InterviewArt market
'No one feels ambivalent towards Russia': Jo Vickery on leaving Sotheby's, launching her art advisory and looking beyond politics
Despite its size and power, Russia is a blindspot for the international art market but Vickery wants to change that perception
NewsExhibitions
Original or fake? Museum Ludwig puts its Russian avant-garde art to the test
New exhibition reveals 22 falsely attributed works discovered in German museum's collection
ArchiveArt market
Elaborate, traditional pieces sold well at the latest auctions
Chinese and Russian buyers with a taste for the ornate have added a new layer of bidding and are forcing prices ever higher
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”
ArchiveFakes & copies
National Institute of Independent Expertise founded to root out fakes in Russian art market
The organisation, the brainchild of coin collector Vladimir Kazakov and The East European Auction house, aims to ensure that the provenance of a piece has been checked via an unbiased system
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
ArchiveArt fairs
Financial crisis scuppers Moscow World Fine Art Fair
Exhibitors fear that collectors will no longer make high-price purchases
ArchiveGagosian Gallery
No expense spared for Gagosian’s second Moscow venture
70 works to be installed in riverside factory
ArchiveArt market
Dealer and critic head to head over Chubarov painting
Was the price forced up at Sotheby's sale?
ArchiveArt Basel in Miami Beach
Russian collectors at Art Basel/Miami Beach
“It’s like a supermarket”
ArchiveArt Basel in Miami Beach
Most Russian collectors are at Art Basel Miami Beach to learn rather than buy
Russian collectors approach fair with care…
ArchiveAmedeo Modigliani
Modigliani sold to Russian buyer
The artist's portrait of Picasso is now part of a Moscow private collection
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
ArchiveMoscow
Moscow dealers to open art centre in former wine factory
Businessmen and collectors fund $4m complex
ArchiveFakes & copies
Fake art: “Criminality in the Russian art market has reached alarming levels”
Tretyakov curator speaks out and admits being taken in by forgers
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