil painting, People's Republic of China, 1968 -- Daily LIFT #1745 From the PRC press: "In autumn of 1921,...

Text and photos by Katherin Hormigó Rubio, translated from the Spanish "Culture represents the soul and shield of the Cuban nation. Our...

View of the Kremlin, watercolour, USSR Nikolay Volkov (1897-1974) -- Daily LIFT #1723

From the deserts of California to the forests of Belgium, these iconic music festivals showcase the power of sound to bridge cultures,...

For TONYC, theater isn’t just for entertainment; it’s a powerful tool for social change. Screenshot from a performance, 2024 By Caitlin...