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

Fire marks tragic loss for cultural heritage in the region, which broke away from Georgia three decades ago

Exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum examines how the movement founded by Nikolai Fyodorov influenced artists

The work in the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi depicts St Matrona of Moscow, a visionary and healer, blessing the Soviet dictator

Run for fifth term held against backdrop of nationalist exhibitions while clampdown continues on artists and writers

The ancient objects were on loan to a Dutch museum from Russia-occupied Crimea before the Black Sea peninsula was annexed

Members of the country's cultural sector are among those concerned about harsh punishments for perceived violations should the declaration be signed off

Skochilenko was charged for replacing supermarket price labels with pieces of information about the destruction of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol

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

Much of the collection was evacuated when Russia's invasion of Ukraine began last year

Pyotr Verzilov was formerly the publisher of Mediazona, a human rights news site founded by Pussy Riot members Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alekhina

While the Azerbaijani president has promised to protect cultural and religious sites in the region, others have called for their demolition