Interactive work in inaugural display condemned as an insult to the Virgin Mary

Speakers at the World Cities Culture Forum Summit addressed culture development as a driver for social progress, while Russian liberals warn of a slip back into Stalinism

Statue of Russia’s tenth-century founder seen by many to honour Putin as well as the prince

Two back-to-back incidents at Sakharov Center centred on pictures of Ukrainian soldiers

The picture, which was stolen in 1995, turned up in a gallery in Venice

Jock Sturges defends work against pornography claims by conservative protesters

Alexandra Paperno among artists creating installations in tiny village in southern Russia

Collection supported by the Vladimir Potanin Foundation includes Soviet noncomformist works and pays tribute to artists with a French connection

Ukraine calls for boycott of museum for borrowing 38 works by Ivan Aivazovsky from annexed territories

Although the Soviet leader once called his work “degenerate”, the artist was asked to design his tombstone

Discovery in Phanagoria, the ancient Greek site near Crimea, is of "international significance"

Andrey Filatov’s Art Russe signs long-term deal with Lord Montagu’s Beaulieu Palace House

But he told reporters after the trial that he refused to pay and mocked the prosecutors’ charges of damaging cultural heritage by burning FSB doors

Recently restored painting, The Resurrection of Christ, is going on show at the State Hermitage Museum

Police question former director of National Centre for Contemporary Arts in connection to corruption investigation

Court finds Elena Basner made a mistake, but prosecutors say they will appeal

The Nonconformist artist also accommodated the Soviet regime

The new institution's director says the goal is efficiency

Political artist Pyotr Pavlensky, who set fire to the entrance on Lubyanka Square as part of a performance, is now facing trial in Moscow

Event will be held in amphitheater of ancient Syrian city recently recaptured from Isil militants

Exhibition could prove milestone in overcoming tensions over Soviet appropriation of German collections

Kandinsky and Rodchenko wanted to bring art to the masses by sending it to regional museums, now much of it has come back to Moscow

French masterpiece, which goes on show at Moscow’s State Pushkin Museum this month, has only ever left Paris once before

Tsarist-era estate near Moscow joins "red route" for Chinese tourists

Russia’s culture ministry decides against creating giant restoration firm after protest by family of the late Vladimir Sarabyanov, the country’s “Da Vinci”

But the project includes a controversial history exhibition that tries to rehabilitate Stalin’s image