Григорий Ревзин о теории заговора в отношениях государства и искусства

The artist tells Arseny Shteiner about exhibiting in a church and his desktop background

The particular way that Russian Orthodox believers appreciate art
Sergei Khodnev

Masters of contemporary art imagine ways to shock the faithful

Why Russian leftists haven’t got it right
Grigory Revzin

The case for why promising young artists should still go abroad
Andrei Erofeev

Elena Selina is the director of XL Gallery and a regular at Art Basel, Frieze, FIAC, and other major international art fairs. For the past several years, she has been collaborating with Russian museums on the Moscow Contemporary program, a series of exhibitions of contemporary artists represented by XL. She talked with Milena Orlova about what gets in the way of making good shows for good artists.

John Varoli on Ukrainian art growing up

On who is surrendering museum treasures to the church and why
Kira Dolinina

Father Vladimir Vigilyansky, director of press relations for Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, spoke to Maria Kravtsova and Pavel Korobov about the Patriarchate’s perspective on the debate with creative society.

Alexei Tarkhanov sits down with Vasily Bychkov, the man behind the Art Moscow fair, the Russian Antique Salon, the Arch Moscow architecture and design exhibition, and the Non/Fiction book fair

The press-shy Conceptualist legend gives a rare interview to Milena Orlova

The ringleader of the Nikolo-Lenivetsky workshop talks to Elena Fedotova about contemporary folk art

Sergei Khachaturov finds out what inspires the Nizhny Novgorod duet to make their video experiments

The Kandinsky Prize
Maria Kravtsova, Milena Orlova, and Elena Fedotova talk with the winners and jury members

Works by the 2008 Kandinsky Prize laureates and finalists on display in London
Milena Orlova

The fashion revolution of the 1980s
Misha Baster, Elena Fedotova