The magazine was established in 1931. Its original title was
Proletarskoe kino which was used for one year between 1931 and 1932. The magazine was published on a monthly basis from its start in 1931 to 1941. In the 1960s Valerii Golovskoi was the editor. He was succeeded by
Anton Dolin in 2017, who raised a crowdfunding campaign for the magazine that gathered 3 million rubles. In 2020,
Cinema Foundation of Russia refused to sponsor the magazine, a decision Dolin considered a retaliation for his critical reviews of the Foundation-sponsored films. In 2021, Iskusstvo Kino was crowdfunded again, raising 5 mln rub. In 2022, Dolin was proclaimed a
foreign agent by Russian officials for political dissent and fled the country. The magazine ceased publication in May 2023 and became an online magazine. The magazine was archived by East View Information Services, Inc. based in
Minneapolis. ==The editors==