The Russian artist Sasha Skochilenko, who was recently freed in a prison swap, on life under President Putin—and on more than two years spent in prison for an art intervention opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ow.ly/2Laj50Tf72q

Frieze Seoul 2024 | Focus Asia is the section of the fair presenting exciting new talents, with ten solo presentations from Asia-based galleries that have opened since 2012. One of the section’s curators, Joselina Cruz, gave us a tour Frieze ow.ly/KOyR50TfvJz

The Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum Art, operated by the chemical manufacturer DIC and home to one of world's only four Rothko rooms, may have to downsize or close for good ow.ly/E92a50Tezni

Frieze Seoul 2024 | The fashion entrepreneur Heejae Kang discusses starting out collecting, plus regrets, tips and a work at MoMa she’d love to own Frieze ow.ly/KEak50Tfwqp

The V&A in London has announced a string of blockbuster exhibitions for next year, including the first ever UK show to look at the legacy of Marie Antoinette, the notorious Queen of France who died at the guillotine in 1793, aged 37 ow.ly/kMxe50TfzFH

The UK’s accomplishments in the arts are something its public prides above all else, according to a new study, while fondness for British history has dropped dramatically ow.ly/WZX050TfAxW

Moderated expectations, due to an economic slowdown in South Korea, were met accordingly by moderate sales at yesterday's VIP preview of the third edition of Frieze Seoul Frieze ow.ly/kCcI50TgsH5

Activists from PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) held a “die-in’ in the The Courtauld Gallery’s LVMH Great Room on Tuesday. The group said it was protesting “fashion house LVMH’s continued use of wild animals’ skin in its collections” ow.ly/lYXS50TgtbV

Conservators have begun assessing the damage to the Arch of Constantine in Rome after the fourth-century monument was struck by lightning on 3 September during a storm. The downpour also reportedly flooded the lower tunnels of the Colosseum ow.ly/222250Thlya

Veronika Kozhushko, an 18-year-old artist, was among seven people killed on 30 August by a Russian guided bomb attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city and a cultural centre ow.ly/tMlY50Thm5i

Karin Hindsbo, director of London's Tate Modern for the past year, wants it to be a ground-breaking institution. She discusses plans to raise annual visitor numbers to six million and for a free festival to mark next year’s 25th birthday ow.ly/7PUk50ThntF

The Week in Art podcast is back! We discuss the current art market slump. Plus, an interview with Sasha Skochilenko, the artist freed in the US-Russia prisoner swap, and a close look at “The Angel of Hearth and Home” (1937) by Max Ernst Listen now: plinkhq.com/i/1280469178?t…

A sleek East Hampton abode on New York’s Long Island served as a backdrop for a show and sale of contemporary Ukrainian art to raise funds for Ukraine’s children over the recent Labor Day weekend ow.ly/2ZCF50Tht1J

The crisis at the heart of the Slovak cultural sector deepened yesterday as representatives from different fields announced they had united to declare “the beginning of a strike emergency called the Cultural Strike” ow.ly/IYqB50ThuET

Representatives for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston announced on 4 September that they have reached an agreement with Turkish authorities to return a looted gold and carnelian necklace to its rightful home ow.ly/V2o050ThvZT

Two years after the US Supreme Court overturned the federal right to abortion, and as Republican leaders in many states impose restrictions on reproductive and gender-affirming care, a travelling show is making the case that these are fundamental rights ow.ly/u9Cx50ThNlM

Despite a sense of unease about the state of the ark market over the past year, dealers, advisors and collectors alike were optimistic about sales during Thursday’s VIP preview of @TheArmoryShow in New York ow.ly/i7cz50ThThr

According to its founder, Independent 20th Century was engineered to be an antidote for precisely the hangover the art market has been enduring for close to two years ow.ly/pKwp50ThWzr

A Van Gogh painting being auctioned at Christie's Hong Kong on 26 September will become the most expensive work from the artist’s Paris period, and one of the most important works of Western art to ever go under the hammer in Asia ow.ly/FsSw50Ththg

Paris’s Musée Jacquemart-André—home to a ceiling by Giambattista Tiepolo, as well as priceless 18th-century tapestries from Brussels depicting the story of Achilles—has reopened following a spectacular renovation Musée Jacquemart-André ow.ly/4Ix550ThvrB