The award-winning online arts magazine, Russian Art + Culture, is the world's largest and
most popular website dedicated to this subject. Launched in 2011, it has grown from a student
blog to become the world's largest online platform for Russian culture. Its reviews, interviews,
Russian jobs board and daily event listings attract approximately 50,000 visitors yearly and a
burgeoning following on social media. Russian Art + Culture also produces the biannual guide
to Russian Art Week in London; published the UK-Russia Year of Culture magazine in 2014
and an in-depth analysis of the Russian auction market in 2015. It builds on its extensive
network of businesses, Russian institutions and cultural foundations to regularly host panel
discussions, film screenings and academic conferences. Russian Art + Culture was named
one of the UK's Top Ten Arts & Culture Blogs at the 2016 UK Blog Awards.
Russian Art + Culture's core team includes Moscow-born owner Natasha Butterwick
who moved to London in 2001 and has over 20 years' art world experience in the fields of
research, dealing and collecting; editor Lauren Warner, who is a former lawyer with MAs
in Russian art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art and in Russian from Bryn Mawr
College; and Chief Operating Officer Katya Belyaeva, who holds an MA in economics
from the Finance University in Moscow and an MA in art history from Christie's Education,
London. Oxford-trained art historian Simon Hewitt serves as International Editor.
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