Sophia Kishkovsky

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

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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

Russia’s Versailles under threat by developers

Preservationists fear that plans for the Arkhangelskoye estate’s visitor facilities will ignore restoration needs

Russian dealer to help Abramovic get Montenegro art centre off the ground

<p> Performance artist’s Bauhaus-inspired venue was meant to open in 2013 </p>

Disputes in Russia concerning the authenticity of many works attributed to Malevich circulating the Russian art market

As a major Malevich show opens in London, claims grow that the avant-garde market is still plagued by the fakes

Moscowarchive

Tate Modern is our model, says director of Pushkin museum

Maria Loshak seeks industrial space for Modern and contemporary art satellite in Moscow

Moscow collector Mkrtich Okroyan opens Art Deco museum

Objects include a mixed media panel suite by Pierre Bobot from the Roseland Ballroom in New York