A year into the war, institutions face pressure to note the Ukrainian roots of artworks and artists long described as Russian. It’s not always simple to write a wall label.
President Vladimir Putin s International Cultural Cooperation special envoy Mikhail Shvydkoy accused Western institutions of "abolishing Russian culture."
Long after the Soviet Union collapsed, many people in the West still thought of Ukraine as part of the Russian world which is exactly what Moscow wants to make it. But Russia’s war on Ukraine is having the opposite effect, and perceptions abroad are changing as Ukrainians resist the invasion.