Empty galleries and fleeing artists: Russia's cultural uncoupling from the west
GES-2 was meant to be Moscow's answer to Tate Modern, but the invasion of Ukraine has cast a pall over the project Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates On a recent Saturday in April, Muscovites strolled around GES-2, a vast new arts centre built in a disused power station steps away from the Kremlin. But guests visiting the 54,400-sq-metre centre, designed by the pioneering Italian architect Renzo Piano, were faced wit…