Museum hosted a 'Feminnale' that included performance work highlighting plight of sex workers

An avid patron of the arts and sciences, the emperor gave Russian society a new perspective on the world and elevated the country’s place within it

Collaboration spearheaded by the State Hermitage Museum was made official in Damascus this week

Exhibition showing "unique slice" of art from Europe will coincide with the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War

State Tretyakov Gallery among 23 Russian museums planning to store and show works near former killing field Kommunarka

Head of Repin Institute, which is popular with Chinese students, says it has "a lot in common" with Chinese art academies

Investigators find paintings and rare books missing from private museum belonging to banker Alexei Ananyev accused of alleged financial crimes

The German curator was previously accused of conflicting interests between the Amsterdam museum and her private consulting work

Multi-institution programme aims to introduce contemporary art to the capital's residents

Leonid Mikhelson says that the "frightening" cost that he had initially anticipated for the GES-2 complex has doubled

Cultural programme of Russian art launches to coincide with president's trip to the Gulf state to sign over $2bn worth of deals

Deputy director’s swingeing salary cuts trigger resignations of around 50 employees at Moscow theatre museum

Denis Chuprikov took the landscape from State Tretyakov Gallery with the aim of "causing hype", he says

Handover from Russian culture ministry is expected to be completed in early 2020

Cosmoscow's public programme will explore 'the crisis of faith in expertise' in the art market

Street art and digital art used as tools of subversion, as artists themselves bear the brunt of a brutal government crackdown

Former Roerich Museum director Tigran Mkrtychev wins international competition to head up the famed Russian avant-garde collection long embroiled in controversy

Artem Loskutov’s application was rejected on the same day that journalist and supporter Ivan Golunov was arrested

André-Marc Delocque-Fourcaud urges Russia to reunite collection in Moscow

The renovation threatened the museum's architecture and collection, plaintiffs argued

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Damien Hirst's placemat portraits to Nari Ward's recycled shoelace installation

The Hermitage will also expand its presence in Crimea with a new cultural centre planned in Sevastopol

It is the second time in a month that the feminist activist has been arrested by police

Exhibitions in Russia of homegrown artists attract proportionally greater numbers than blockbusters in other countries

The latest bizarre incident at one of Russia’s most important institutions was an “unsanctioned performance” according to the museum

Officials raised concerns that the festival was promoting an LGBT agenda

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