Konstantin Akinsha

A judge decided it was a fake, but some scholars say that a Russian painting sold at Christie's is genuine

Russians debate the future of old monuments to the leader and their meaning for the present.

Experts say that many of the works attributed to Russian masters in a Venice exhibition are not what they're claimed to be.

With trials, harassment, and other forms of intimidation, Russian authorities are striking out against curators and artists—who are, in turn, organizing projects that are increasingly provocative and…

An exhibition in Vienna brings to light new evidence of Austria's reluctance to return art looted by the Nazis.

Femme nue couchée, one of several Courbets owned by the Hungarian Jewish collector Baron Ferenc Hatvany, disappeared after World War II from a Budapest bank vault. The painting resurfaced 50 years…

Forgers have been retouching hundreds of works by minor European artists, putting the signatures of major Russian artists on them and selling them for many times their worth.

Whether the first Moscow Biennale accomplished its aims—to legitimize contemporary art in Russia and to thrust contemporary Russian art onto the international stage—is debatable, but it was certainly…

Artists whose works deal with religious themes are reviled by the Russian Orthodox Church, while the vandals who destroy their works are hailed as martyrs.