While reportedly nearly 1,400 political prisoners, including 163 cultural figures, remain behind bars, the government stages cultural events whose prime purpose is to bolster the regime and its autocratic leader

The prominent Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan described her as “very young, sincere and gifted," adding: "There is no explanation for this. And there is no forgiveness either”

As the summer season in the tony Long Island enclave wound down, the humanitarian organisation BlueCheck and Manhattan’s Mriya gallery teamed up for a benefit auction

The satellite fair’s new director visited Kyiv in the spring to forge partnerships with artists and dealers there

Through Vatican mediation, the museum researcher was freed alongside nine others earlier this summer

Tauric Chersonese, a Unesco World Heritage Site, has been transformed by Russia into a “historical and archaeological park”

Mariupol museum’s Oleksandr Hore, trapped in Odesa, is documenting losses and monitoring looting

“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

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

Anastasia Dyudyaeva is the second artist in less than a year to be jailed for allegedly disseminating anti-government messages in such a setting

Alina Dotsenko of the Kherson Art Museum explains how her team is working to find stolen objects

Edward Akrout is launching Kyiv Art Sessions at the Old Sessions House this weekend

In tributes, friends and colleagues described him as “icon of the Ukrainian queer underground” and “a holy man”

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”

The tiles decorated the bathing pavilion of Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw before they disappeared during the Second World War

The Pereyaslav Rada sculpture celebrates a historical agreement between the two nations

Show shines a light on lesser-known early images by the celebrated photographer

Esther, established by two gallerists from the Baltic state, is inspired by the pop-up Basel Social Club

The raid was reportedly related to an investigation into dissident artist Pyotr Verzilov

From a historic Harlem Renaissance show at the Met and MoMA's Joan Jonas retrospective to solo museum debuts for Melissa Cody and Nona Faustine

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 Russian pavilion will host a group exhibition of artists from South America organised by Bolivia’s Ministry of Cultures, Decolonisation and Depatriarchalisation

The Mykhailo Boichuk Kyiv State Academy of Decorative Applied Arts and Design reportedly sustained serious damage from falling fragments of a missile

The homes and studios of more than 30 artists in at least seven cities across the country have been raided

“Liberation museum” and propaganda-rich displays aim to rewrite history and legitimise war.

Country's president has called it an "attack on the state"

Lia Snisarenko launched Art Axcess in her home last September to showcase contemporary art from Ukraine

In a recent hearing the artist, Vasily Slonov, likened his treatment to that of Aleksei Navalny, the opposition leader who died on 16 February

Paintings, fashion and furniture among the range of pieces in an exhibition dedicated to the Odesa-born artist and designer

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