when it was part of the Russian Empire.” On Semenik’s Twitter account, Ukrainian Art History, which has over 17,000 followers, she wrote that “All [Repin’s] famous landscapes were about ...

So the Met re-reclassified him: Aivazovsky is now described as “Armenian, born Russian Empire [now Ukraine].” Activists and art historians have been pressuring museums to rethink how they ...

The dancers, however, were probably from Ukraine—which was part of the Russian Empire at the time. Now, facing pressure from the art world, the Met has officially renamed the piece Dancers in ...

The sea change in Russian modern art at the turn of the 20th century affected ... instruments for probing the issues of terrorism and empire, consumerism and poverty. The duo of Alexander ...

says the last time so much folk art from the former Russian Empire was shown in the United Kingdom was at the International Exhibition in Glasgow in 1901. That, Chenciner notes, was when Western ...

The Society for Itinerant Art Exhibitions was registered in 1870 ... but also in other cities within the Russian Empire. Ilya Repin. Barge Haulers on the Volga. 1870-1873 State Russian Museum ...

The fifth-century jewelry is gone. Shelves that used to house artifacts from the Cossacks, who lived in the area before it was conquered by the Russian Empire, are now empty. Russians packed it ...