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

The strategic Black Sea port city, home to a famous opera house and controversial Catherine the Great statue, has been the target of Russian bombing

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

Dimitri Ozerkov, the head of the contemporary art department, made the announcement on Instagram after months of silence

The celebrated German artist has created an installation at the Stedelijk Museum that marks a step away from the elaborate performance works for which she is best known

Amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, exhibitors at the third edition of Georgia's premier commercial art event hoped to dispel the idea that the nation "exists on the periphery of Russia”

Doroshenko, a Chicagoan of Ukrainian heritage, was the founding president of the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv and was the commissioner of the country’s Venice Biennale pavilion three times

“Understandably” no Ukrainian dealers applied to take part in the tenth anniversary edition of the Moscow fair

Founded in 2004, MacDougall's was the first international auction house to have representatives in Moscow and Kyiv

The International Council of Museums has worked with Interpol to create the list, with border patrols on "high alert" to seize art stolen from Ukrainian museums—but is it too late?