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Russia-Ukraine war
On the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, The Art Newspaper looks at the human and cultural costs of the conflict, the art world’s efforts to support displaced institutions and individuals, and how Ukraine’s built and artistic heritage has been used to tell the opposing narratives of war.
Cosmoscow, once Russia’s premier international art fair, opens in building reportedly struck by drone last month
Only one of over 75 participating galleries this year is from abroad—but Russian dealers remain determined to continue business
Russia’s boycotted Hermitage Museum inks culture deal with Iranian research institute
Cooperation agreement follows Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy strategy to forge closer ties with Iran
Unesco adds sites in Kyiv and Lviv to list of world heritage in danger
Amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv’s Saint Sophia Cathedral, the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and the historic centre of Lviv join Odesa on Unesco’s endangered list
Heritage destruction brings Putin one step closer to prosecution, according to landmark report
Blue Shield workers have been able to access and gather evidence in destroyed cultural buildings and heritage sites in Ukraine. What have they found?
Unesco beefs up protection for 20 cultural heritage sites in Ukraine
Damaging any of the sites inscribed in the agency's new list qualifies as a ‘serious violation’ to the 1954 Hague Convention
Crimean museum director sanctioned by EU and Switzerland
Andrei Vitalievich Maglin is holding thousands of works from the Ukrainian city of Kherson
Canada imposes sanctions on director of Russia’s State Hermitage Museum
Canada is the first country other than Ukraine to sanction Mikhail Piotrovsky for his support of Russia’s invasion
State Tretyakov Gallery employee killed on frontline
Vladislav Polenov first made the news after he was drafted in the partial mobilisation launched by President Vladimir Putin last September
'Cancelled' St Petersburg show honouring Timur Novikov finally opens—with censorship
Artists accuse the Russian Museum—which blames technical issues for the delay—of covering up parts of their works
Historic Kherson cathedral struck by Russian shelling
Landmark site was the burial place of Prince Grigory Potemkin, whose bones were removed by Russian occupying forces last year
Kyiv Biennial 2023 to travel across Europe with focus on 'war and displacement'
This year's exhibition will first open in the capital and two other Ukrainian cities
Russian attacks on Odesa damage Orthodox cathedral
The bombing of several buildings including in the historic city centre—a World Heritage Site—has been strongly condemned by Unesco
Ukraine's historic sites under threat from dam burst
A new report confirms flooding adjacent to the house museum of the self-trained Ukrainian artist Polina Rayko in Oleshky
Riga biennial cancelled after outcry over organisers' Russian links
The third Riboca had already been delayed twice because of the war in Ukraine
Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova on bringing her punk protest art and a prison cell to New Mexico
One of the Russian dissident collective’s co-founders, Tolokonnikova is showing Pussy Riot’s work and her own at Container, an art space in Santa Fe
Hermitage Amsterdam gets new name and three new museum partners
The museum, which broke ties with the St Petersburg museum after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, will now be known as H’art
Russia's 'Trinity' icon to stay at Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral for another month
Andrei Rublev’s 15th-century work, which was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church last month, will also no longer be restored at the State Tretyakov Gallery
Artists who stayed in Ukraine navigate cultural war and actual warfare in new documentary
“Rule of Two Walls”, showing at the Tribeca Film Festival, follows artists in Ukraine after the launch of Russia’s invasion
Devastating dam collapse in Ukraine has apparently flooded house museum of late artist Polina Rayko
The self-taught painter's image of a dove has become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance following Russia's 2022 invasion
Fragile Trinity icon installed at Moscow cathedral in time for Pentecost
President Putin ordered the transfer of the medieval masterpiece from the State Tretyakov Gallery to the Russian Orthodox Church despite protests from restorers
Russian authorities confirm that famous 'Trinity' icon will be transferred to church despite protests from restorers and art historians
The announcement that President Putin will return Andrei Rublev’s masterpiece has sparked criticism from experts due to its fragile condition
A pioneering Ukrainian American modernist’s wartime imagery gains new relevance
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
Putin now orders return of Russia's most precious icon to the church
Following the restitution of the silver Nevsky sarcophagus last week, the handover of Andrei Rublev's 15th-century Trinity has sparked concerns among conservators
Fire damages Russian cultural centre in Cyprus
Moscow officials describe that blaze as a "terrorist attack"
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
Ukrainian artists reflect on Russia’s war at Expo Chicago
Kyiv-based Voloshyn Gallery is showing works by two emerging Ukrainian artists on its stand at Expo Chicago
Pro-Putin Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky speaks out again in support of war in Ukraine
The veteran Russian museum chief tells Kremlin newspaper that war is “a means of cultural exchange”
Unesco chief vows to help rebuild Ukraine’s heritage and culture—but $6.9bn investment is needed
Audrey Azoulay met President Zelensky and toured sites in Kyiv, Chernihiv and Odesa during an official visit to the country this week
What has happened to visitor numbers at Russian museums since the start of the war?
As Russia leaves the world cultural stage following its invasion of Ukraine, we look at how its art institutions have reacted
Inaugural New York fair for Ukrainian artists wants to show that the country is ‘a solution, not a problem’
The event, called I Am U Are, is demonstrating that Ukraine’s creative industries are alive and kicking despite Russia’s invasion