Georgia

Tbilisi ‘rebel’ artist Karlo Kacharava’s visions of glasnost Georgia are getting a posthumous re-evaluation—will a market one follow?

Kacharava’s first international solo show at Smak in Ghent comes two years after Modern Art gallery signed the artist’s estate

Stalin religious icon splattered with paint in Georgia

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

Fears grow for Georgian museum created to salute purged writers after director sacked

The Museum of Repressed Writers in Tbilisi was created to remember the creatives who were silenced by the Soviet Union. But, after months of political tension, the future of the museum hangs in the balance

New exhibition in Tbilisi shines light on Georgian artist shunned by Soviet Union

Levan Chogoshvili's first large-scale solo show in the country will take place at the Atinati Cultural Center

The Georgian artists at the forefront of anti-government protests

When Georgia’s government tried to impose a Russian-style ‘foreign agent’ law, the cultural community hit back hard

Protest performance art in Tbilisi sparks political storm between Georgia's president and culture minister

Use of police forces against supporters of artist Sandro Sulaberidze have been criticised by country's top state officials

What do exiled Russian art world figures think of the war? We spoke to three in Tbilisi to find out

A museum director, theatre director and artist describe the lack of hope—and warn that cultural sanctions may cause the intelligentsia to unite against the west

Roadside sculpture in Georgia—which some believed to be a satanic monument—demolished following early-morning bombing

The 16ft-tall structure, sometimes referred to as "America’s Stonehenge", was built in 1980 and inscribed with a ten-part message that may have been meant to help survivors of an apocalyptic event rebuild society

Georgian galleries unite for first Tbilisi Gallery Weekend in support of Ukraine

Commercial spaces will exhibit and sell works made by artists during Russia’s invasion

Experts raise alarm over fate of Georgia's leading art museum amid political upheaval

Concerns persist that a government-backed renovation of the Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts in Tbilisi could endanger its collection of 139,000 ancient and modern works

Why I agreed to join the advisory board of the art fair in Georgia (no, not the southern US state)

It has art schools, tradition, a culturally rich catchment area, and a true-grit backer

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Why the new Tbilisi Art Fair restores pleasure to buying art

It’s affordable, good quality, unspeculative—and the wine is great

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Georgia and Russia rattle their sabres over war damage

Both sides claim the other damaged historic buildings