It has strived to present the very highlights of the modern and contemporary art landscape (obviously, throughout the Soviet era there was a heavy focus on social realism and propaganda but that was inevitable).
However, the journal remains committed to traditional subjects and tested values such as - painting, drawing, sculpture, design, crafts.
One part of it is our long-time loyal, professional reader, the other is a new generation of well-off, open-minded and enthusiastic audience who want to be trendy and current.
The issue typically comprises interviews with artists; expert articles with in-depth analysis of the theme; overviews of the key world exhibitions; and plenty of illustrations.
At different times for a magazine written and published articles by such well-known critics and artists such as: John Onians, James Elkins, B. E. Groys, M. Gnedovskiy, M. Guelman, E. Tar, AV Erofeev, AV Ippolitov, KM Malitskaya, VV Patsukov, AG Rappaport, L. Rempel, Stanislavsky, V. Fomin, N. Iljine, A. Lebedev, I. Markin, V. Tsereteli.