Art & Exhibitions Dozens of Ukrainian Artworks Were Secretly Rescued From Kyiv Hours Before a Russian Missile Attack. Now, They’re Going on View in Spain Courtesy Museums for Ukraine. By Vivienne Chow, Nov 23, 2022
Politics The Organizers of Ukraine’s Venice Biennale Pavilion Say They May Not Be Able to Stage the Event ‘Due Ukraine has been invaded. The Russian Federation attacked a peaceful independent nation of Ukraine. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 24, 2022
Art & Exhibitions The Kyiv Biennial Will Open ‘Against All Odds’ in Several Cities in Ukraine and Europe This Fall The program will start in Kyiv, Ukraine, and head to Vienna, Austria, in October. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jul 28, 2023
Politics Dissident Artists Applaud France’s Decision to Cancel a Matisse Loan to China in Protest of Its Silence on Russia Security Council resolution condemning Russia for its war on Ukraine. By Vivienne Chow, Mar 4, 2022
Politics ‘We Are Pessimistic About the Future’: Shudders Run Through Ukraine’s Art Scene as Tensions with Russia Museum of Historic Treasures of Ukraine, Kiev. By Dorian Batycka, Feb 4, 2022
Museums & Institutions Winterizing Monuments, Digitizing Archives: How Ukraine Is Fighting to Preserve Its Cultural Heritage In a recent interview posted to the WMF site, Goncharova stressed the important of cultural heritage By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 27, 2023
Law & Politics Russia’s Culture Minister and One of Its Most Prominent Art Patrons Are Now Facing Sanctions in the West , or stability or security in Ukraine, or which obstruct the work of international organizations in Ukraine By Artnet News, Dec 20, 2022
Politics Banksy Just Revealed Seven New Artworks He Created on Bombed-Out Buildings Throughout Ukraine—See Them The post has since received more than 2 million likes, and the secretive artist has confirmed that he By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Nov 14, 2022
Politics Photographers Are Mobilizing to Sell Prints to Benefit Ukraine—Here’s Our Running List of What You Can In the days since Russia invaded Ukraine, individuals and organizations have been stepping up to raise By Artnet News, Mar 8, 2022
Politics Volodymyr Zelensky Makes an Urgent Plea at the Venice Biennale for the Art World to Shine a Light on Ukraine Earlier in the evening, the First Lady of Ukraine also delivered a message, concluding: "We in Ukraine By Julia Halperin, Apr 21, 2022
Politics Uber Has Launched Uber Restore, a Special App in Ukraine to Help Transport Art Conservators Since the war began in February, the initiative has been launched in 12 cities in Ukraine. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 16, 2022
Museums & Institutions An Artist’s Collection of 15 ‘Significant’ Ukrainian Works Returns Home Installation view of “Wandering in Oneself” at the Center of Intellectual Art Mercury in Lviv, Ukraine By Adam Schrader, Jun 20, 2024
People The Ukraine Is Reclaiming Art From Deposed President’s Government Buildings photographing Yanukovych's opulent treasures for the world to see (as seen in this piece from the Washington Post By Sarah Cascone, Mar 20, 2014
Politics Superyacht Belonging to a Sanctioned Oligarch and Art Collector Will Be Auctioned Off to Benefit Ukraine A $200 million superyacht belonging to a sanctioned oligarch will be sold at auction to benefit Ukraine By Artnet News, Dec 6, 2022
Art World Odessa’s ‘Harry Potter’s Castle’ Destroyed in Russian Missile Strike Artworks that Ukraine identifies as stolen have even come to auction. By Brian Boucher, Apr 30, 2024
Museums & Institutions Hiding Art in Basements, Returning Loans, Reopening as Bomb Shelters: How Ukraine’s Museums Are Handling View this post on Instagram By Sarah Cascone, Feb 25, 2022
Politics Museum Professionals Accuse Russia of Cultural ‘Genocide’ and Ethics Violations in Ukraine at a Major Most strikingly, Anastasiia Cherednychenko, the vice-chair of ICOM Ukraine, called for the expulsion By Sarah Cascone, Aug 22, 2022
Politics Russia’s War on Ukraine Raises Alarm Bells in Other Former Soviet Nations—Here Is How Their Cultural His work looks at post-USSR life. His mother is from Ukraine. By Kate Brown, Mar 22, 2022
People French Actor Gérard Depardieu Blacklisted By Ukraine’s Minister of Culture French actor Gérard Depardieu has been banned from entering the Ukraine for the next five years. By Christie Chu, Jul 30, 2015
Art & Exhibitions Manifesta Wants to Bring the Roving Art Biennial to Ukraine—and Have Former Host Cities ‘Adopt’ the Country’s Now, the groundswell of European support of Ukraine may have turned the tide. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 27, 2022
