Plus, Alice Neel's largest UK show and a dazzling turn-of-the-century blanket

Art organisations and artists are rallying to provide money for disaster relief in the region

The Art Newspaper probes the complex issues arising from the removal of the Kherson Museum’s collection, sent to Crimea for “safekeeping”

Images show disappearance of churches and cemeteries in the Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhchivan regions at the centre of the largely ignored conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan

Different methods of protecting heritage during times of war are explored with mixed success in this challenging read

Culture will be central to the country's recovery—enabling people to process trauma, share a common identity and articulate shared experiences

Ukrainian culture minister Oleksandr Tkachenko says buildings have been damaged including the Khanenko Art Museum and the Kyiv Art Gallery

The Unesco World Heritage Site is closed while conservators assess the damage to the almost 1,000 ancient statues, while the island's mayor claims the fire was started deliberately

While some museums and art spaces escaped largely unscathed—thanks to a mix of thorough preparation and meteorological luck—others in the most devastated areas remain unreachable

As Unesco pledges $350,000 to safeguard sites, questions are raised about the country’s long-term commitment to restoring and protecting key locations in the face of the climate crisis

Dating from the ninth to the 13th century, the stelae were once considered sacred

The pieces include paintings by Frederic Leighton, John Everett Millais and Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The International Council of Museums says revised protocol will allow it to more readily “address conflicts”—and could lead to the expulsion of Russia from the organisation

Exhibition builds on a project to document Ukraine's monumental and contested public art created during Soviet era

The Qattarat al-Imam Ali shrine, a popular pilgrimage destination, collapsed on 20 August after rubble from a landslide struck its roof

Plus, the Cezanne blockbuster at The Art Institute of Chicago and Nicola L.’s Gold Femme Commode at Alison Jacques

These five missing paintings might still survive—possibly looted and secreted away

The titanium People’s Friendship Arch above the statue will remain but be renamed the Arch of Freedom of the Ukrainian People

Amid Russia’s savagery we must maintain a clear ethical stance when intervening to protect culture

Town of Trostianets has pushed out the Russian army but has suffered widespread destruction

Culture ministry earmarks EU pandemic recovery funds to mitigate the impact of future disasters on religious buildings around the country

Museum staff, heritage custodians and volunteers are racing against time to safeguard the country's cultural treasures, many of which, ironically, are connected to Russia

Director has been posting emotional updates on Facebook as Russian forces shell area

Cathedral building has suffered external damage as bombs land 50m away

Floodwaters rose to second-floor ceiling of Lismore Regional Gallery, at the “epicentre” of the disaster for the New South Wales town

In our series "Dispatches from Afghanistan", we speak to artists about their experiences since the rise of the Taliban. Here, Jahan Ara Rafi calls on the international community to help rescue those still stuck in the country

As order collapses, the country's residents lack food, water and power—but cultural life survives amid the chaos

In our series "Dispatches from Afghanistan", we speak to artists about their experiences since the rise of the Taliban. Here, Sima shares how fearing for her life is making her physically ill

In our series "Dispatches from Afghanistan", we speak to artists and cultural workers about their experiences since the rise of the Taliban

Abdul Wasi Rahraw Omarzad set up a school for women artists and Afghanistan’s only art journal