Crime International Authorities Seize Nearly 10,000 Illicit Cultural Artifacts and Make 52 Arrests in the Latest Wave of Crackdowns Authorities have recovered 147,050 looted cultural goods since launching Operation Pandora in 2016. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 10, 2022
Op-Ed Three Years Ago, I Had Dinner With Vladimir Putin. What He Told Me Makes Me Fearful for Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage My impression then, as now, is that Putin fundamentally views Russian culture as indisputable evidence of superiority. By Maya Asha McDonald, Mar 9, 2022
Op-Ed Russians Live in a Police State. Don’t Write Off Its Art Professionals for Failing to Exercise Freedoms They Don’t Have Calls for blanket boycotts lack understanding of the realities of art in Russia. By Anton Svyatsky, Mar 8, 2022
Politics Photographers Are Mobilizing to Sell Prints to Benefit Ukraine—Here’s Our Running List of What You Can Buy Where You can collect art and support Ukrainian relief efforts. By Artnet News, Mar 8, 2022
Op-Ed I Grew Up Behind the Iron Curtain. Isolating Russia’s Art and Artists Will Not Help Us Achieve Peace A cultural boycott is not the answer. By András Szántó, Mar 7, 2022
Politics Two Artists Traveled to Kyiv Last Month for an Opening. They Ended Up Staying to Build Metal Tank Traps for Ukrainian Forces Ukrainian painter Volo Bevza and photographer Victoria Pidust found themselves stranded in a war zone. By Katya Kazakina, Mar 7, 2022
Politics Dissident Artists Applaud France’s Decision to Cancel a Matisse Loan to China in Protest of Its Silence on Russia "It's the least the international art world can do," said one exiled Hong Kong artist. By Vivienne Chow, Mar 4, 2022
Politics Directors of Russia’s Top Art Museums and Fairs Are Resigning En Masse Leaders at the Pushkin Museum, the VAC Foundation, and the Cosmoscow fair have stepped down. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 4, 2022
Op-Ed Why Artist and Museum Merchandise Is the Next Major Growth Category for the Ever-Expanding Art Market Museums, galleries, and even individual artists are clamoring for a piece of the growing pie. And it's only just beginning. By Elliot Safra, Mar 3, 2022
Politics Russian Oligarch Vladimir Potanin Steps Down From the Guggenheim’s Board After Two Decades Potanin was one of a group of oligarchs who met with the Russian president at the Kremlin last week. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 3, 2022
Op-Ed Russian Cultural Elites Want to Call This Putin’s War. But They, Too, Bear Responsibility for the Atrocities in Ukraine How the long-running political passivity of many Russian intellectuals paved the way to the current war with Ukraine. By Oleksandr Vynogradov & Lisa Korneichuk, Mar 2, 2022
Politics Russian Billionaire Petr Aven Resigns as a Royal Academy Trustee as Arts Institutions Face Mounting Pressure to Cut Ties with Russia The museum says it returned the donation Aven made to support its current Francis Bacon exhibition. By Vivienne Chow, Mar 2, 2022
Politics ‘Everything We Say Can Be Used Against Us’: Russian Art Workers Weigh the Risks of Speaking Out Against the War in Ukraine Actions that were once considered risky are now in many cases outright dangerous. By Sarah Cascone & Katya Kazakina, Mar 1, 2022
Politics Russia Has Bombed Babyn Yar, Site of a Memorial to Ukrainian Jews Executed by Nazis At least five people were killed and another five were injured in the incident. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 1, 2022
Politics Oscar Murillo, Tai Shani, and Other Artists Are Pulling Their Work From a Manchester Museum to Protest Its Director’s Ouster The former director faced backlash after staging a show that supported Palestine. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 28, 2022
