Russian officials in Switzerland say they are “outraged” by LGBTQ connection and “war criminal” label

As Russia's war continues, conservation is proving impossible—but heritage groups, priests and volunteers are doing their best to document the destruction

Cultural understanding “cancelled” as Russia withdraws from 1998 memorandum and museums wind down “all direct communications and collaborative work”

Andrey Kezzyn recounts how hearing a tale of two lovers separated by the war spurred him to remake the famous art historical image

Born in the Soviet Union, the artist reflects on how works by her and husband Ilya have taken on new meaning since the war

St. Petersburg museum also announces “a one-year moratorium on exhibitions in Europe and the US”

The initiative marks 30 years of formal cultural relations between the two countries

The new 1703 contemporary art fair, sponsored by the Kremlin-controlled Gazprom, overlaps exactly with the Swiss fair, which has long been a destination for Russian collectors

Stands offered for free at Liste, while some gallery workers are living on the art fair circuit, unable to return home

Russia-Ukraine war enters the spotlight at the Swiss fair with Isagus Toche's Chernobyl Bride work

Sites are suffering widespread destruction, but a coalition of organisations is working to provide evidence of deliberate targeting by Russian forces

British Council has so far failed to get extra emergency funding to save ravaged heritage

Aleksandr Shkolnik was added to list of sanctioned individuals by the UK and Australia, and is the first Russian museum director to be targeted

Hoard of medieval metalwork had been illegally mailed to the UK, and will be sent to Kyiv museum when safe to do so

Among the pieces are the first Fabergé Egg and a golden cigarette box made for the Rothschild family, which were both acquired by the oligarch Viktor Vekselberg

'Brave Ukraine' event—presided over by Christie’s and held at Tate Modern—shows a cultural crowd keen to distance itself from the oligarchs it once wooed

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

Around 200 valuable works had to be sent in five convoys of six trucks across Europe as war in Ukraine hampers shipping

Show opens ahead of Ukrainian President Zelenksy's address at the global summit

From demonstrations to a presidential address, the Biennale city continues to be a creative platform to criticise Russia's war

Student-run Shadows Project aims to defend Ukraine’s cultural history and has in its sights Western institutions that identify Ukrainian art and artists as Russian

The work was made in collaboration with local poet Viktor Solodchuk

The Russian artist Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov and Ukrainian artist Pavlo Grazhdanskij are currently residents at ISCP in Brooklyn thanks to sponsorship from the collective AES+F

Plus, the Cezanne blockbuster at The Art Institute of Chicago and Nicola L.’s Gold Femme Commode at Alison Jacques

For decades Russian billionaires were feted for their free spending on the arts. Now, they are officially personae non gratae. But what of the other individuals and regimes with dubious reputations?

The return of the Easter Egg on loan to the UK from Viktor Vekselberg’s Panamanian company could well now be complicated

Alekhina has been arrested six times in the past year for protesting against Putin and the Kremlin

The artist, who has widely been accused of being a fascist, believes that Russia's invasion of Ukraine will free the country from "a Nazi dictatorship”

Artists and dealers have donated works to the online auction raising money for the International Rescue Committee in Ukraine

Online articles by staff at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine show how items resonate with the war-torn country