The announcement that President Putin will return Andrei Rublev’s masterpiece has sparked criticism from experts due to its fragile condition

Janet Sobel has gained belated recognition for developing drip painting before Jackson Pollock, but a new exhibition at the Ukrainian Museum in New York focuses on her work during the Second World War

Following the restitution of the silver Nevsky sarcophagus last week, the handover of Andrei Rublev's 15th-century Trinity has sparked concerns among conservators

Moscow officials describe that blaze as a "terrorist attack"

The director of the Zimmerli Art Museum, which is home to the world's foremost collection of Soviet nonconformist art, says recent calls to censor all Russian art in light of the war in Ukraine oversimplify the issue

Kyiv-based Voloshyn Gallery is showing works by two emerging Ukrainian artists on its stand at Expo Chicago

The veteran Russian museum chief tells Kremlin newspaper that war is “a means of cultural exchange”

Audrey Azoulay met President Zelensky and toured sites in Kyiv, Chernihiv and Odesa during an official visit to the country this week

As Russia leaves the world cultural stage following its invasion of Ukraine, we look at how its art institutions have reacted

The event, called I Am U Are, is demonstrating that Ukraine’s creative industries are alive and kicking despite Russia’s invasion

Businesses urged to tighten approach to client background checks as US subpoenas auction houses for sales records

Vladimir Voronchenko, the founding director of the Faberge Museum, has been indicted and named in a civil forfeiture complaint against billionaire Viktor Vekselberg as part of US efforts to crack down on sanctions evasion

Olga Lyubimova, who has served as Russia’s top cultural official since 2020, was sanctioned by the European Union late last year

A pop-up exhibition in aid of Ukrainian relief efforts has opened in Los Angeles following a stint in New York

Zelfira Tregulova, who has headed the State Tretyakov Gallery since 2015, will be replaced by Elena Pronicheva, who has links to Vladimir Putin

Prosecutors in New York are seeking auction house sales information going back years in order to track potentially illicit transactions by sanctioned Russian collectors

The emirate, currently a haven for 'half of Moscow', is enjoying a post-pandemic economic boom

Yulia Tsvetkova was acquitted on charges of distributing gay ‘pornography’ but strict new laws have forced her to leave the country

Big hitters were the subject of major shows, from Donatello in Florence to Faith Ringgold in New York and Alice Neel in Paris

New and refurbished museums open in Antwerp, Los Angeles and Sydney as Italian archaeologists make the "discovery of a generation" in a hilltop town in Tuscany

Plus, our writers sit down to discuss their favourite works of the year

Boycotted Russia resigned as chair of the World Heritage Committee last month

The work is one of seven the artist created in war-torn areas of the country last month

Plus, UK culture cuts and Ukrainian Modernism in Madrid

Survey show at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza will open with an address by President Zelensky and a symposium calling for a European cultural deal with Ukraine

The secretive artist has dropped a short making-of documentary chronicling his guerilla interventions in war-torn Horenka

Bolland & Marotz in Bremen issued a statement this week saying it was "outraged" by the incident

Bursaries and a "Sister School" network of universities across Europe have been organised by UAx Platform to support war-affected Ukrainian students and staff

The secretive artist apparently created a stencil of a gymnast amid the wreckage of a building in a city northwest of Kyiv

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