The inclusion of Russia in the line-up of the 2026 Venice Biennale art fair has sparked international outcry, with the ...

By hosting a pavilion again this year, Russia continues its efforts to shed its status as a cultural and sporting pariah.

Whilst the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale is causing controversy, there are also works in Russia striving to move ...

Russia's Venice Biennale pavilion was closed after the Ukraine invasion but, as the Winter Paralympics show, Russia is now ...

The E.U. warns it may suspend Venice Biennale funding if Russia stages a pavilion as political tensions over the war in ...

In the fifth year of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, the Russian pavilion is set to return to the Venice Art Biennale with a “musical festival come to life” that serves as “a space for ...

The petition, signed by cultural figures such as Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova, comes as the European Union threatens to pull Biennale funding over Russia's inclusion.

After a four-year break, Russia is returning to the Venice Biennale. Mikhail Shvydkoi, Russia's delegate for international cultural exchanges and the country's former culture minister, said that ...

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in the winter of 2022, the rock group Bi-2 was on a nationwide tour. The group, a stalwart of the Russian music scene for more than two decades ...

When art collecting brothers Ron and Roger Pollard purchased a handful of paintings at an online auction in 2004, they had no idea what they were in for. The pieces, bought from a seller in Germany, ...

Looking to shake off Moscow’s cultural influences, Kyiv has been seeking to highlight the Ukrainian roots of Kazimir Malevich, a renowned avant-garde painter. By Constant Méheut Reporting from Kyiv, ...

The Venice Biennale is facing broad condemnation for its decision to let Russia participate for the first time since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with countries calling on the art festival ...