The research and the conference are devoted to further examining this vital period in Russian art, and addressing the importance of Vitebsk as the, seemingly unlikely, center of avant-garde activity during the devastating years after Russia's 1917 October Revolution. Following the increasing lack of stability…

The Russian Museum has received a generous donation of 160 graphic works by Malevich from Nina Suetin, the daughter of Nikolai Suetin, a famous Russian Suprematist artist. Having passed away in 2016, Nina was an architect by trade, however she was not only the director of…

“This exhibition guides the visitor through a detailed and thorough retelling of one of the most vibrant and pivotal periods in Russian contemporary art ,” explains Chief Curator, Alisa Bagdonaite. “Timur Novikov and the New Artists managed to build up around them a creative position…

The exposition is dedicated to the lovers of famous Russian painters. Included in the show, but not limited to, are painters like Ilya Repin, Mikhail Vrubel, Valentin Serov, Boris Kustodiev, Igor Grabar, Petr Konchalovsky, Boris Grigoriev, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Alexander Deineka, Robert Falk, Konstantin Yuon, Sergei…

The organizers of the  “Wives” exhibition, dedicated to the wives and lovers of famous Russian painters, have prepared a series of educational events to accompany the exhibition.  
“Wives” takes a closer look at the women in the lives of famous Russian artists, this allows the…

The Tretyakov Gallery is currently hosting “The Legend of the Town of Sviyazhsk”, an exhibition which focuses on the historical significance of the town. The show features several icons and 16th century manuscripts which tell the stories of the the military expedition, the town’s foundation, …

Portugal is currently preparing for its Russian Culture Week, the event is scheduled for October this year. Although the program is yet to be finalized, the embassy of Portugal in Moscow promises it will be rich and eventful.
In order to discuss the matter of…

Critical Mass: Moscow Art Magazine 1993–2017 is the newest release, which marks the 100th issue of the journal. Since its very first issue was published back in 1993, the Moscow Art Magazine has continuously set the agenda for Russia’s ever-changing art scene.  
The journal remains…

The most satirical and playful Russian artist of the nonconformist movement, Leonid Sokov, has passed away in New York. According to his close circle of friends, his death was sudden and the artist passed away from an unexpected heart attack.  
Leonid Sokov was born in…

The Harris Museum & Art Gallery is offering a unique experience in icon painting. The workshop will be led by the artists of St Elisabeth Convent in Minsk and will reveal the mysterious techniques of traditional icon painting with egg-tempera. The participants will learn the…

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, photo by Rodionov Publishing House
The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg is about to launch a large retrospective of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. The exhibition has travelled to Russia from Tate in London and will move to the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow…

The city of Vladimir, just outside of Moscow, hosted the third Rozanova Symposium dedicated to the Russian avant-garde and one of it’s most famous figures. The queen of Russian avant-garde, Olga Rozanova, was one of the pioneers of the movement famous work her work in…

The Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery in Moscow has launched the exhibition "In the circle of comrades. 180th anniversary of the birth of I.N. Kramskoy ”. The exposition includes about 60 paintings and graphics from the collection of the Voronezh Art Regional Museum, including early drawings…

The exhibition titled “Every trade has it’s smell and taste” is currently running at the Kiev National Picture Gallery. The concept of the show - 80 paintings and lithographs by old masters which showcase the different crafts and professions of the 19th-20th centuries. The artists…

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts has recently received a valuable donation in the form of the work by one of the famous Russian avant-garde artists, Robert Falk . The artist was one of the founders of the “Jack of diamonds” collective and was…

The project “Resident” will unite the museums in Russia and former countries of the USSR. In 2018 and 2019, the VDNkH exhibition centre will play host to several exhibitions which will allow the museums to present the key works in their collections alongside with gems…

“In recent years "Sunset in the steppe" by Aivazovsky, "Portrait of Obolensky" by Tropinin, "Turkic girl" by Bryullov, "Girl in a red kerchief" by Kramskoy, and many other paintings by famous Russian artists have been stolen from the museums of Uzbekistan. Most of them are…

The GARAGE museum of contemporary art in Moscow is preparing to launch its brand new “Atom”, part of the Garage Square Commissions. The project is a reconstruction of one of Vyacheslav Koleichuk’s monumental kinetic sculptures, and an homage to one of Russia's key figures of…

The Lviv National Museum is currently hosting an exhibition of paintings by the father of Russian Futurism David Burliuk. The exhibition, which features over 50 works sourced from private collections, is a unique opportunity to see the works of the famous painter of the Russian…

The AZ Museum, named after the artist Anatoly Zverev, has launched a brand new retrospective of the artist, which coincides with the 3 year anniversary of the museum.
The AZ Museum has a large collection of Russian art from the 60s. 600 works by Zverev…

The Russian State Museum is celebrating the 140 year anniversary of the birth of the famous Russian artist Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878-1939).
The exposition will feature work from across the artist’s career, and promises to offer visitors a rare chance to see Petrov-Vodkin’s masterpieces alongside the…

Over the past years, Tate Modern has been uniting Russian and international art and continues to work together with artists, collectors and philanthropists to include Russian art in the Museum's global conversation. Below is a translated version of The Art Newspaper interview with the curators…

The Tretyakov Gallery has announced the recipients of grants for scientific research in the field of fine arts. The search for unknown paintings by Vasily Vereshchagin and the study of the archives of Ilya Repin in the United States will be supported by the scholarship…

Today, social networks are the most organic ways for museums to announce new exhibitions, promote ticket sales and distribute information about artists. Furthermore, social media allows various establishments including museums to increase audience engagement by posting engaging and educational content and participating in online events…

On the 10 May a brand new exhibition of Russian art will launch at the URMII, the Udmurt Republican Museum of Fine Arts. The exposition will feature Russian icons as well as around 40 paintings by famous Russian artists across the centuries including Apollinary Vasnetsov,…

Forbes is a global media company, focusing on business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership, and lifestyle. Furthermore, every year the company releases a list of the wealthiest millionaires. According to Forbes, the main trends of the Russian art can be observed through the collections of those…

An anonymous benefactor has offered to pay the penalty imposed on the National Gallery in Ottawa for recalling the “Eiffel Tower” (1929) by Marc Chagall from a Christie’s auction. The Museum was hoping to use the money in order to purchase the neoclassical masterpiece by…

Below is a translated version of the original interview in Russian by The Art Newspaper, the original can be found by following the link here .
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Huge scandals associated with counterfeiting of Russian avant-garde broke out in the beginning of this year in Europe…

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is proud to announce Chagall: The Breakthrough Years, 1911–1919, an exhibition featuring over 80 paintings and drawings by the legendary artist.
Marc Chagall was born in Vitebsk in 1887 to a Hasidic Jewish family. He was growing up in a very…

The upcoming exhibition titled “Time of Change. The Drawing of the Mid-19th Century” will continue to introduce the patrons of the Gallery to the 19th century drawing and is part of the “The Tretyakov Gallery Opens its Vaults” program.
The exhibition is dedicated to the…

Iconography is a kind of medieval painting, religious in themes and subjects and iconic in purpose. In the most general sense, iconography is the creation of sacred images intended to mediate between the divine and earthly worlds, whether facilitating for individual prayer or in the…

The Museum of Russian Impressionism has proudly announced their upcoming exhibition dedicated to revealing that the world-famous Russian avant-garde would not have been possible without the influence of Impressionism.
The exposition reveals the influences of the French Impressionism and postimpressionism, which served as a stepping…

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is proudly presenting its upcoming exhibition in honor of Russia hosting the Football Word Cup this year. This small exhibition titled “Rodchenko and Stepanova. Football” will include 9 paintings, graphic works and photographs on the topic of football.
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The painting of Nicholas II, the last Russian tsar executed by the Bolshevik’s over 100 years ago, has since hung in an officers’ mess in Edinburgh Castle. However the picture m is currently being loaned to the National Galleries of Scotland for a lengthy period…

Leading the recent Christie’s auction sale was Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematist Composition achieving nearly $86m — the new world record for the artist. Painted in 1916, the picture is considered one of the finest and most complex of the artist’s early geometric works, capturing Malevich’s vision…

On the evening of 25th of May, a visitor smashed the glass of the famous Ilya Repin painting “Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan” (1885) with a metal pole, resulting in three gashes and serious damages to the canvas and original frame.
The painting…

Auction overview Christie’s is the market leader in Russian works of art, including works of Fabergé, porcelain, bronze, silver, and objects of art. Each year as per tradition, the audition house participates in the London Russian Art Week with its top lots.
The Christie’s auctions,…

Auction overview
The Sotheby’s auction house is the second auction in line at the London Russian Art Week 2018. Following the two successful Christie’s auctions yesterday, Sotheby’s presents several lucrative lots in today’s sale.
The highlights include but are not limited to Kazimir Malevich’s The…

The Tretyakov Gallery has released new information regarding the recent case of vandalism the gallery experienced on the 25 of May. The 37 year old man, entered the gallery right before closing time, and slashed the protective glass of the “Ivan the Terrible and his…

The Russian Avant-Garde Research Project (RARP) has announced the results of their grant-funded research at the Museum Ludwig. Over the last year, Art Analysis & Research worked together with the Museum, examining the collection of 14 paintings by 20th century Russian artists Natalia Goncharova and…

The exhibition centers around the concept of mercy and prayer — crucial, central elements in both western and eastern Christianity. Mercy as well as prayer are both important manifestations of the Christian faith and are integral to the daily life — these two concepts are…

The exhibition “Russian Dadaism 1914 — 1915” will officially launch tomorrow at Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofia. The exposition features 500 works, including 250 paintings, collages and drawings, 150 documents and publications and 22 film and audio recordings.
“Russian Dadaism 1914 — 1915” is a dive…

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art has announced the acquisition of a rare lithograph, Proun 2B by El Lissitzky, one of the key figures of the Russian avant-garde.
Lissitzky was born in 1890 to a Jewish family in Smolensk. Before eventually becoming one of the…

In November, the exhibition "The Russian Path. From Dionysius to Malevich" will open in the Vatican. Its co-curator Arkady Ippolitov reveals which works were selected in order to combine iconography with the XIX-XX centuries and show the spiritual path of Russian art. The article below…

The Tretyakov Gallery houses a collection of work by artists of international magnitude like Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and many others.
From the 5th of June to the 25th of July, FAN-ID holders will be granted free of admission entry into…

The international event will take place from 28–29 June and will coincide with the last days of the “Russian icons, prayer and mercy” exhibition held at Castello Svevo di Bari. The conference will be attended by the leading experts in the field from Russia, Italy…

Princess Hisako Takamado is the first member of the Japanese imperial family to visit Russia in over 102 years — the last time was in 1916 during the World War I. Princess Takamado arrived in Saransk, Russia’s Mordovia Republic, for the FIFA World Cup match…

The Great Gatchina Palace was built in Gatchina, a suburb of the royal capital Saint Petersburg. The Palace was constructed from 1766 to 1781 for Count Grigori Grigoryevich Orlov, who was a favourite of Catherine the Great. The ornate Palace combines the elements of classical…

The recent slashing of the priceless Ilya Repin painting “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan” has reignited the discussion of security in Russian museums. The last time it was brought up was in 2015 following an attack on the “Sculpture which we do not…

The State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki possesses the legendary collection of George Costakis, one of the most significant collections of Russian art outside of Russia. The museum opens a new page in its history with a brand new exhibition of Russian avant-garde based…

Leonid Lamm was perhaps one of the most versatile artists of the Soviet nonconformism, as well as Russian-American contemporary art.
Born in 1928, the artist’s oeuvre was heavily inspired by a variety of movements and Lamm based his creative explorations around various styles and approaches.…

The Belosselsky-Belozersky collection has travelled the world, formed in the mid-18th century Russia by philosopher and poet Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Belosselsky-Belozersky, it travelled to Finland, London, Massachusetts and now it has arrived in Georgia. Today, it still belongs to the same family.
The collection will…

The Museum of Russian Art is the only museum in the North American continent which is dedicated entirely to Russian art  and culture. It was founded in a renovated Spanish Colonial-style church by a Minneapolis businessman Ray Johnson in 2002. From August 21 the institution…

The famous painting, beautifully executed by the hand of one of the most significant Russian masters of the early 20th century, is preparing for a journey to the East. The canvas will travel across Russia, making stops in Chelyabinsk and Satka on the way to…

The solo-painting exhibition at the Russian Museum will feature the one of a kind, complete portrait of a member of the Russian royal family — the portrait of the Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna, daughter of Nicholas I.
The painting itself is noteworthy for its great…

The London Science Museum will host the “Last Tsar: blood and revolution” exhibition, which has been designed to coincide with the 100 year anniversary of the execution of the Russian Imperial family.
The project focuses on the lives of the family of Tsar Nicholas II,…

The uploading of Museum collections to the Internet is a project carried out by the Department of Culture of Moscow and the Moscow Department of Information Technology. The project was launched in hopes of not only increasing availability of the exhibits to the public but…

The story of the Soviet sculptor Dmitry Tsaplin (1890 — 1967) is tragic, absurd and undeniably interesting. The artist never experienced huge success in the USSR, however he later gained recognition in Europe where he remained for several years before eventually returning home. Tsaplin was…

During the Great Patriotic War, hundreds of various exhibits including several priceless works of Russian avant-garde and valuable icons disappeared without a trace.
Currently, The Kramskoy Museum of Fine Arts in Voronezh possesses an impressive collection of over 20,000 exhibits, however 1232 of the original…

A sensational discovery has been made in St. Petersburg when a painting by an unknown artist was brought in for restoration. Following a thorough investigation, the specialists have attributed the work to the famous Russian artist, but who is the mysterious sitter?
The painting was…

The Suprematist painting by legendary artist Kazimir Malevich  at the Stedelijk Museum was it’s pride and joy, that is until the canvas was sold at auction for $85,8m thus becoming one of the most expensive works of Russian art on the market. 
When the painting sold…

Russian billionaire Andrei Filatov bought a chateau in the French commune of Saint-Émilion where he combined French wine with Russian and Soviet fine art.  
The story began when Filatov, one of the 200 richest Russian businessmen on the official Forbes list, began collecting Russian and…

The State Tretyakov Gallery in collaboration with the Republic of Tatarstan present the exhibition "The Genius of the Age" — the very first in the series within the long-term program which will feature several major exhibition projects in Kazan and Moscow.
The exhibition is dedicated…

The visitors at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow are now able to use virtual reality in order access and explore the studios of two legendary painters of the early 20th century.
The tech company VRTech Group has recreated the studios of two famous Russian avant-garde…

From July 25 to August 26 in the Bashkir State Art Museum named after Mikhail Nesterov, an exhibition "Russian Landscape of the XIX - early XX century” is taking place. The exposition presents works from the collection of the museum which are rarely ever exhibited.…

The painting titled “Afghans” by 19th century Russian painter Alexander Yakovlev has finally returned to the town of North Attleboro in Massachusetts, USA after 11 years in storage at Sotheby’s.
The painting was originally donated to the North Attleboro School Department by W. Charles Thompson…

Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery has stirred up a storm of controversy after an attempt to curb the amount of unauthorized tours, when regular visitors began complaining after they were told to stop talking by security guards.
The Tretyakov Gallery officials have said that unofficial tours have…

The Tretyakov Gallery is preparing a large retrospective of Mikhail Larionov, one of the founding fathers of Russian avant-garde and one of its acclaimed leaders.
Larionov had a big influence on the development of Russian art of the 20th century — he was a talented…

The preliminary sketch for the painting of the dome of St. Isaac's Cathedral by Peter Basin is on display for the visitors of the Cathedral. Whenever discussing the beautifully executed paintings of the St. Isaac’s Cathedral, usually the artists being praised for this impressive feat…

Around 80 outstanding works by Russian impressionists will be on show from 28 August at the Nizhny Novgorod Art Museum.
The Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum, in continuation of a series of exhibition projects in collaboration with leading Russian museums, will exhibit 80 paintings by…

The first quarter of the 20th century was a time of serious turbulence in Russia: two wars, the Russo-Japanese (1904-1905) followed by the First World War (1914-1918), revolutions and the civil war after which Russia had begun its red experiment.
These major sociopolitical catastrophes…

The Jewish Museum in New York is launching a brand new exhibition in September, titled “Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: The Russian Avant-Garde in Vitebsk, 1918-1922”. Through approximately 120 works, the exposition explores the legendary yet little-known chapter in the history of modern Russian art.
The 1917…

The water damaged painting “Woman with buckets” by Russian avant-garde artist Aleksandr Shevchenko is currently awaiting restoration by specialists from the Pushkin Museum. Meanwhile, the Friends of the Museum of Nucus foundation continues its ongoing confrontation with the establishment.
The incident took place at night at…

An unusual exhibition dedicated to XX century decorative tavern mats has opened at the Museum of Russian lubok and naive art in Moscow.
The exposition is comprised from items borrowed from collector Andrei Sazonov who has graciously lent several picturesque oilcloths, veneers and mats from…

Today, the legendary Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow is celebrating a new milestone: 125 years ago, the Gallery was officially open for the public.
Pavel Tretyakov began collecting art in the middle of 1950, however it wasn’t until six years later in 1956 when he purchased…

The exhibition will be dedicated to the iconic work of Russian landscape artist Arkhip Kuindzhi, arguably one of the most significant and intriguing Russian artists  of the XIX century.  
Kuindzhi painted incredibly unique romantic landscape paintings. Although his work was grounded in realism, the artist’s rendition…

The Russian museum plans to explore the origins of the international movement of Expressionism in Russia through an exhibition of painting and graphic works.
This exposition is actually part of an ongoing exhibition project, designed to address the major styles and movements within 20th century…

Not long before the opening of the Ilya and Emilia Kabakov retrospective at the Tretyakov Gallery, the artists decided to hand the legendary space over to the Museum.
From the early 1970s to the late 1980s, Ilya Kabakov's workshop, located in the attic of the house…

The director of the Tretyakov Gallery, Zelfira Tregulova, has announced that that the Museum will organize two exhibitions abroad this Fall. The first one, “Russian path: from Dionysius to Malevich”, in the Vatican while the second exhibition “Masterpieces of Russian art from the collection of…

Today the brand new exhibition "St. Isaac's Cathedral. To the history of creation" opens its doors in the Benois building at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg. The exhibition coincides with the 200th anniversary of the Cathedral and reveals the complex history of its interior…

The priceless works by the Russian master painter Karl Bryullov from the collection of the Russian Museum have arrived safely in Vladivostok.
The staff at the Primorye State Art Gallery unpacked a total of 15 boxes containing valuable works of art. This is the first…

A new exhibition is opening in Moscow, dedicated to the famous Soviet painter, the people’s artist Georgy Nissky.  
Nissky was born on January 8, 1903 and is considered to be the founder of the so-called severe style, and a master of the industrial landscape. He…

The painting by the legendary Russian landscape painter Arkhip Kuindzhi is traveling from the republic of Buryatia to make an appearance at the upcoming artist’s exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
In his later work, Arkhip Kuindzhi was concerned with capturing nature’s expressive illuminative…

The Exhibition Hall of the Zaryadye Park Media Center is proud to present the upcoming exhibition titled “Depicting Russia”. The exposition will be made up from 55 landscape paintings by 36 outstanding Russian artists from the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery.
The exhibition is…

A solo exhibition of the work by Russian artist  Vassily Nesterenko titled “Oh, Russian land!” is opening on the 6 September in the Nizhny Novgorod State Exhibition Complex. 
Nesterenko was a realist painter, working within the traditional framework of classical Russian painting. Although rather faithful to…

The huge exposition titled “Roerich. Preserving culture” features an impressive total of 396 works brought together from the collections of the Roerich Museum and the State Museum of Oriental Art.
The exposition consists of various exhibits from the legacy of the Roerich family, including 300…

The Primorye State Art Gallery is currently offering a wonderful program of three exhibitions: “The Head of Ares”, “The Great Karl” (You can read more about the Karl Bryullov exhibition here ) and “Akademia. The journey from Italy to St Petersburg”. 
The latter exhibition features side…

The Bashkir State Art Museum named after M.V. Nesterov is proudly presenting an exhibition of XIX — XX century French and Russian paintings.
The exposition features a total of 43 works of art from the collection of Moscow collector Inna Bazhenova. It includes work by…

On Friday, the Polish border control confiscated an undeclared work of art on the border with Ukraine, a painting signed in the corner with Marc Chagall. 
The press secretary of the customs administration in Lublin, Marta Shpakovskaya, told the news correspondents that the customs staff discovered…

The exhibition of paintings by Pavel Ryzhenko "From Veche to the Throne" had recently opened at the Fund of Slavic Literature and Culture.
The project features 12 of the artist’s large scale canvases depicting historical events which have led to the formation of the Russian…

An unusual exhibition of Alexander Deineka’s graphic works is opening at the State Museum of Architecture is Moscow.
The famous Soviet artist Alexandr Deineka is known for his iconic painting — his work is often thought to be a prime example of the Socialist Realist…

The Russian Museum in St Petersburg is offering two brand new exhibitions of Russian avant-garde paintings at its Malaga branch in Spain. The exhibitions are centered around the work of Kazimir Malevich  and David Burliuk.
The first European branch of the Russian State Museum opened…

The Yaroslavl Art Museum has launched a brand new exhibition of works by famous Russian painter Zinaida Serebriakova from the collection of the Russian Museum in St Petersburg.
The Russian Museum possesses one of the largest collections of Serebriakova’s work which includes over 60…

Traditionally, since the 1920s it has been custom to exhibit the work of Mikhail Larionov side by side with the work of his partner and fellow artist Natalia Goncharova.
Which is why the Tretyakov Gallery is offering a unique opportunity to see the work…

The TANR spoke to Lord Poltimore, the chairman of the Russian branch of Sotheby's about the market prospects of modern Russian art, about his experience shooting a Hollywood blockbuster and how to sell glasses for $660k. You can access the original interview in Russian here…

The State Russian Museum in St Petersburg is proudly presenting the upcoming exhibition of never before seen drawings by the master of Russian avant-garde Kazimir Malevich.
No doubt, the paintings by Malevich held in the collection at the Russian Museum are of the highest…

A rare and unique icon called “The meeting of righteous Joachim and Anne at the Golden Gate” has travelled to the Museum of Russian Icon from the Pskov Museum Reserve for an unusual one-exhibit exposition.
The Museum of Russian Icon was established by Mikhail Abramov,…

The centre is responsible for giving a second life to icons, paintings, sculptures and other various exhibits in need of professional rescue. The establishment was opened 100 years ago and has since restored over 1000 objects.
In order to celebrate 100 years of successful…

The Director of the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow Zelfira Tregulova and theatre expert Olga Henkina have received the French Order for merits in art and literature from the visiting French ambassador Sylvie Bermann. The official ceremony was held on Wednesday at the Embassy of France.…

The Grabar centre 100 year jubilee  exhibition titled “A age for the eternal” features the restored “skies” from the chapel of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God, which is located in the village of Khvalinskaya on the territory of the Kenozersky National Park.…

The exhibition highlights historical events, the nuances of day to day life and the the various cultural attractions of St Petersburg through archival photographs and postcards in the collection of the State Russian Museum in St Petersburg.
The photographs in the exposition continue the…

The Sankhip Hanji Museum in Istanbul will play host to the newest exhibition of 20th century Russian avant-garde. According to Turkish media, the exhibition will open in the second half of October and will feature an impressive amount of over 500 of these spectacular paintings.…

The exhibition, which celebrates 60 years since the birth of Russian artist and inventor of the Neoacademism movement Timur Novikov (1958 — 2002), presents 7 works from across the artist’s career.
Timur Novikov wasn’t just the the leader of his generation, he also became…

The painting by , as well as the album of drawings by the pupil and wife of Ivan Shishkin, Olga Lagoda-Shishkina, have been handed over to the museum by the Office of the Federal Security Service of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. 
In…

The exhibition of Leon Bakst’s theatre works at the Palazzo Chini in Venice will showcase the key works by the Russian master.
Most of the works shown at the exhibition, put together by the Chini Foundation in conjunction with the Center for the Study of…

The Museum of Russian Impressionism has proudly announced the brand new exhibition of the work by David Burliuk, one of Russia’s most colorful and unique painters .
The exposition is made up of over 50 masterpieces borrowed from 12 state museums and 10 private…

The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow is hosting an exhibition of work by legendary Russian landscape artist Isaac Levitan  from the collections of the The State Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Israel Museum and the Plyos Museum.
The exposition titled “Isaac…

The State Museum named after A.S. Pushkin and the Kovcheg Gallery in Moscow continue to explore the different cultural phenomenon of Russian everyday life through a series of exhibition projects. The theme of this brand new joint research was the birch tree.
Today it’s hard…

The Grand Palais in Paris will soon play host to the “Red” exhibition, featuring the work by great Russian masters on loan from the Tretyakov Gallery, State Pushkin Museum and the State Russian Museum.
According to the director of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and…

The scandalous story involving the former Director of the Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Ghent has reignited following a recent open letter from 60 artists and professionals speaking out against the suspension of Cathérine de Zegher.
Earlier this year, the MSK in Ghent, Belgium launched…

60 works from the collections of the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg as well as several private collections have been brought together to demonstrate the short lived relationship between the Soviet government and the Russian avant-garde.
Several art groups existed during…

The upcoming brand new exhibition at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg will feature the work of Lazar Khidekel, a member of the movement of Russian avant-garde and the world’s first Suprematist architect.
The exposition will consist of over 80 works by the master,…

The exhibition at the National Art Gallery of Yoshkar-Ola presents works of art from the 18th and early 20th centuries in the collection of the State Russian Museum.
The exhibition in Yoshkar-Ola features the work from the collection of the State Russian Museum, specifically the…

A brand new exhibition of Vologda icons has opened at the Museum and exhibition complex of Moscow state Academy of watercolors and fine art of Sergey Andriyaka.
The exposition titled “Icon of the Russian North 16th — 19th century” features not only the icons from…

The Sakıp Sabancı Museum in Istanbul is hosting the biggest and most comprehensive exhibition of Russian avant-garde in Turkey.
The exposition titled “Dreaming the Future: Russian Avant-garde Art and Design” focuses around the Russian art movement of the early 20th century which inspired and laid…

A number of works by this legendary Russian artist are currently presented at the “Davos in the Desert” conference to announce the upcoming show.
The works by famous Russian avant-garde artist Wassily Kandinsky from the Russian Museum in St Petersburg have been displayed at the…

The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has a long standing history of working with and in Russia. Over time, this well known institution has forged a bond with Russia and its various cultural institutions. Thanks to the efforts of the V&A, both UK and…

The Multimedia Art Museum presents the brand new exhibition of the work by Victor Pivovarov — one of the founders of the “romantic Moscow conceptualism."
Although having spent the last 40 years living in Prague, Pivovarov still considers himself a Moscow artist , and…

An exhibition of Russian landscape painting from the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow is currently taking place at the exhibition hall in the Zaradye Park.
The exposition consists of 55 works by 35 various Russian painters, featuring a variety of movements in…

The Garage Museum in Moscow has partnered up with the Rutgers University’s Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, New Jersey in order to digitize the Moscow Archive of New Art (MANI) — a collection of archival materials related to Soviet artwork, poetry and theory produced…

The gallery owners and husband and wife duo, Kati Marjatta Karkkiainen and Reijo Pollari, have been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay €13 million in damages for selling hundreds of forged artworks over the last five years.
The couple was arrested and sentenced by…

Rare icons and previously unseen works by famous Russian painters have been brought to Moscow from museums all over the country.
Over 300 works have been sourced from 50 regional museum collections from all across the country including museums in Vladivostok and Kaliningrad. It’s the…

The exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow is timed with the 200 year anniversary of the birth of one of Russia’s greatest, forgotten realists.
Sergey Konstantinovich Zaryanko was a portrait painter, master of the interior genre who was also known to paint icons…

The Russian Museum in St Petersburg is currently offering its visitors a comprehensive exhibition of the evolution of the image of Karl Marx in modern and contemporary Russian life and culture. The exhibition coincides with the 200 year anniversary since the birth of the influential…

He will forever remain in history as a legendary Russian artist and one of the leaders of the Russian nonconformism.
Oscar Rabin passed away on the 7 November at the age of 90 after a long and prolific career across two countries.  
Known as one…

The upcoming exhibition of sculpture at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg offers its visitors a chance to see the familiar scenes of Russian everyday life through the mid 19th century to contemporary sculpture.
Genre art is usually known for its application within the realms…

The Quiet Hour exhibition at the National Art Museum of Belarus will open on 15 November.  The exposition will center around the works by the talented 20th century landscape painter, Vitold Bialynitsky-Birulya, as well as his friends and contemporaries Igor Grabar , Abram Arkhipov, Stanislav…

The Rostov Kremlin Museum in Russia is celebrating its 135 year anniversary with the first major exhibition of Russian avant-grade paintings in its collection since 1922.
The collection was acquired in 1922 when it was passed over to the Museum by the IZO Narkompros (a…

This upcoming exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery explores one of the key images of the 20th century, the harlequin, through the work of three of the leading artists of the so called Silver Age: N. Sapunov, S. Sudeikin and K. Somov.
During the Silver Age,…

The winter Russian Art Week Russian Art Week of 2018 is quickly approaching, the exciting event this year falls on the 26–28 November and will feature nearly 1200 lots including around 650 pictures and sculptures, as well as over 530 works of art including icons…

The exposition titled “Romantic Russia” at Bunkamura concert hall in Tokyo features the work of distinguished Russian painters of the late XIX — early XX century.
The project is part of the ongoing cultural exchange  between Japan and Russia and follows the brilliant exhibition of…

The much anticipated Russian Art Week 2018 has launched with the first of its major auctions.
With the exception of MacDougall’s, the other auction houses this season are focusing on works of art rather than fine art sales. However, the fine art section of Christie’s…

The second day of the Russian Art Week 2018 has commenced with two auctions hosted by Sotheby’s: the Russian Pictures sale at 10:30am and Russian Works of Art, Fabergé & Icons at 2:30pm.
The Russian Pictures sale featured many incredible museum grade lots including Lot…

The third day of the Russian Art Week 2018  brings this year’s event to a close with three auctions lined up throughout the day: MacDougall’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams.
MacDougall’s hosted the Important Russian Art Sale at 10:30AM while the sale of a private collection of…

The very last sale of the season took place today at 3PM at the Bonhams auction in London.
The last auction of the Russian Art Week 2018 featured a number of great works with a total of 63 Fine Art lots offered.
The highlights…

Tretyakov Gallery has launched a wonderful interactive website , which offers the visitors a chance to browse through a timeline of Larionov’s artistic evolution, interactive features and archival materials.
The site is part of Tretyakov Gallery’s educational “Artists' Lessons” initiative — the series of sites…

In July, RA Gallery reported on the upcoming November exhibition in the Vatican titled "The Russian Path. From Dionysius to Malevich".
Last week, the exhibition officially opened to the public and on November 27 the brilliant exposition of Russian Art in the Vatican was visited by Pope…

On 29 November a brand new exhibition opened at Samara Art Museum in Samara, Russia, titled “Isaak Levitan and his contemporaries”.
The exposition features 22 works by the famous Russian painter Isaak Levitan and 20 works by his mentors Vladimir Polenov and Aleksey Savrasov as…

The exhibition at the Garage Gallery of the Doha Fire Station titled “Russian Avant-garde: Pioneers and Direct Descendants” was organized with collaboration with the State Tretyakov Gallery, and marks the conclusion of the highly successful Qatar Russia 2018 Year of Culture.
The exposition, which officially…

The upcoming exhibition at State Tretyakov Gallery is dedicated to the life and work of Ivan Valentinovich Nikolaev (b. 1940), who left a mark in Soviet art  history of the second half of the 20th century.
After graduating from the department of monumental and decorative…

The visitors of the exhibition and trade centre in Rostov-on-Don will be offered a chance to see the work by Russian master painter Viktor Vasnetsov in a new light.
The multimedia project titled “Vasnetsov. Russian fairytales” coincides with the 170th anniversary of the artist and…

The exposition consists of five masterpieces from the collection of Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum painted by famous artists of the second half of the XIX century.
The paintings have been displayed among the permanent collection of State Tretyakov Gallery and the visitors have a…

Museum of Russian Impressionism  is presenting a large exhibition of the work by extraordinary Russian artist David Burliuk. 
Burliuk was one of the creative innovators of the 20th century. He was not only a painter but also a poet, writer and curator. He organized several…

Countess Ekaterina Fyodorovna Junge was an artist , master of watercolor and a skilled portrait and landscape painter. She was born into the Tolstoy family of creatives in St Petersburg in 1843. Ekaterina was the second cousin to Leo Tolstoy. Her father, Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy,…

The Belarusian National Art Museum is offering the visitors an opportunity to see work from the collection of legendary Lidia Ruslanova — one of the greatest and most loved performers of Russian folk songs.
The exposition consists of work generously donated to the museum by…

Obninsk History Museum is currently offering its visitors an exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculptures by outstanding Russian masters, borrowed from various private collections.
The exposition titled “Song About Homeland” features a number of accomplished Russian painters including work by Plastov, Korzhev, Reshetnikov, Gritsai, Pereyaslavets,…

The Museum of Russian Icon in Moscow is currently offering its visitors a brand new exposition which consists of over 100 unusual icons from the Nevyansk Icon Museum in Ekaterinburg.
The Museum was established in 1999 by historian Evgeny Roizman. He travelled Russia, and collected…

The exhibition titled “Winter outside the window” will officially open at the Belarusian National Arts Museum on December 20.
The exposition will feature the work of several Russian and Belarusian masters from the 19th century to contemporary works. It will include work by Nikolai Sverchkov,…

2018 is coming to an end after a wonderful year of exhibitions, auctions and new research in the fieldRussian Art.
Today, RA Gallery  wishes everybody a Happy New Year and offers a peek into some of the upcoming exhibitions of 2019.
*** Ilya Repin. Retrospective State…

The large retrospective exhibition of the legendary contemporary Russian artist Erik Bulatov  is first in a series of events dedicated to the 85 year anniversary of the master.
The exposition features over 150 graphic works by this famous artist, borrowed from various private as well…

The Tretyakov Gallery is preparing the first solo Museum exhibition of the work by Russian artist Boris Golopolosov (1900–1983). 
The exhibition titled “Head Against the Wall” will feature around 40 paintings and 80 graphic works — original drawings, as well as works executed in gouache.…

The senior employees at State Russian Museum in St Petersburg claim that the $17m project is a threat to the Mikhailovsky Palace building as well as the collections housed within.
The staff of the State Russian have decided to take legal action against the institution…

Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow is currently preparing a large-scale exhibition of work by the famous Russian painter Ilya Efimovich Repin (1844–1930) — arguably one of the most anticipated exhibitions  of 2019.
The exposition will contain some of the artist’s best work created between 1870s —…

The brand new digital project aims to invite app users to explore and sponsor over 190,000 works in the collection of State Tretyakov Gallery.
The Museum is using blockchain technology in order to power the “My Tretyakov'' app, which will not only digitize the entire…

The museums and galleries of Moscow are currently offering a number of great exhibitions  over the winter holidays. Moscow Museum of Modern Art is currently hosting a large retrospective exhibition of Mihail Chemiakin curated by artist, Alexey Tregubov.
The exposition is organized in celebration of…

Christina Lodder is an accomplished Art Historian, writer, Honorary Professor of the History and Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent, President of the Malevich Society in New York, and the co-editor of Brill’s Russian History and Culture series. In 1983 she published her…

The Jewish Museum and Center of Tolerance in Moscow, partnered together with the “Encyclopedia of the Avant-garde”, has opened the registration process for the taught course led by Andrei Sarabianov. The registration is currently still open.
Andrei Sarabianov is a distinguished art historian, curator, the…

The painting in question "Ivan the Terrible" by Russian painter Mikhail Panin disappeared from the Dnipropetrovsk Art Museum during the occupation of the city in 1941 during the Great Patriotic War, and was recently discovered in Connecticut, USA.
The US authorities are planning to return…

The Museum of Russian Impressionism in Moscow is preparing an exhibition of work by Russian Impressionist Nikolai Meshcherin. The exhibition will officially launch in February, a day before Valentine’s day, which makes it a perfect destination for loved up couples.
Although the exposition launch is…

The Deineka Gallery in Kursk is offering a brand new exhibition featuring 60 paintings, painted by various European, Russian and Soviet artists between 17th — 20th centuries. The “In a new light” exposition is in many ways a continuation of the “Around the world” exhibition…

Today marks the inauguration of the major exhibition of Russian masterpieces at the Macao Museum of Art in Macao, China. 
The exhibition titled Masterpieces of Russian Art from the State Tretyakov Gallery features an impressive 70 paintings from the end of the 18th to mid-20th…

Museum of the History of St Petersburg is currently hosting an exhibition featuring 50 unique, previously unpublished movie posters from its collection. A portion of the exhibited posters can only be found in this collection, which makes the exhibition all the more exciting.
Furthermore, the…

The large exhibition of Russian art at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem features work by legendary Russian artists ranging from Malevich to Kabakov.
The works have been collected from major Museum collections across Russia and Europe including State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the State Hermitage…

The Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow houses one of the largest and most important collections of Russian art in Russia. The Gallery is currently offering excursions of its permanent exposition of 18th—19th century Russian Art.
During the excursion, the visitors will see some of the most…

The Prints and Drawings Room at Tate offers its visitors a chance to view prints, drawings and other works on paper not currently on display in the galleries. 

Tate possesses an impressive amount of work in its collection, including a large variety of prints, drawings…

A number of Russian media reported on the disappearance of the icon of the Virgin of Smolensk-Shuiskaya, which according to the Museum was discovered missing on January 24.
The whereabouts of the misplaced icon are currently unknown. The management of the museum reported the incident…

The theft was carried out during the exhibition hours, right in front of the Museum visitors.
The exhibition at Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow is dedicated to the iconic work of Russian landscape artist Arkhip Kuindzhi, arguably one of the most significant and intriguing artists of…

Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney is currently offering its visitors the last chance to see the works from the legacies of some of the most prominent modernists including Russian artists Wassily Kandsinky and Kazimir Malevich. The exhibition is closing on 3 of…

According to Mikhail Delyagin, the behavior of the staff at the Tretyakov Gallery following the incident is incredibly strange and warrants for suspicions regarding the authenticity of the recovered work.
Mikhail Delyagin is a Russian publicist, economist and the Director of the Problems issued by…

IN ARTIBUS foundation in collaboration with the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts present the exhibition titled “Nothing but harmony. Vladimir Weisberg. From the collections of Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and Inna Bazhenova."
The exposition unites two of the largest collections of works by Vladimir…

The Lecture Hall of the Tretyakov Gallery is a wonderful museum and educational center where you can get acquainted with the history and theory of Russian art, its various movements and genres, artistic styles and the works of the great Russian masters.
The collection of…

The Russian Museum in St Petersburg is preparing to launch a brand new exhibition of 17th century sacral Russian art.The exhibition will feature various exhibits from the collection of Russian Museum: books, jewelry, embroidery, icons and works of sculpture, which represent the nuances and the…

The “Family Portrait” exhibition from the collection of Russian Museum in St. Petersburg is ending on February 17 at the Arkhangelsk Museum of Fine Arts.  

The current exhibition at the Museum encompasses the period from 18th to 20th century and features work by a plethora of…

Chinese New Year is the Chinese festival which celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional Chinese calendar. The festival is known as the Spring Festival in mainland China, and is one of the Lunar New Years in Asia. In 2019, the first…

The previously unknown painting titled “Girl on the veranda” has been attributed at Museum of Fine Arts in Kaliningrad.
The picture was originally purchased by the Museum in 1989 — the oil painting was sold to them by one of the locals. Although the local…

On 7 February the exhibition titled “Petr Fomin. Nikita Fomin. Painting” opened at Mikhaylovskoye Museum Reserve.
The information service representative of the Pushkin Reserve, Lidiya Tokareva, spoke about the exhibition with the local media. According to her, the project is dedicated to the 100th anniversary…

The Russian Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and the Union of Museums of Russia recently published a joint statement on the improvement of protection of museum property.
The statement outlines several known security problems across national museums and proposes several suggestions of…

The staff at Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow is currently preparing for the blockbuster exhibition of famous Russian painter Ilya Efimovich Repin (1844–1930) — one of the most anticipated Russian Art events of 2019.
The exposition will present some of the artist’s best work created between…

The exhibition fully titled "The Russian Avant-Garde Collection of the Regional Museums, 1900-1930. Part 3" will open at the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan on February 17.
The project brings together a total of 60 unique avant-garde exhibits from the collections of 17 regional…

The City of Ghent and the ex-Director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent who lost her position following a scandalous exhibition of dubious works, Catherine de Zegher, have filed lawsuits against each other.
Last year, RA Gallery reported on the outrageous scandal which…

Due to the recent scandalous theft of the painting by Arkhip Kuindzhi from the exhibition in Tretyakov Gallery, its director Zelfira Tregulova has been reprimanded and brand new security measures have been installed.
Although the theft was not the first security breach  in the Museum’s…

The portrait of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin in Boldino, painted by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin in the 1930s, was thought to be lost until it was discovered underneath another work by the same artist.
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878–1939) is one of the most interesting and original Russian…

RA Gallery previously reported on the new exhibition  at Saatchi Gallery in London, featuring the work of Zurab Tsereteli — artist, philanthropist and director at Moscow Museum of Modern Art. The exposition reflects the artist’s diverse career, and represents his repertoire from painting and graphic…

State Tretyakov Gallery is always expanding its collection of XX – XXI century art, housed in one of the Museum buildings at Krymsky Val. Thanks to the generous gift by the company “Nexia Pacioli”, two more works by Russian artist Mikhail Nikonov (1928–2010) “Players I”…

The Russian American Cultural Center (RACC) in New York provides permanent cultural representation to the more than 700,000 Russian-speaking residents in the New York City Metropolitan area. In addition to supporting cultural awareness and understanding of Russian-American emerging artists, Russian history and culture, the RACC…

An open museum archive is by no means a brand new concept and many museums around the world have already embraced this trend. Now, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow has announced a decision to remodel by including a brand new building in the Museum town:…

Татьяна Юденкова, куратор ретроспективы Ильи Репина, которая откроется в Государственной Третьяковской галерее 16 марта, поговорила с TANR о художнике и о предстоящей выставке. Оригинал интервью на русском можно почитать здесь , а RA Gallery предлагает перевод для наших англоязычных читателей.
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Tatyana Yudenkova, curator of…

TV presenter and publicist Alexander Arkhangelsky has begun shooting a film about the now famous collection of Russian avant-garde in the museum-reserve "Rostov Kremlin".
The collection was acquired in 1922 when it was passed over to the Museum by the IZO Narkompros — a cultural…

The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis, United States is preparing to launch a new exhibition: “The Body in Soviet Art” from the collection of Russian 20th century paintings of Raymond and Susan Johnson.
The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA) was originally founded in 2002…

Признанный эксперт Русского авангарда рассказал журналу КП о фальшивых работах на стенах музеев, о художнике Николае Пунине и об интеллигенции прошлого. Оригинальное интервью на русском можно почитать здесь , а RA Gallery  ниже предлагает перевод для наших англоязычных читателей. 
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The recognized expert of the Russian avant-garde…

Exhibition in Dresden recounts a time when the city was one of the cultural hotspot for European avant-garde.
A brand new exhibition titled “Visionary Spaces. Kandinsky, Mondrian, Lissitzky and the Abstract-Constructivist Avant-Garde in Dresden 1919 – 1932” has opened at the Albertinum in Dresden, Germany. …

The Museum of Witold Kaetanovich Byalynitsky-Birulya in the city of Mogilev, is currently hosting an exhibition of painting and graphics titled "Landscape Classics" from the collection of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus. The Museum is named after the Belarusian Soviet landscape…

The exhibition at Krasnoyarsk Art Museum named after V.I. Surikov offers its visitors the opportunity to see more than 150 works by various Russian masters, including 60 paintings and graphic works by Vasily Surikov  from the collections of various Russian museums.
The main highlight of…

Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art named after Andrei Rublev is currently offering an exposition of scenes and interpretations of fire in the Christian tradition.
The exhibition features around 60 works including icons, wooden sculptures, objects of decorative art, graphic work, illustrated manuscripts and…

The spectacular seascape “The Ninth Wave" by Russian marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky has returned to Russia after being exhibited in Japan where it was seen by over 300,000 people.

The famous painting has safely returned to its permanent home at Russian Museum in St Petersburg…

The restoration of the painting by the Russian master painter Ilya Repin "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581", damaged by a drunk vandal  earlier this year, will begin in the second half of March. 
According to the director of Tretyakov…

The Russian Museum in St Petersburg is currently preparing for the launch of the first ever exhibition of Kazimir Malevich in Qatar.
According to the Deputy Director for Scientific Research of the Russian Museum, Yevgenya Petrova, the exhibition is the Museum’s first project in the…

The exhibition titled “The Human as a Frame for the Landscape” of work by Russian artist, writer, musician, and art theorist Pavel Pepperstein has opened at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow.
Pepperstein, born in 1966, was introduced to the circle of Moscow Conceptualists…

Ведущий специалист в области химических и биологических исследований Русского музея рассказала о том, как остановить окисление масляных картин и как микрохимия используется реставраторами и изготовителями подделок . Оригинальное интервью на русском языке можно почитать здесь , а RA Gallery предлагает перевод на английский язык для…

The brand new exhibition will offer its visitors the opportunity to see work by some of the most legendary Russian masters including Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Deineka, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and others.
The exposition brings together over 400 exhibits from major Russian museums: State Tretyakov Gallery and…

Today marks the day Mikhail Nesterov’s famous painting “Holy Rus” is leaving its home at the Russian Museum in order to be restored. The picture will be away for about six months.
According to the Museum staff, the canvas is in need of a much…

Natalia Murray was born in St. Petersburg where she gained BA and MA in Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts before taking the PhD course at the Hermitage Museum where she conducted research on the XVII century Dutch paintings and British reproductive mezzotint…

Two of the largest museums in Russia — Russian Museum in St Petersburg and Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, continue collaborating on projects despite the recent theft  of the Arkhip Kuindzhi painting “Ai Petri. Crimea” from the Tretyakov.
The painting, which was on loan from Russian Museum…

The Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton, Massachusetts has been selected by the British Museum in London to host their online catalogue for Byzantine and Greek icons, which features 32 historically significant works created between the 13th and 19th centuries. 

The online catalog features images…

The exhibition will feature the work of one of the most prominent Russian painters of the second half of the XIX— early XX century.
Tretyakov Gallery has already announced their upcoming exhibitions throughout the rest of 2019. Among them is a large retrospective of…

The director of Tretyakov Gallery, Zelfira Tregulova spoke with TANR about the reason the Museum is bringing the works of realist Geliy Korzhev, to Venice where it will be exhibited in Ca’Foscari alongside the Venice Biennale. The original interview in Russian is available here, and…

The exhibition at Institute of Russian Realist Art in Moscow will include the work by famous and lesser known Russian artists, as well as a number of unique archival documents providing a deeper insight into the the history of art of the Soviet Union.
The…

The exhibition at All-Russia Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art titled “Taymyr. Genius of the Place” is designed to show the unique culture of Taymyr Peninsula in the context of the classics of Russian avant-garde and Contemporary Russian Art.
The Taymyr Peninsula is a…

The collection of the Tver Museum has been replenished with confiscated goods, when following the initiative of Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Domodedovo and Vnukovo customs handed over more than a hundred objects of cultural significance to the Museum.  

On April 3, an…

An exhibition of paintings by Soviet and Russian artists opened on the 29 March at the Harbin Museum. The exhibition titled “Echo between the works of Russian artists and Chinese poetry” features over 150 paintings and became somewhat of a platform for Chinese-Russian cultural exchange.…

An exhibition of paintings by the Russian artist Isaac Ilyich Levitan  (1860–1900) will open in the main building of the Plyos State Historical-Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve in August 2019.
Isaac Levitan was born into a poor but educated Jewish family — Levitan’s father Elyashiv Levitan was…

Over 100 works on the subject of fairytales have arrived to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk from the collection of State Russian Museum in St Petersburg.
The exhibits have been brought over from St Petersburg for an exposition celebrating the anniversary of the company Sakhalin Energy.
The selection includes…

The masterpieces by Russian painters Nikolai Ge, Ivan Kramskoy, Ivan Aivazovsky and Arkhip Kuindzhi became part of the “Moon” exhibition, which opened last week at the Grand Palais exhibition center in Paris. Marc Chagall's “Blue Landscape" adorns the exhibition poster. 
The project celebrates the 50-year…

Russian Art Week is a major international art fair which takes place bi-annually, every June and November, in London. During the week the four major auction houses in UK: Christie's, Sotheby's, MacDougall's and Bonhams offer a programme of sales featuring Russian paintings and other objects…

The work in question is a picture which became the star of the 2014 Malevich exhibition at the Tate Modern: a portrait of a bohemian Russian woman holding a red purse, identified as the stage designer Elizaveta Yakovleva.
Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935) is one of the…

The permanent exposition of Museum of the Roerichs will officially settle in its new permanent residence in the former Healthcare Pavilion at the end of April.
The Museum of the Roerichs was relocated to Pavilion No. 13, former Healthcare building, in 2018, due to the…

В интервью с журналом Forbes Life Петр Авен рассказывает, во сколько оценивает свою коллекцию русской живописи , почему в его доме все еще висят поддельные работы и как бросание монеты определяет судьбу картин в его коллекции. Оригинальная статья на русском языке доступна на веб-сайте Forbes…

An exhibition of work by one of the most famous portrait artists in the history of Russian Art has opened in Nizhny Novgorod at the Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum.
The exposition titled “Tropinin. Contexts” is the first joint project of the NNSAM and the…

The decision to halt the project, was announced last Wednesday by the director of the State Russian Museum, Vladimir Gusev.
The project, estimated at $20 million, of which $2.5 million was allocated by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, will no longer be implemented:…

Этим летом исполняется 220 лет со дня рождения одного из величайших литературных гениев России.
В связи с этим юбилеем, Государственный музей А.С. Пушкина представляет экспозицию из более чем 300 портретов различных жанров, включая живопись, скульптуру и графику. 
Проект был организован совместно с Всероссийским музеем А.С.…

Only a month remains until the closing of the VR exhibitions at Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
Earlier this year, State Tretyakov Gallery, in partnership with VRTech Group, announced the launch of the world’s first fully immersive virtual-reality-enhanced exhibition: ‘’Goncharova and Malevich: In Three Dimensions’’ dedicated…

The Museum of Russian Icons inspires the appreciation and study of Russian culture by collecting and exhibiting one of the world’s largest collections of Russian icons  — sacred paintings used for veneration in the Orthodox tradition. With more than 1,000 icons and related artifacts spanning…

The painting “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581” painted by famous Russian painter Ilya Repin was infamously damaged by a drunk vandal on May 25 of last year.
The offender grabbed one of the metal fence posts and smashed the protective…

The traveling exposition titled “Romantic Russia” features the work of distinguished Russian painters of the late XIX — early XX century.
The current project is part of the ongoing cultural exchange between Japan and Russia and follows the brilliant exhibition of Edo period art at…

In the last five decades, the Christie’s auction house has achieved an incredible reputation for their exceptional expertise and for offering objects of the highest quality and provenance.Christie’s shared history with Russia began back in the 18th century when James Christie negotiated the sale of…

The exhibition titled “Crimea in the works by Arkhip Kuindzhi” is dedicated to the iconic work of Russian landscape painter Arkhip Kuindzhi, arguably one of the most significant and intriguing Russian artists of the XIX century. 

This exhibition at Russian Museum is located in the…

Fragments of more than ten paintings were found during the submarine expedition "Neptune" on the ship that sank in 1895. Among them are supposedly works by famous Russian painter Ivan Aivazovsky.
The steamer lies at the bottom of the sea at a 40-meter depth just…

Tate Modern proudly presents the first in UK retrospective exhibition of Natalia Goncharova  — famous Russian artist and one of the leaders of the Russian avant-garde movement of the early 20th century.  
Because the exhibition is the first of its kind, most of the works…

С 17 мая по 30 июня в Картинной галерее Волжского будет работать выставка под названием «Архип Куинджи. Иллюзия света». Здесь будут представлены как ранние этюды Куинджи, так и его самые известные произведения.
В экспозиции — 53 картины, выполненные в технике жикле, позволяющей полностью воссоздать произведение…

“Still Life with Lilacs” painted by famous Russian artist Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin will be exhibited in the Moscow space of Christie’s  auction house between 16–17 May.
The master’s work can be viewed in Moscow for just two days. It’s one of the top lots of the upcoming…

Today we’re taking a look at another top lot from the upcoming Russian Art Week 2019 summer auctions in London.
The painting in question is a colorful still life painted by one of, if not the most famous Russian avant-garde artist — Mikhail Fedorovich Larionov.…

Tretyakov Gallery is currently offering its visitors the reconstructed exhibition of works by sculptor Anna Golubkina "In favor of the wounded", which was held in Moscow in 1914–1915.
The Russian artist and sculptor Anna Golubkina (1864–1927), known for her relief “The Wave” above the entrance…

Today we have chosen another interesting top lot from the upcoming auctions of Russian art at the Russian Art Week 2019 in London this summer.
Last week, we looked at the still lifes of Mikhail Larionov and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin , and today we chose one…

A rare portrait by the Russian painter Philip Maliavin (1869-1940) is to become one of the top lots of the Russian auction of the Bonhams auction house, which will be held in London on June 5 as part of the Russian Art Week 2019. The…

RA Gallery has already reviewed some of the top lots of the upcoming Russian Art Week auctions in June — still lifes by Larionov  and Petrov-Vodkin , “Bakhchisarai”  by Kustodiev and a beautiful portrait  by Malyavin. However, the summer auctions will also feature many other…

Today we are taking a look at another lot from the upcoming in June auction of Russian art at Christie’s in London. This time we would like to draw your attention to the “Recling Nude”, also known as “Etude (Nu)” painted by Konstantin Makovsky.
Although…

Today we’re moving away from the nude and taking a look at the wonderful stormy seascape by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900) painted by the master in the later years of his life, in 1882.
Aivazovsky was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the…

Russian Art Week 2019  is only a weekend away, and we are eager to introduce to you another interesting lot from the upcoming auctions. Today we’re looking at Lot 64 at MacDougall’s — Konstantin Yuon’s characteristic winter “Landscape with Skiers” (1915).
Konstantin Yuon (1875–1958) was a…

Russian Art Week was launched by in 2011 as a network designed to bring together all of the major sales of Russian Art at Sotheby’s, Christies, MacDougalls and Bonhams auction houses in London.
Today, the week long event also encompasses several Russian and Eastern European…

The much anticipated first day of Russian Art Week 2019 has successfully launched with the first of its major auctions. The first event of the week concluded in the mid afternoon after a lively auction and 105 out of 145 lots sold in the fine…

The second day of the Summer Russian Art Week 2019 has begun with the Sotheby’s sale held at 10:30AM today in London.
The auction finished in the early afternoon after a successful sale of 123 out of 164 lots with a sale total of £10,417,875.…

The auction portion of the Summer Russian Art Week 2019 is coming to an end with the last two events of the season: MacDougall’s “Important Russian Art Auction” sale held at 10:30AM and Bonhams “The Russian Sale” to be held at 3:00PM this afternoon.
The…

The very last auction event of the summer Russian Art Week 2019  began today in the mid afternoon at 3:00PM in London.
The sale featured many wonderful lots by famous Russian artists including Konstantin Korovin, Ivan Pokhitonov, Philip Maliavin, Natalia Goncharova, Alexandre Benois, Sergei Sudeikin,…

Almost £36m was made from the sale of Russian Art at the Russian Art Week 2019 by the four largest auction houses: Christie’s , Sotheby’s , MacDougall’s and Bonhams.Yesterday marked the end of the summer Russian Art Week 2019. The results of the event confirmed…

Tate Modern Museum in London has proudly opened the first UK retrospective exhibition of Natalia Goncharova, a famous Russian artist  and one of the leaders of the Russian Avant-garde movement of the early 20th century. 
Goncharova had a rather exciting and prolific career. She established…

An exhibition of photographs taken by the famous Russian painter, titled “Boris Kustodiyev: photography, painting”, has opened at the fine art museum in Kirov named after the Vasnetsov brothers.
The exhibition features about 100 photographs from the collection of the Astrakhan State Art Gallery, as…

Ivona Malevich, the granddaughter of Anton Malevich, the artist’s younger brother, has created the Malevich Family Foundation, which will start operating this summer in Warsaw.
The foundation’s plans include not only popularizing the artist’s work, but also tracking Malevich’s fakes on the art market, as…

The Museum of Russian Art  has a new executive director following the sudden departure of the last director Vladimir von Tsurikov.
Mark Meister, 65, was the founding director of the Minnesota Children’s Museum in St. Paul. Meister opened it in 1981 and ran it until he…

From June 13 — August 19, 2019, the exhibition “Angels of the Twentieth Century” takes place in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.
The exposition attempts to trace the figurative and semantic metamorphosis of the image of the angel from modernity, symbolism and avant-garde to…

Exhibition titled "Circle of Artists" has opened at the Museum named after I. N. Kramskoy as part of the Platonov Festival. 

Every year in June, the International Platonov Arts Festival takes place in Voronezh. Its program consists of sections "Theater", "Music", "Exhibitions" and "Literature", and…

New Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, is about to launch an exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the recognized master of landscape and still life — Fedor Zakharov.
Zakharov was born in September 1919 in the village of Aleksandrovskoye in the…

The exhibition titled "Fairytale Rus" recently opened in the Samuel Corps of the Rostov Kremlin Museum-Reserve.
The exhibition features 60 items from the collection of the All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art. Among them you can see various boxes, caskets, cases and panels…

Two days ago, on June 18, Promsvyazbank announced that the bailiffs could not locate the confiscated works of art.
Promsvyazbank reports that the bailiffs entered the vault of the Institute of Russian Realistic Art (IRRI) in search of said works but could not find the…

The International Conference dedicated to the memory of writer and art historian Nikolai Khardzhiev is held on June 21–22 in Moscow, at the exhibition hall of the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art.
The third volume of the Khardzhiev Archive, published by RGALI and…

Piskator's Bible was quite widespread in Russia — it served as a subject of admiration in the royal, boyar and merchant circles, and was also an important source of iconography for Russian miniaturists, icon  painters and masters of monumental painting.
In recent years, the Tretyakov…

Russian Museum is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the 130th anniversary since the birth of Russian poetess Anna Akhmatova.
The exhibition features ten pictorial, graphic and sculptural portraits of Anna Akhmatova from the collection of the Russian Museum, created by her contemporaries. 
Among them are…

The M.T. Abraham Foundation presented Hermitage with three sculptures by Edgar Degas and two paintings by Vladimir Sterligov.
The Director of Hermitage, Mikhail Piotrovsky, expressed his sincere gratitude to the Abraham Foundation and its President, Mr. Amir Kabiri, for a donation that is a significant…

The criminal case against Denis Chuprikov, who stole the painting “Ai-Petri. Crimea” by Arkhip Kuindzhi from the Tretyakov Gallery in January this year has been transferred to Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow.
The accused plead guilty and wrote a frank confession. The man is currently…

Tomorrow, a new exhibition dedicated to the first avant-garde association in Russia opens at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg.
The St. Petersburg based Society of Artists "Union of the Youth" was the first officially registered association of Russian avant-garde artists. It was founded on…

The National Center for Contemporary Art will be transferred to the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin before the end of the year. Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky said that the idea behind the ​​unification arose at the beginning of the year.…

A brand new exhibition, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest masters of Russian art from the first half of the twentieth century, will open at Mikhailovsky Palace of the Russian Museum in August.  
Konstantin Somov was born in…

An exposition of works by one of the most unique Russian landscape painters of the 19th — 20th centuries, Ivan Pokhitonov (1850–1923), is being prepared at the main building of the Tretyakov Gallery on Lavrunsky Lane. 
The exhibition is dedicated to the 170th anniversary of…

Art Museum named after F.A. Kovalenko in Krasnodar is preparing an exhibition of a collection of paintings, graphics and sculpture, donated to the museum by Ivan Porto in 2010. 
The exhibition was timed with the anniversary of Ivan Borisovich Porto (1939 - 2009) — art…

An exhibition of works by Vasily Andreevich Tropinin  (1780-1857) is taking place at the Nizhny Novgorod Art Museum (NNAM).
The exhibition was the first joint project of the NNAM and the Museum of Tropinin and Moscow artists of his time. The exposition is dedicated to…

Brand new exhibition titled “Triumph & Tragedy: Catherine, the Romanovs & Fabergé” at the David Roche Foundation in Adelaide will showcase 150 pieces of some of Russia's most luxurious pieces of decorative art from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Many of the exhibits have never…

New exhibition celebrating the hidden craft of conservation features restored masterpieces of the Moscow Kremlin Museums including State regalia, Russian icons  and decorative pistols. 
Moscow Kremlin Museums hosted a similar exhibition in 2013 titled “The Art of Restoration”. It was a rare opportunity for visitors…

The exhibition will feature the most important works in the collection of the Museum.
Residents of the city and its guests will have the opportunity to get acquainted with some of the best Art from the Kursk State Art Gallery and the curators would like…

The exhibition will present a variety of techniques and styles of Russian sculptors from the second half of the 20th — 21st century working with various polymeric materials. 
Artists at the beginning of the twentieth century completely transformed our understanding of what is considered a…

Two exhibitions on the subject of women in Russian Art are currently welcoming visitors at the Malaga branch of the Russian Museum in Spain. 
The first, titled "Female Russian artists. At the crossroads of tradition and avant-garde” from the collection of the Russian Museum represents the…

The leaders of both establishments have agreed that the US-Russian loans freeze should end.
The leaders of the two Museums met at the art diplomacy conference, organised in conjunction with the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), which was held on 13 February at the…

A fraudulent version of the official website of the State Hermitage Museum  has appeared on the Internet, through which tickets to the museum expositions are sold at inflated prices. 
“The State Hermitage informs that its only official website is www.hermitagemuseum.org. We ask you to be…

A large collection of Art, including the building of the Central House of Artists, which was owned by the International Confederation of Artists' Unions (MKSK), has become the property of the state.
The Ministry of Culture is currently engaged in the redistribution of this collection…

On June 12, an exhibition of peasant painted chests opened at the All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art. 
The exposition features about 30 chests from the middle of the 19th — beginning of the 20th centuries from rarely exhibited private collections and the Museum’s own collection.
The…

The trial of the man accused of theft  of the 20th century painting by Arhip Kuindzhi from the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow began on the 22 July. 
The accused, Denis Chuprikov, has pleaded partially guilty.
The prosecution stated that during the theft, the accused…

From August 1 to September 29, an exhibition entitled “The Great Makovsky” opens in the Samara Art Museum. 

The exhibition is dedicated to the creative dynasty of the Makovsky family. It is headed by Egor Makovsky (1802-1886) - a famous collector and a great lover…

The exhibition of the Khardzhiev archive will reopen despite the fire that broke out in the building of the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art on July 12 

The Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that the center of ignition was in one of the…

The Tretyakov Gallery is currently preparing an exhibition titled “Konstantin Istomin. Color in the window”.
Konstantin Nikolaevich Istomin (1887–1942) is one of the greatest Russian painters of the Soviet era. He was also one of the most consistent advocates of European culture in art education…

A special project is currently taking place at the Museum of Russian Impressionism  — an exhibition of two paintings titled “Brodsky and Kostandi. From the collection of the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts”. 

Within the framework of the project, the Museum is…

The heir to the last Petersburg “professorial collection” Vladimir Paleev is a unique example of a man who kept his father’s collection in its original form. The Art Newspaper Russia has published an interview with Paleev which you can read here in full in Russian,…

August 8 marks the opening day of the exhibition of works by Varvara Bubnova, which will take place in the House-Museum of Marina Tsvetaeva. 

The exhibition will presents work painted by the artist during her immigration in Japan during the period from the 1920s to the…

Tate is currently hosting the first in this country retrospective  of famous Russian painter Natalia Goncharova. RA Gallery spoke with the curator, Natalia Sidlina, in order to find out more about this ambitious project.***


Gardening, 1908 © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2019
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The exhibition features a variety of iconography of the image of Nicholas the Wonderworker, as well as the rare hagiographic themes of the saint.
June 29 marked the opening of the “Nicholas the Wonderworker” exhibition at Kirillo-Belozersky Historical-Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve.
The Kirillo-Belozersky Historical-Architectural and…

The exhibition at the New Tretyakov Gallery will show drawings and sketches of one of the architects of the Museum building. 
The exhibition was prepared on the occasion of the merger of the former Central House of Artists with the Tretyakov Gallery, and the upcoming…

An exhibition of Avant-garde art will open in September at the Louvre Abu Dhabi of Saadiyat Island. 

The exhibition fully titled “Rendezvous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co. (1900-1939)” will feature over 80 works of art by such famous modernist artists as Pablo Picasso,…

An exhibition fully titled "Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (1844-1927). Etudes. 175th anniversary of the artist’s birth” is dedicated to the anniversary of the painter.
The project was conceived with the aim of acquainting the audience with the work of the famous Russian artist of the second…

A two-month exhibition dedicated to Russian painting is taking place in a private museum in Shanghai.
The exhibition features more than 60 paintings by 29 various artists from Russia and China.
The initiator of the creation of the Shanghai Mylnikov Art Museum became a 64-year-old…

Tretyakov Gallery website is currently featuring a page designed to raise funds for the restoration of Anna Golubkina Museum.
The fundraising has been organized to collect funds for the restoration and adaptation to the modern use of the building and the creation of a new…

The Viktor Vasnetsov House-Museum is closed to visitors from August 1 to September 1 2019 due to scheduled repairs. 
The house-museum of the artist Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (1848–1926) was built according to author's sketches and drawings. Part of the furniture in the museum’s interiors was also…

An exhibition dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of Konstantin Somov,  one of the largest masters of Russian art in the first half of the 20th century, has opened at Russian Museum in St Petersburg. 
The project is the first large-scale exhibition at…

On August 27, State Museum of Fine Arts. named after A. Pushkin will host a lecture titled “Pavel and Sergey Tretyakov, founders of Tretyakov Gallery”. 

The lecture is dedicated to the history of the collection of the famous Moscow merchants, the Tretyakov brothers, which became…

In the fall of 2019, the Tretyakov Gallery will offer visitors several major projects, one of which will be an exhibition titled “Avant-garde. List No. I. 100th anniversary of the Museum of pictorial culture. "
In Soviet Russia, a unique project was launched with the…

125 masterpieces from Bakhrushin Museum will be presented to the public until December 28, 2019.
On August 6, the museum launched a project titled “125 Masterpieces of the Museum named after A.A. Bakhrushin” as part of the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the establishment. …

The In Artibus Foundation exhibition in Novosibirsk combines French and Russian painting of the 19th – 20th centuries. 

The project was conceived with the aim of introducing, to the general public, international interconnections in art at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The exhibition…