
Russia-Ukraine war
Ukraine gives its troops a handbook on protecting cultural property
The guidelines aim to make international laws readily accessible to soldiers on the ground, and reflects Ukraine's experience in the war against Russia
Opinion
Comment | Why a country should invest in art—even when it’s under attack
While physically defending their country, Ukrainian artist’s work provides oxygen for urgent issues that demand attention and dialogue, writes Björn Geldhof, the artistic director of the PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
Sasha Skochilenko: I just happened to be the winner of the ‘Hunger Games’
The Russian artist, who was freed in a prison swap, on life under President Putin and spending more than two years in prison for an art intervention opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Now is the time to honour not censor Russia’s dissident artists
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
'Scythian gold is at the heart of Russia’s identity war'
Art historian and curator Konstantin Akinsha asserts that Russian attempts to claim succession from the ancient Scythians date back to the 18th century
Podcasts
What will happen to Ukraine's museum collections after the war?
Plus, Okwui Enwezor’s Sharjah Biennial and Ming Smith at New York's Museum of Modern Art
Leigh Bowery at Tate Modern, Ukraine’s art world three years on, Max Beckmann and the Gothic Modern—podcast
Celebrating the life and work of the Australian performance artist, how Ukrainian artists and institutions are continuing to resist, and a close look at a pair of works from an Oslo exhibition
Kyiv Biennial 2023: a cross-European event put together ‘against all odds’
Plus, a project exploring the sounds of migration and Jem Perucchini’s Art on the Underground commission
Saving Ukraine’s heritage: an eyewitness account of relief efforts
Plus, the Cezanne blockbuster at The Art Institute of Chicago and Nicola L.’s Gold Femme Commode at Alison Jacques
Artists
‘Everything indicates’ murder of Russian dissident artist in Poland was a political killing
The Polish prime minister said the murder of Robert Kuzovkov would “constitute an act of state terrorism” if Russia was found to be behind it
Aleksandr Dotsenko, artist jailed in Russia over anti-war supermarket protest, dies
The Ukraine-born artist died of a heart attack, less than two years after being convicted for placing anti-war slogans in a shop in the Leningrad region
‘He is a hero to me’: artist speaks out after Ukrainian athlete barred from Winter Olympics for commemorative helmet
Iryna Prots, who created the imagery on Vladyslav Heraskevych’s helmet—which honours Ukraine’s war dead—says she feels the decision to disqualify him violates the Olympic spirit
‘Repressionist’ artist Pavel Krisevich forced to flee Russia
The performance artist, who has faced multiple arrests, now lives in Montenegro
Heritage
Russian drone attack on Ukraine damages several cultural sites
A monastery in Kyiv was set ablaze by a missile strike in the latest offensive against the country, with residential buildings also targeted
Unesco adds ancient Greek city Tauric Chersonese in Crimea to World Heritage in Danger list
The decision comes after calls by Ukraine to protect the archaeological site, which is now managed by a Russian Orthodox cleric appointed by Vladimir Putin
Unesco-protected monastery in Lviv damaged by Russian drone strike
The 17th-century Bernardine Monastery was one of several buildings hit in the Ukrainian city’s historic centre, which is a Unesco World Heritage Site
Ukraine adopts resolution to aid evacuation of artefacts from front line
The government's decision to simplify the process of removing millions of objects in high-risk zones comes as the war with Russia enters its fifth year
Ukraine gets emergency Red List for art as evidence mounts of 'trading networks flowing West'
Is Ukraine's cultural heritage under coordinated attack?
Saving Ukraine’s heritage: an eyewitness account of relief efforts
Museums
Barrage of Russian missiles damages museums, library and theatre in Kyiv
Among the institutions that were hit are the National Art Museum of Ukraine and the National Chornobyl Museum, Ukraine’s culture ministry reports
EU imposes sanctions on Mikhail Piotrovsky, director of Russia's State Hermitage Museum
The Putin ally has been a vocal supporter of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Russia's winter bombardment puts strain on Ukrainian museum workers
Targeted attacks on electric and water supplies amid freezing conditions are further complicating the work of cultural organisations
Banksy
Banksy in Ukraine: seven new works appear in war-torn sites
The pieces are located throughout the country, from Kyiv to Borodyanka
High-tech security systems installed on Banksy’s Ukraine murals
Ajax Systems has deployed $13,000 worth of security and monitoring apparatuses at four Banksy murals in and around Kyiv
Ringleader of group who attempted to steal Banksy mural in Ukraine could face 12 years in prison
The suspect has not been identified by police, but is likely to be an environmental activist who told press that he intended to auction the work in support of the Ukrainian army
Banksy shares behind-the-scenes video of his Ukraine interventions
The secretive artist has dropped a short making-of documentary chronicling his guerilla interventions in war-torn Horenka
Banksy creates mural on bombed out building in Ukraine
The secretive artist apparently created a stencil of a gymnast amid the wreckage of a building in a city northwest of Kyiv
Exhibitions
European Union officially pulls €2m Venice Biennale funding over Russian participation
“Cultural events, funded by European taxpayers’ money, should safeguard democratic values—values which are not respected in today’s Russia,” a European Commission spokesman said
‘It’s essential for understanding what is going on in Ukraine’: new exhibition explores wartime limb loss
Nikita Kadan's Kyiv show emphasises Ukrainians’ “optimism of will” after four years of war
Photographer Giles Duley brings images of historic and current wars into dialogue in Manhattan pop-up show
For a pop-up exhibition in a penthouse apartment high above Midtown, the British photographer is showing archival materials, his own photos and three room-sized installations
Venice exhibition of site-specific films aims to capture the hyper stimulating times we are living in
The show "Canicula" is the third in a series presented by Fondazione In Between Art Film
Art Market
Hauser & Wirth cleared of Russian sanction charges
The gallery was charged after selling a Condo work on paper to the collector Alexander Popov
Ukraine-Russia war remains front and centre for Viennacontemporary fair exhibitors
The fair continues to act as a bridge between eastern and western Europe
New York City’s ‘first Ukrainian art gallery’ highlights artists living in the war zone
“Some of the works that we’re selling here, I’m very confident that in three years they will double in price,” says Mriya gallery founder Artem Yalanskiy
Ukrainian dealer gives the country’s emerging artists a foothold in Hollywood
Lia Snisarenko launched Art Axcess in her home last September to showcase contemporary art from Ukraine
Interviews
‘These are terrible crimes’: A Ukrainian museum director’s fight to recover art
Alina Dotsenko of the Kherson Art Museum explains how her team is working to find stolen objects
‘There is no panic’: artist Pavlo Makov on working in the beleaguered Ukrainian city of Kharkiv
Meanwhile, the Royal Academy in London prepares to launch a major survey of Ukrainian Modernist art in the wake of Russia’s invasion
Sunflowers: the symbol of Van Gogh—and Ukraine
Vincent’s beloved bloom will eventually flourish again in the war-torn country























































