When you step inside the Savitsky Museum in Nukus, the capital of the Republic of Karakalpakstan — an autonomous region in northwestern Uzbekistan – the air itself seems to hum with history. Walls ...

The Uzbek government abruptly sacked the director of the Savitsky museum, Marinika Babanazarova, on Monday. Babanazarova was not given an official reason for her dismissal. She told the BBC that the ...

Most people have probably never heard of Nukus in western Uzbekistan. Yet, tucked away in this corner of the world resides the world’s second largest collection of Russian avant-garde art, Al Jazeera ...

Lost in the rough of present-day economic hardship and environmental degradation, Uzbekistan's state art museum in Nukus is a little-known treasure that houses a trove of the Soviet era's ...

Staff at the Savitsky Art Museum have supported the director A row has erupted after the director of a renowned museum of Russian avant-garde art in Uzbekistan was abruptly sacked. The local ...

Supporters say Marinika Babanazarova falsely accused of stealing from remote Uzbek museum housing world-class Russian avant-garde works One of the world’s greatest collections of Russian avant-garde ...

In this photo taken on Thursday, April 6, 2017, visitors attend the exhibition of renowned avant-garde collection from the Savitsky State Art Museum of Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan, opened in the ...