
Russia-Ukraine war
On the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, The Art Newspaper looks at the human and cultural costs of the conflict, the art world’s efforts to support displaced institutions and individuals, and how Ukraine’s built and artistic heritage has been used to tell the opposing narratives of war.
Release of Olena Pekh highlights plight of other Ukrainian cultural workers languishing in Russian prisons
Through Vatican mediation, the museum researcher was freed alongside nine others earlier this summer
Ukrainian worker manages a wrecked museum in exile
Mariupol museum’s Oleksandr Hore, trapped in Odesa, is documenting losses and monitoring looting
New York City’s ‘first Ukrainian art gallery’ highlights artists living in the war zone
“Some of the works that we’re selling here, I’m very confident that in three years they will double in price,” says Mriya gallery founder Artem Yalanskiy
Russian dissident artist released as part of historic prisoner swap
Sasha Skochilenko, who was arrested in 2022 for an art intervention opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, was freed along with Wall Street Journal writer Evan Gershkovich and 15 others
Russian artist imprisoned for three and a half years over alleged anti-war supermarket protest
Anastasia Dyudyaeva is the second artist in less than a year to be jailed for allegedly disseminating anti-government messages in such a setting
‘These are terrible crimes’: A Ukrainian museum director’s fight to recover art
Alina Dotsenko of the Kherson Art Museum explains how her team is working to find stolen objects
Anglo-French actor brings Ukrainian art to London with new festival
Edward Akrout is launching Kyiv Art Sessions at the Old Sessions House this weekend
‘There is no panic’: artist Pavlo Makov on working in the beleaguered Ukrainian city of Kharkiv
Meanwhile, the Royal Academy in London prepares to launch a major survey of Ukrainian Modernist art in the wake of Russia’s invasion
Artur Snitkus, Ukrainian artist and musician, killed in combat near Donetsk, aged 36
In tributes, friends and colleagues described him as “icon of the Ukrainian queer underground” and “a holy man”
Exiled Russian artist reflects on the impact of war on his hometown in Peckham show
Pavel Otdelnov's show at the Old Waiting Room in south London aims to “discover the origins of the catastrophe unfolding before our eyes today”
Ukrainian museums call for better recognition of their role in reconstruction
More than 100 Ukrainian museum professionals, meeting in Berlin, pledge to rebuild a modern, inclusive cultural sector
Huge Soviet-era monument taken down in Kyiv as Ukraine continues 'derussification'
The Pereyaslav Rada sculpture celebrates a historical agreement between the two nations
Russian security forces search Moscow’s Garage Museum
The raid was reportedly related to an investigation into dissident artist Pyotr Verzilov
Head of New Holland art centre in St Petersburg resigns after husband's social post
Roxana Shatunovskaya stepped down from the space founded by Dasha Zhukova and Roman Abramovich after her husband posted about the Moscow terrorist attack on Facebook
'The desire to create is still there': Ukraine's first lady Olena Zelenska launches country's pavilion at the Venice Biennale
President Zelensky's wife gave a video address to visitors of the show in Venice
War, refugees, destruction: how Venice Biennale 2024 will reflect our era
Thousands have called for Israel’s pavilion to be cancelled, a proposed Palestinian exhibition was rejected, while Ukraine’s pavilion deals with its ongoing war
Russia lending its Venice Biennale pavilion to Bolivia
The Russian pavilion will host a group exhibition of artists from South America organised by Bolivia’s Ministry of Cultures, Decolonisation and Depatriarchalisation
Leading Ukrainian art academy devastated by Russian air strike
The Mykhailo Boichuk Kyiv State Academy of Decorative Applied Arts and Design reportedly sustained serious damage from falling fragments of a missile
Russian authorities interrogate and detain artists on eve of presidential election
The homes and studios of more than 30 artists in at least seven cities across the country have been raided
Russia opens up new museum front in its war against Ukraine
“Liberation museum” and propaganda-rich displays aim to rewrite history and legitimise war.
Suspect detained for Molotov cocktail attack at Latvia's Museum of the Occupation
Country's president has called it an "attack on the state"
‘We are not letting the horror be forgotten’: artists mark second anniversary of Ukraine invasion
A new Kyiv museum bringing together tales of the warzone and a marathon immersive video screening in London are two major projects taking place this weekend to acknowledge the occasion
Ukrainian dealer gives the country’s emerging artists a foothold in Hollywood
Lia Snisarenko launched Art Axcess in her home last September to showcase contemporary art from Ukraine
What's behind Russia’s new-found love of African art?
As Russia’s cultural venues are cut off from exchanges with Europe and the US—and in the wake of President Putin’s Russia-Africa summit—museums are filling the gaps with exhibitions of African art
‘In Miami, we are quite unique’: Ukrainian gallerists on their new Miami space
Allapattah outpost of Kyiv's Voloshyn Gallery aims to create dialogue between Eastern European, US and Latin American artists
Scythian gold artefacts returned to Ukraine after ten-year legal battle
The ancient objects were on loan to a Dutch museum from Russia-occupied Crimea before the Black Sea peninsula was annexed
‘It’s important to me to show what happened’: the Israeli artist drawing the traumatic events of 7 October
In the aftermath of Hamas’s attack on Israel, the Kyiv-born, Tel Aviv-based artist Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi made drawings depicting victims and hostages
Russian artist Sasha Skochilenko jailed for anti-war protest
Skochilenko was charged for replacing supermarket price labels with pieces of information about the destruction of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol
Russian prosecutors seek eight-year prison sentence for artist who installed anti-war messages in grocery store
The St Petersburg artist Sasha Skochilenko was arrested in April 2022 for replacing a store's price labels with information about the war in Ukraine
Odesa Museum of Fine Arts rocked by Russian missile strike on 124th anniversary
Much of the collection was evacuated when Russia's invasion of Ukraine began last year