Sophia Kishkovsky
Putin dresses-down culture department over state of monuments
Chief cultural adviser leaves post shortly after Russian president takes aim at his art and culture council and praises efforts of heritage activists
Austrian attaché has Russian Revolution on his mind
Collector seeks artists to respond to the events of 1917 and their legacy today in Russia
Russian Modern art collection split by the Soviets to be reunited in Paris
Works amassed by Sergei Shchukin—once held in Moscow’s State Museum of New Western Art—will be shown together again at the Foundation Louis Vuitton
By planes, personal escorts and automobiles, Frida Kahlo’s work comes to Russia
Crowds come out in force for major loan exhibition dedicated to the Mexican artist at St Petersburg’s Faberge Museum
Russian protest artist held in Moscow psychiatric hospital
The Serbsky Center may also host hearings next week in criminal trial against Pyotr Pavlensky
Record crowds brave Moscow cold for blockbuster show
Valentin Serov exhibition is Tretyakov Gallery’s most popular in 50 years
Moscow museum transformed into commercial operation
Igor Markin, the founder of Art4.ru, says he wants “to sell brazenly.”
Russia breaks cultural ties with Turkey
Move comes amid rising tensions over downed Russian fighter jet
There is more to Malevich’s Black Square than a hidden racist joke, Moscow curators reveal
Tretyakov museum may invite foreign experts to conduct further research on the radical work
The return of Uncle Joe Stalin and Socialist Realism?
The Russian church and state-sponsored art grow ever closer through concurrent Soviet-themed exhibitions in Moscow
Memorial to Sinai plane crash victims planned by sculptor of New Jersey’s Tear of Grief
Zurab Tsereteli says he has been approached to design a monument in St Petersburg and will do it for free
Russian museum security will remain despite police cutbacks, says deputy prime minister
Institutions face attacks of vandalism as society becomes more unsettled
Russia’s private museums defy the economic odds
Institutions are burgeoning in the face of sanctions and currency devaluation
Art is a weapon as Russia and US fight cultural war
Relations worse than ever after federal US judge imposes $43.7m fine over Jewish Orthodox library
Artists should be ‘feared by the powerful’, says former Greek finance minister
In his keynote speech at the Moscow Biennale, Yanis Varoufakis discussed the perils of cultural collapse and why the euro is doomed—from an artistic standpoint
Moscow Biennale brings hope to grim symbol of Russia’s past
Contemporary art exhibition sends homegrown and foreign artists to country's industrial centres
Putin intervenes in Crimean row
Priest resigns after outrage over appointment to run World Heritage Site
Founder of Jewish museum injured in Moscow shooting
Jewish organisation concerned attack on collector and businessman Sergei Ustinov may be anti-Semitic
Curators of Kiev biennial send Europe back to the class room
Eight-week event is structured around "schools" addressing key social and artistic issues
Russian museums reel as they are engaged by the orthodox church in a sacred battle
The increasing closeness of church and state is causing concern about the future of museums and artists’ freedom of expression
Separatists in eastern Ukraine blow up art installation
Pascale Marthine Tayou’s 40m-tall piece was dedicated to the women of Donetsk
Russian architect fights for German Modernist housing estate
Dmitry Sukhin wants Colour Row Settlement, designed by Berlin Philharmonic Hall architect Hans Scharoun, to be restored to full glory
Moscow’s Garage Museum opens with one eye on Soviet past, the other on the future
Inaugural exhibitions highlight its archive of non-conformist art, while new commissions keep the institution focused on the present
Dasha Zhukova’s Garage to reopen in new-look Gorky Park pavilion
Rem Koolhaas transforms Soviet-era pavilion and Yayoi Kusama brings Infinity Room and polka dots to Moscow<br>
Has Russian government’s half-billion dollar pledge to save historic city of Vyborg come too late?
Experts blame local authorities in Vyborg for failing to act as architecture begins to collapse
Russian artist named a 'prisoner of conscience' by Amnesty International has been released
Artyom Loskutov was jailed by Siberian police after organising a May Day counter-march
Kiev Biennial finds a new venue and international support
Second edition to open at the Visual Culture Research Center in September with related projects across Europe, curators say