Russian painter Nikas Safronov's 'Dream Vision' exhibition in Delhi portrays cross-cultural design | Watch

Nikas Safronov calls this approach 'Dream Vision', a technique that blurs the line between reality and imagination, making ...

Erik Bulatov, Russian Painter Who Undermined Soviet Propaganda, Dies at 92

For years he lived a double life, secretly making anti-Communist paintings. He found fame in the late 1980s, once his work ...
The American Conservative

Derussifiying Russian Art

Andy Warhol was definitely not a Ukrainian. The artist was born into a family of Ruthenian descent and raised in a Pittsburg ethnic ghetto. By the time his generation came of age, his ties to the ...
Artnet

America Must Ensure That Russia Does Not Evade Sanctions. Here’s How the Art Market Can Help

In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States has led an unprecedented effort to isolate Russia’s economy. It has frozen Russian assets, restricted trade and financial flows, seized ...
Hyperallergic

In Minneapolis, a Russian Museum With an Identity Crisis

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, the Museum of Russian Art (TMORA) in Minneapolis took quick action. The following day, on its social media accounts, the museum posted ...
Artnet

Putin Has Ordered a State Museum to Return Russia’s Most Precious Icon to the Orthodox Church, Raising Panic Over Its Fragile Condition

Russia’s most famous icon, and one of Russian art’s greatest achievements, the 15th-century icon Trinity by the legendary painter Andrei Rublev has resided at the State Tretyakov Gallery since the ...
New York Post

Russian art curators have reportedly helped loot dozens of Ukraine museums

Russian art curators have reportedly led raids on approximately 30 Ukrainian museums since last years invasion, guiding the pilfering of ancient artifacts from the war-torn country. Across Ukraine, ...
MinnPost

At Museum of Russian Art, an exhibit that speaks to the continued plight of the Ukrainian people

Soaring high above Leon Hushcha’s other artworks at The Museum of Russian Art is a thin purplish blue bird with giant yellow-orange wings. The wings are splattered with red, like blood, and hang low, ...
Forbes

Finland Seizes $46 Million Worth Of Russian Art Over EU Sanctions

Three shipments of Russian art en route to Moscow and St. Petersburg from Italy and Japan, where they were loaned out for museum exhibitions, were detained by Finnish customs last week as part of ...
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Russian Art Museum Raided Amid Investigation Of Former Director

Russian police have conducted searches at the PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art in the city of Perm, as well as at the home of its current director, in connection with a case against former director ...
Time

Russia Cracks Down on Political Art

On June 11, Alexander Shchednov, known in Russia’s art circles as Shurik, was hanging up a collage outside the town hall in the southwestern city of Voronezh. The image showed the face of a ...