An exhibit backed by a close associate of the Kremlin claims, erroneously, to show paintings newly attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. 

Artist Anna Dial uses updated samizdat methods to publish her "zines" and avoid censorship. 

The trial of Zhenya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk has been postponed yet again. 

Why a Siberian Village is Choosing Petroglyphs Over Petroleum

Russian artists painting a Navalny mural in Buenos Aires were interrupted by police after multiple complaints.

Russian artists brought unauthorized performance art to Paris's biggest contemporary art museum. 

"Faces of the Russian Resistance" is a traveling art project that humanizes dissent in Russia.

A century after it first opened, the Jewish Museum in Moscow recreated an exhibit of Jewish avant-garde artists from Chagall to Shterenberg. 

A playwright and a theater director were arrested for a play criticizing ISIS. After months in jail, they spoke from their defendants' glass box.

One website showcases the creativity anti-war protesters are using to express dissent while avoiding arrest.  

An artist was arrested while fleeing to Kazakhstan for the use of prison tattoos in his artwork.

Russian poets were sentenced to prison for anti-war poems.