Interviews and articles
Art Collector Victor Pinchuk joins The Giving Pledge
The Ukrainian businessman and art collector Victor Pinchuk has added his name to the list of billionaires who have pledged to give away half their wealth in their lifetimes or at their deaths
Billionaire's generosity: what confirms Pinchuk's oath to give half of his fortune for philanthropy (in Russian)
This article is available only in Ukrainian and Russian
Автор: Леся Войтицкая
Pinchuk: giving away fortune can help to build a fair Ukraine
How hard is it for a multi-billionaire to donate half of his fortune to charity? Most of us will never know
Author: Roman Olearchyk
ARTnews publishes its list of the world's 200 top art collectors in its July edition
The ARTnews 200 list – which includes notable names in fashion, entertainment, finance, technology, media, and real estate – is compiled byARTnews correspondents in 22 countries who interviewed collectors, dealers, auctioneers, museum directors, curators and consultants. It appears in the magazine’s Summer issue, on newsstands July 10
Art Becomes an Agent of Disruption in Ukraine
Never on the map of the contemporary art world, Ukraine is experiencing an unusually high level of activity in this realm with a new solo exhibition by British sculptor Anish Kapoor, the first international Bienalle of Contemporary Arts in Kiev and the emergence of the Future Generation Art Prize
A “Landmark” Museum for Ukraine
In a rare interview, Victor Pinchuk tells us about his plans to build a new contemporary art space in Kiev
Source of energy
Victor Pinchuk grew up in Soviet-era Ukraine, first in Kiev and then in the eastern town of Dnipropetrovsk, where queues for food and goods were a dreary facet of everyday life
Modern Medicis flash their cash in Venice as the world of art goes into a new orbit
Sir Elton John swept from his speedboat on the Grand Canal into a magnificent palazzo full of new international art and beamed like a proud parent at a school prizegiving. He greeted his host, a Ukrainian billionaire, bought one of the hulking concrete sculptures in the foyer and ascended the stairs to meet a young Brazilian artist who recently won a new art prize that Sir Elton helps to run.