Looted Ukrainian Painting Sells for $1 Million At Russian Auction House
A painting titled “Moonlit Night” by Ivan Aivazovsky fetched approximately $1 million at Russia’s Moscow Auction House on February 18…. Read More
22 February 2024
Russia
Restituted Franz Marc Painting Achieves £42.6m At Inaugural Christie’s Shanghai Sale – Ukraine Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Bombed By Russia – Jerwood Donates £5m Gallery To Hasting’s Contemporary
Christie’s has launched the inaugural 20th/21st Century: Shanghai to London sale series with staggering results. This pioneering cultural dialogue between… Read More
2 March 2022
Major Sean Scully Exhibition Set To Tour Russia
The internationally acclaimed abstract artist Sean Scully is to launch a major touring exhibition in Russia following a series of highly successful exhibitions in China. The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow will host the first, opening on 3 November 2017.
20 October 2017
Russian Political Performance Artist Pavlensky Applies For Asylum In France
The Russian performance artist Petr Pavlensky best known for nailing his scrotum to Red Square and his partner have fled the country after being accused of “violent actions of a sexual nature”
18 January 2017
Russian Owned Phillips Auctioneers Appoints Edward Dolman As New CEO
Edward Dolman, the executive director and acting chief executive of The Qatar Museums Authority has revealed that he is taking… Read More
30 July 2014
Pussy Riot Members Sue Russia In European Human Rights Court
Two of the Art-Punk band Pussy Riot members jailed for hooliganism are suing the Russian government over their imprisonment for… Read More
29 July 2014
MANIFESTA 10 Opens To The Public In Contentious St Petersburg Russia
MANIFESTA 10 opened to the public yesterday on 28 June 2014, in St. Petersburg, Russia. As a location, St. Petersburg… Read More
29 June 2014
Major YBA Art Exhibition Highlighting UK-Russia Year of Culture Cancelled
The British Council’s exhibition of YBA (Young British Artists) has been cancelled due to a lack of funding and sponsorship…. Read More
5 June 2014
Artist Nails Scrotum To Red Square In Protest Of Russian Police State
Pyotr Pavlensky, 29, a performance artist has been arrested in Moscow after stripping naked and driving a nail through his… Read More
11 November 2013