“Most contemporary art collectors today are intellectuals who own their own company”

Aurora Fine Art Fund claims it has conclusive evidence that £1.69m work is not by Boris Kustodiev

The space will display Pinchuk's own collection as well as loaned exhibitions

Irina Lebedeva talks on getting locals interested in art

Collectors look for safe options in a turbulent market

Mixed results as contemporary art nosedives while earlier works avoid the worst

New research challenges Russians’ claim that they own many cultural valuables from the independent state

His Pinchuk Art Centre will play host to over 100 works

Exhibitors fear that collectors will no longer make high-price purchases

The Moscow-based collector has amassed a hoard of Russian contemporary art

Both sides claim the other damaged historic buildings

The kidnapped statue has now been returned to the museum

The inventors of a new technique for dating paintings say it can prove whether a work was made before or after 1945

Vladimir Nekrasov has been charged with corporate tax evasion

The proposed museum will open at Baden-Baden in the autumn

Yet secrecy over values remained a priority at the Art Kapital auction

Tate acquires edition of video shown at this year’s Venice Biennale

Russia’s Federal Cultural Heritage Protection Agency is set to publish the first volume of a catalogue of Russian paintings known to be fake

The news comes as unexpected due to suppression of religion freedom in the nation

The Pinchuk Art Center was opened 16 September 2006

The museum's director maintains that the agreement is no major coup

Was the price forced up at Sotheby's sale?

A growing number of mid-size European auction houses are trying to cash in on the Russian boom

This sales report demonstrates the intense interest in Russian late 19th-century classical paintings, early 20th-century modernist paintings, and Fabergé works

Including banking billionaire Pyotr Aven

Couple claim that forgery accusations were the result of a property deal gone sour

Culture ministry responds to fakes certified by leading institutions

The works are on show in a local museum, and will travel the country next year

Oil-rich private collectors are dominating the salerooms and pushing aside dealers and investment funds

Exhibition of Jewish artist’s work challenges official stance on Israel