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The Museum of Repressed Writers in Tbilisi was created to remember the creatives who were silenced by the Soviet Union. But, after months of political tension, the future of the museum hangs in the balance
Levan Chogoshvili's first large-scale solo show in the country will take place at the Atinati Cultural Center
The director of the Zimmerli Art Museum, which is home to the world's foremost collection of Soviet nonconformist art, says recent calls to censor all Russian art in light of the war in Ukraine oversimplify the issue
Boris Iofan, a Jewish architect born in Odesa—whose buildings included the Communist behemoth the “House on the Embankment”—built what the dictator demanded, creating architecture as an instrument of power
Andréi Nakov, a leading expert on Malevich, has produced a large-scale study of the Russian avant-garde's art and life
Though reconstruction efforts after the devastation of war differed wildly between the two cities, the dialogue will be vital to conservation efforts
Sikorski says that it would be better to have a park in its place
Museum retains 79 works on long-term loan from the City of Amsterdam
Meanwhile, Mark McGowan gets a helping hand on his commute while Richard Wentworth loses his marbles
Unlike the heirs of Nazi victims, the descendants of collectors whose art was appropriated by the Bolsheviks are unlikely to have it returned
A French plaintiff says he deserves a percentage of exhibition ticket sales at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art because the works on display were taken from his grandfather after the Russian Revolution
The painting is currently with Russia's Culture Ministry, though Malevich's heirs dispute the bank's original ownership
A lawyer’s comment on the RA's 'From Russia' exhibition and the laws that were pushed through to protect it
A medieval stained-glass window to return to Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, while Germany will pay for the rebuilding of a 14th-century church in the Pskov region
As the Red Army pushed back the Nazi invaders in 1944, a pair of Soviet art historians compiled a list of masterpieces from Europe’s museums to be brought back to Moscow
After a long, strange journey, the Lubomirski Museum Dürers are now subject to restitutions claims by both Poland and the Ukraine
Negotiating the restitution of religious art is important, but it should not be at the expense of the institutions protecting Russia's cultural heritage
Exhibition, “Under the Sign of the Red Cross”, showing works by Rozhdestwjenski, disciple of Suprematist founder Malévich, is one of many before "Premierentage"
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”
Czartoryski Museum and Library converted into foundation with advice from London art dealer, Andrew Ciechanowiecki
Conference papers of the 1988-89 touring exhibition are scutinised
A commission will be set up at Gorbachev’s behest to look into cultural property removed to U.S.S.R.
Glasnost has unveiled the ill kept secret of thousands of works of art, of archives and libraries taken to the USSR
The safeguarding of these places of global, cultural importance will increase
The group of Lille and Soviet artists, designers, and architects will collaborate to produce an original culture park
Are these acts a citizens’ protest against the situation in which the country now finds itself, or are they merely vandalism?
The exhibition draws works from galleries and museums across the globe to display a chronological retrospective
Soviet collectors appeal for protection from KGB