NewsDiscoveries
Cache of Russian avant-garde works surfaces in regional museum's basement
Art historian Andrey Sarabyanov is planning a new exhibition of forgotten pieces by Kandinsky, Rodchenko and Stepanova
NewsPolitics
Russian government quits as Putin rewrites constitution—with the help of key cultural leaders
Directors of the State Hermitage Museum and State Tretyakov Gallery are part of a team enlisted to create laws that will allow the president to remain in power
NewsRussia
Pushkin State Museum to take control of nine contemporary art centres across Russia
Handover from Russian culture ministry is expected to be completed in early 2020
ArchiveArt market
The art market in Moscow is sustained by the new breed of super-rich businessmen—while their wives have opened a string of commercial galleries
“Most contemporary art collectors today are intellectuals who own their own company”
ArchiveForgeries
Russian avant-garde forgery case spreads to Israel
After hundreds of works are seized in Germany, police swoop in Tel Aviv
ArchiveNew Museums
Collector Shalva Breus turns Constructivist cinema into Moscow art space
Soviet-era unofficial artists and videos are on the centre’s agenda
ArchiveLawsuits
Dealer Gary Tatintsian takes Lew Nussberg to court over fake Malevich drawings after scientific analysis
The case has proved to be colourful, with Tatintsian counter suing Nussberg for at least $62m
ArchivePrivate Museums
Dom Icony brings icons to the blind in central Moscow
Created in consultation with the Russian Society for the Blind, Nadezhda Gubina and her husband Igor Vozyakov have created a didactic and tactile exhibition
ArchiveLawsuits
Widow and ex-wife battle over Russian collector Mikhail de Boire’s icons
When his former wife gave part of $30m collection to the Pushkin Museum, his last wife called in lawyers to determine the fate of 75 icons from north Russia
ArchiveChristie's
Christie’s sued by private Russian art collection over “fake” painting sale
Aurora Fine Art Fund claims it has conclusive evidence that £1.69m work is not by Boris Kustodiev
ArchiveArt market
Trends in collecting: Are domestic collectors ready to take on the world?
While the Russians are branching out, Indian collectors don't stray far from home
ArchiveRussia
Russian contemporary market squeezed as collectors turn to tried and tested work
Collectors look for safe options in a turbulent market
ArchiveFakes & copies
Rodchenko and Tatlin fakes force closure of Russian avant-garde exhibition at Finland's Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art
Operations were halted after multiple experts questioned the authenticity of the exhibition's content, which had been sourced from private collections
ArchiveCollectors
Collector Stella Kesaeva’s plans for a new gallery in her garage
The Moscow-based collector has amassed a hoard of Russian contemporary art
ArchiveFrieze
From Russia with art: meeting London's newest gallerists
Are these women the real deal?
ArchiveCollectors
Russian art collector could face seven years in prison
Vladimir Nekrasov has been charged with corporate tax evasion
ArchiveFabergé
Russian collector’s in negotiations to open Fabergé museum
The proposed museum will open at Baden-Baden in the autumn
ArchiveArt market
Ukrainian artists lead the day at Kiev auction
Yet secrecy over values remained a priority at the Art Kapital auction
ArchiveRussian art
Russian art collective AES+F celebrates 20th anniversary with retrospective
Tate acquires edition of video shown at this year’s Venice Biennale
ArchiveRussia
Russian government publishes first volume cataloguing fakes in the market
Russia’s Federal Cultural Heritage Protection Agency is set to publish the first volume of a catalogue of Russian paintings known to be fake
ArchiveArt market
Eighth year of strong Russian art sales in New York
This sales report demonstrates the intense interest in Russian late 19th-century classical paintings, early 20th-century modernist paintings, and Fabergé works
ArchiveArt market
Swedish and German auction houses take advantage of the rising Russian Market
A growing number of mid-size European auction houses are trying to cash in on the Russian boom
ArchiveArt market
Dealer and critic head to head over Chubarov painting
Was the price forced up at Sotheby's sale?
ArchiveAuctions
“There is so much money in the market now that... price seems to be irrelevant”
Oil-rich private collectors are dominating the salerooms and pushing aside dealers and investment funds
ArchiveRussia
Billionaire to open first private museums in Russia
Viktor Vekselberg will establish galleries in St Petersburg and Moscow to display his own art as well as works belonging to other private collectors
ArchiveCollectors
Russian billionaires are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on art. None of them has spoken to the press about what drives their collecting—until now
Russian collector Pyotr Aven shows his hand
ArchiveJoseph Beuys
News from New York: Major Beuys work tipped for Beacon, while eco-artists discuss decomposition
And Connecticut energy broker Andrew Hall buys Georg Baselitz’s collection of German art
ArchiveKazimir Malevich
Malevich painting finally authenticated
Traces of Malevich's signature found on 1913 painting
ArchiveExhibitions
Holy Russia at the V&A, touring exhibition is repackaged for the UK
Via many points in the US
ArchiveCollectors
George Costakis' dramatic tale of collecting the Avant-Garde in the Soviet Union: His own words
Some of his most prized works are now on show in the New York Guggenheim exhibition “The Great Utopia: the Russian and Soviet Avant-garde 1915-32”
ArchiveFakes & copies
Touring Russian Avant-garde Exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle goes on amid disunity amongst curators and the inclusion of possible forgeries
The show will proceed to to the Guggenheim despite confusion arising from a lack of transparent communication between Russian and US committee members