Visitors of a certain age may well be shocked to find that ultimately the Russian artist loathed the Bolsheviks as much as he did the tsars

The museums are pooling the divided collections of Sergei Shchukin and Morozov brothers for a quartet of exhibitions

A dispute between Neizvestny’s wife and daughter threatens the late Russian artist’s estate and monumental works

GES-2 will be part of Moscow's Museum Mile, linked to Garage, the Tretyakov and the Pushkin

Brazen incident raises questions about museum security in Russia

Verdict was handed down in dramatic Paris hearing, which Pavlensky dedicated to the Marquis de Sade

As the exhibition opens in Moscow, curators hope a photograph of the missing work might jog the memory of any witnesses

Activists say PIK Group's high-rise developments are environmentally unsafe and only aimed at making "super profits"

The 35m sq. one-bedroom flat has been carefully renovated to include avant-garde furniture and design

Senior employees claim the $17m project threatens the Mikhailovsky Palace building and its collections

European Court of Human Rights ordered payment over treatment of the group in pre-trial detention and treatment in court

Defacement may be politically motivated as nationalists see the veneration of the German figure as unpatriotic

Russian pilgrims can no longer participate in services or sacraments there

The self-taught artist, whose work commands surprisingly high prices at auction, is the subject of an exhibition at Vienna's Albertina museum

A small number of works by the Russian avant-garde artist are currently at “Davos in the Desert” conference to act as teaser for future exhibition

Announcement comes as evidence mounts in slaying of the dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi

Church is latest example of symbiosis between church and military patriotism

Collaboration in Almaty is expected to be long-term, but no money is changing hands

Volunteer-run organisation has been based in former Soviet secret police headquarters for the past decade

Medics in Berlin have not identified substance but are confident Russian will recover

Femen activists showed their support outside the courthouse by sewing their lips shut in a recreation of his first performance

Activist who was recently imprisoned for Russian group's World Cup protest in July "lost his vision, speech and ability to walk"

Moscow contemporary art fair features a Qatari contemporary art exhibition in Russia as the two countries try to foster cultural ties

State Hermitage Museum and Tretyakov are involved in arts centre in contested region

The street artist’s Instagram comment that the show has “nothing to do with me” set off an online debate about artists’ rights—which made him LOL

Maria Alyokhina had spent two years in prison for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred”

The actor, who will be working on improving Russian-American relations including culture, was granted a Russian passport by Putin in 2016

Ancient city occupied by Islamic State was retaken by Syrian army with Russian support in 2017

But Russian president's remarks at eighth Moscow Urban Forum angered preservationists

Roman Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova will continue to fund their contemporary art museum