Analysiscoronavirus
Russian museums in crisis: State Hermitage projects losses of almost half its annual revenue after closing for two months
Loss of tourism and oil market crash because of coronavirus pandemic wreak havoc as institutions seek state help
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Moscow’s new GES-2 arts centre delays grand opening to 2021
Coronavirus uncertainty postpones Ragnar Kjartansson exhibition, but power plant museum still aims to welcome locals this year
PreviewExhibitions
Biggest ever Dalí show comes to Russia—where his work was banned during the Soviet era
More than 180 works will feature in the Moscow exhibition including a section focusing on Dalí's Russian-born wife Gala
PreviewExhibitions
Was Peter great? Moscow exhibition details tsar’s huge cultural impact
An avid patron of the arts and sciences, the emperor gave Russian society a new perspective on the world and elevated the country’s place within it
NewsRussia
Moving to the suburbs: vast museum collections centre destined for 'New Moscow'
State Tretyakov Gallery among 23 Russian museums planning to store and show works near former killing field Kommunarka
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Former Stedelijk director Beatrix Ruf will head to Moscow's Garage Museum
The German curator was previously accused of conflicting interests between the Amsterdam museum and her private consulting work
NewsMoscow
Austro-Russian project looks beyond Red Square to find the real Moscow
Multi-institution programme aims to introduce contemporary art to the capital's residents
NewsBiennials & festivals
Moscow Biennale opening marred by 2017 controversy
Event’s president Julia Muzikantskaya accused of allegedly threatening artists and withholding payments
NewsGES-2
Russian billionaire's huge Moscow art hub—designed by Renzo Piano—will open in September 2020
Leonid Mikhelson says that the "frightening" cost that he had initially anticipated for the GES-2 complex has doubled
NewsContemporary art
Ragnar Kjartansson re-creates US soap opera for vast GES-2 culture complex opening in Moscow
GES-2 complex is located in a former power plant, built in 1907, located near the Kremlin
NewsArt crime
Man who stole painting in broad daylight from Moscow museum is sentenced to three years in prison
Denis Chuprikov took the landscape from State Tretyakov Gallery with the aim of "causing hype", he says
NewsPolitics
The artists at the forefront of Russia's democracy protests
Street art and digital art used as tools of subversion, as artists themselves bear the brunt of a brutal government crackdown
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”
NewsConservation & Preservation
Moscow Kremlin Museums say ‘bravo!’ to restorers
State regalia, Russian icons and decorative pistols go on show in exhibition celebrating the hidden craft of conservation
PreviewExhibitions
Shock tactics abound at 'carbon neutral' show in Moscow, with a live wolf, jellyfish and bees
Garage Museum's exhibition on the environmental crisis takes up the gallery’s entire space and could be the biggest yet on the topic
PreviewExhibitions
Ilya Repin remains the provocateur in Moscow show
Visitors of a certain age may well be shocked to find that ultimately the Russian artist loathed the Bolsheviks as much as he did the tsars
NewsPrivate Museums
Grand opening of Russian billionaire’s power-plant museum is postponed to 2020
GES-2 will be part of Moscow's Museum Mile, linked to Garage, the Tretyakov and the Pushkin
NewsArt theft
Thief of Crimean painting at State Tretyakov Gallery apprehended
Brazen incident raises questions about museum security in Russia
PreviewExhibitions
Lost Frida Kahlo painting and Diego Rivera mural at centre of new show looking at couple’s Russian links
As the exhibition opens in Moscow, curators hope a photograph of the missing work might jog the memory of any witnesses
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Moscow residents petition Garage Museum to reject sponsorship from property developer
Activists say PIK Group's high-rise developments are environmentally unsafe and only aimed at making "super profits"
NewsTechnology
Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery develops blockchain app to bring Russian art to the world
Digital initiative will invite users to explore and sponsor more than 190,000 works in the collection
BlogIn the frame
Catnapped: abduction of moody moggie Begemot from Moscow museum sparks media frenzy
NewsRussia
Putin praises Moscow's urban development in wake of World Cup success
But Russian president's remarks at eighth Moscow Urban Forum angered preservationists
NewsConservation & Preservation
Russia opens new exhibition centre dedicated to icons
The Grabar Art Conservation Center has launched the Ovchinnikov Ikonoteka space, which is named in honour of renowned restorer
PreviewExhibitions
Juergen Teller tackles football’s highs and lows in Moscow show
Exhibition at Garage Museum includes stalker-like snaps of Pep Guardiola and live work charting Germany’s World Cup success—or failure
NewsPhilanthropy
Russian billionaire’s Peri Foundation will keep paying for culture after arrest
It is business as usual, says the organisation’s director, as its founder, Ziyavudin Magomedov, remains in custody awaiting trial on racketeering charges
News
Moscow museum opens archives of Stalin's Gulag labour camps
New research centre helps descendants discover fate of their family members
NewsExhibitions
Soviet renaissance man El Lissitzky gets major double-show in Moscow
Exhibition of 400 works opens at State Tretyakov Museum and Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
ArchiveState Pushkin Museum
Director of Pushkin wants to work with London’s V&A and help Moscow’s homeless design museum
The Pushkin design satellite will have both historic and contemporary design galleries
ArchiveMoscow
Tate Modern is our model, says director of Pushkin museum
Maria Loshak seeks industrial space for Modern and contemporary art satellite in Moscow
ArchivePrivate Museums
Moscow collector Mkrtich Okroyan opens Art Deco museum
Objects include a mixed media panel suite by Pierre Bobot from the Roseland Ballroom in New York
ArchiveLGBTQ
Emin slams Russia over gay rights
Moscow’s Ekaterina Cultural Foundation is set to host a retrospective of the Young British Artists
ArchiveRussia
The Ratnaya Palata gets a fresh start with new WWI museum
Russia sets sights on high-tech war museum without a Marxist-Leninist bias
ArchiveMoscow
Sweet factory could be Moscow’s Tate Modern
It will be part of a larger development that will include office space, retail outlets and swanky lofts
ArchiveMoscow
From shtetl to spectacle at the Russian Jewish Museum and Centre of Tolerance
Constructivist-style bus garage transformed into high-tech Jewish museum in Moscow
ArchiveNew Museums
Collector Shalva Breus turns Constructivist cinema into Moscow art space
Soviet-era unofficial artists and videos are on the centre’s agenda
ArchiveMoscow
How a group of dissident artists was almost catapulted to international stardom by a marketing error
The story of Moscow's underground art of the 1970s
ArchiveInterviews
The scoop on Russia: Interview with Milena Orlova
Milena Orlova, the editor of The Art Newspaper Russia, discusses the market, collectors and why Russia needs an art newspaper
ArchiveFakes & copies
Pushkin accused of displaying a fake
Growing concerns over authenticity of Modigliani portrait on show in Moscow museum
ArchiveArtist interview
Why paintings succeed where words fail: Interview with Luc Tymans
The Belgian artist talked to us about the messages art can convey on the eve of exhibitions in Europe, Russia and the United States
ArchiveMark Rothko
Disgraced Madoff investor’s Rothkos turn up in Moscow
J. Ezra Merkin offloads $310 million collection
ArchiveArt fairs
Financial crisis scuppers Moscow World Fine Art Fair
Exhibitors fear that collectors will no longer make high-price purchases
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
ArchiveGagosian Gallery
No expense spared for Gagosian’s second Moscow venture
70 works to be installed in riverside factory
ArchiveMoscow
Russian art dealers released after a year in jail without trial
Couple claim that forgery accusations were the result of a property deal gone sour
ArchiveMoscow
Moscow dealers to open art centre in former wine factory
Businessmen and collectors fund $4m complex
ArchiveCommercial galleries
Russia’s largest private gallery opens
Collector and dealer Alexander Yakut's new enterprise is his most ambitious yet
ArchiveRussia
Russian Court sanctions Church censorship
Director and curator charged with “incitement of national, racial, or religious enmity”
ArchiveRestitution
Incoming Russian minister dismisses German restitution claims
Alexander Sokolov does not seem interested in returning looted art
ArchiveKazimir Malevich
Malevich “Black square” goes to the Hermitage
The journey of the painting has ended
ArchiveKazimir Malevich
Moscow property development threatens site of Malevich grave
Local authorities have not been sympathetic towards Malevich's estate where he was buried
ArchiveExhibitions
Morozov's music room reconstructed in the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
Exhibition of Russia's two most famous fin-de-siècle collectors now on in Moscow
ArchiveState Pushkin Museum
Collecting and collectors are the material of a new museum opening this month as part of the Pushkin Museum
Russia changing stance: It was all a terrible mistake, we love collectors really!
ArchiveRestitution
Russians "close down restitution commission"
Internal conflicts hamstrung the effort to return war loot to Germany
ArchiveLooted art
The creation of a Russian-German Commission for the return of works of art: The Russian will to return war booty exists, the necessary laws do not
Long delays are foreseeable as approaches to restitution vary in both countries
ArchiveRestitution
Yeltsin’s Commission for Restitution begins work this month to legalise and declassify war booty
This includes finally addressing the disputed Koenigs Collection
CommentLeaders
Egon Schiele was not a sex offender
The 100th anniversary of Austrian artist’s death has arrived just in time for the #MeToo movement
Jane Kallir