Russia

At Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, the late Russian artist’s paintings of faces consider what it means to be human

Russia’s artists see Olga Lyubimova as a chequered figure – but anybody has to be better than her predecessor

The influence of Isaac Levitan’s 1897 painting Spring, High Water on 20th-century film

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In further news: German pavilion announces artist for Venice; Emmanuel Macron urges art world to fight extremism

Pyotr Verzilov is in a critical condition in a Moscow hospital after losing sight, speech and mobility

The artist and activist, who spent two years in jail for performing a ‘punk prayer’, was stopped from travelling to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe

There are perils in deploying bigotry to score political points, but meanings also shift from West to East

‘I am for free Pussy Riot,’ the performance artist says, in solidarity with jailed members of the Russian punk-feminist collective

The punk artists’s invasion of the pitch during the Croatia vs. France match reminded us what Russia’s new ‘normality’ really means

The punk activist-artists have been charged with disruption after they charged the field during the France vs Croatia match

Serpentine swimmers complain about Christo’s floating pyramid; and Hermitage’s psychic cat is a World Cup oracle: the latest in art world silliness

A new series of screenings in New York tells a bracing account of filmmaking under the Russian leader

Pussy Riot and the commodification of protest, a tale of shakshuka, and books of the mind: what to read this weekend

A slew of exhibitions commemorates the centenary of the Russian Revolution 

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

Filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa’s exploration of the post-Soviet condition

The consequences of Russia’s cultural policies

From Russia to the UAE — to boycott or not to boycott?

By putting Pussy Riot on trial, the Russian authorities inadvertantly made them a household name