Digital players focus on transparent, algorithmically driven analytics to appeal to a younger base for whom the medium is cool. But that data still needs informed interpretation

Experimentation, freedom and in-house content are key to how the gallery engages with its five million followers on social media

Sophisticated technology is helping institutions count people but it also has the capability of tracking demographic data, ensuring people are well behaved and even detecting if visitors are enjoying themselves

As a new report is released, the US-based Artistic Freedom Initiative demands refugee status for artists and cultural workers under threat from Taliban rule

The event, called I Am U Are, is demonstrating that Ukraine’s creative industries are alive and kicking despite Russia’s invasion

Vadym Huzhva handed a five-year sentence for 2018 theft and for stealing four other paintings in France, including a Renoir

The man known as The Merchant of Death was exchanged for the American athlete, who was arrested for possessing cannabis oil at a Moscow airport in February

Amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, exhibitors at the third edition of Georgia's premier commercial art event hoped to dispel the idea that the nation "exists on the periphery of Russia”

Against the constraints imposed by Covid-19 and Turkey’s repressive social climate, the influential biennial obliquely takes up thorny topics and engages with the city’s alternative spaces

The dissident painter suffered heart failure while being treated for Covid-19 in Germany

The work was temporarily rehung for press, but the public will have to wait until a bulletproof "protective capsule" can be installed

Viktor Bout was handed a 25-year sentence in the US in 2010 for conspiring to sell weapons to FARC, Colombia's largest rebel group

Former mall in Norilsk will provide 8,500 sq. m of space for art

International Council of Museums committees in Ukraine and Poland appeal for help to secure Olena Pekh's release

Artsakhi ministers have asked Russia to intervene in their bid to recoup paintings, sculptures, and precious stones after relinquishing culturally significant city of Shusha

Evicted artists say authorities are leaving them out in the cold by failing to provide alternative workshops

The Association of Galleries aims to simplify the country's customs procedures and secure government funding

London’s longest-running art fair survives virus by going fully online and diversifying

Arseniy Neskhodimov’s photographs raise awareness of mental health in the age of coronavirus

Police say the body-positive images, accompanied by captions like ‘Real women have body fat and it’s normal,’ violate pornography laws

Event’s president Julia Muzikantskaya accused of allegedly threatening artists and withholding payments

Museum seeks fourth director in as many years amid claims its renowned avant-garde collection is being “mistreated”

Moscow's Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is offering curatorial expertise as part of growing network of partnerships with post-Soviet countries

Russia’s entry for 2019 show influenced by Gospel of Luke and includes installation by famous film director Alexander Sokurov

19th-century oil painting, stolen during the Second World War, was found in the US

Digital initiative will invite users to explore and sponsor more than 190,000 works in the collection

Students’ parents complain and psychologists sent to school after art contest for International Day of Tolerance draws fire from authorities

A group of women send partition crashing to the ground, as one punter only just escapes being crushed

No buyer's premium and bidding paddles on your phone, but founder still believes holding physical auctions is key

The seller says that the painting, titled A Young Girl in Furs, was authenticated by the Stockholm art valuation firm Atelje Catellani