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April 28, Odessa. “Anatomy” Exhibition
Odessa Art Museum's new exhibition program opens April 28 by the exhibition "Anatomy" by the famous contemporary Ukrainian artist Vladimir Ralko. For the first...
Theater On Podil: A Controversial Facet Of The Ukrainian Architectural Revival
The newly built Podil Theater building has proven to be quite controversial with it’s modernist exterior making many observers quite unhappy. If nothing else,...
An American Innocent Abroad Meets A New York Dandy In Odessa
Along with its hard-nosed skepticism, Odessa is renowned for an acerbic sense of humor, expressed most characteristically in iconic set-piece anecdotes. While most of...
Religion For The People
The writer Yulia Verba has recentlly published a very funny book of short stories “Spawn of the Moldavanka” which is set in the dilapidated...
Leonid Utesov: Was He Really Playing Jazz?
Leonid Utesov is Considered by Many to be Greatest Singer of his Generation, the ‘Soviet Sinatra’’. While he Considered Himself to be a Proponent...
An Excerpt from "By The Black Sea" by Mikhail Kapchinsky
This is an excerpt from the 1952 memoirs of the Odessa Film Studio’s legendary first director Mikhail Kapchinsky. The excerpt provides a remarkable historical...
Odessa’s “Invogue” Gallery Opens With An Exhibition Of Stepan Ryabchenko’s Digital Paintings
The DELPHINIUM flower is the star of the “Honey Plants” exhibition poster — a very common Ukrainian field flower with a powerful honey fragrance...
From Conflict To Cooperation: Ukrainian-Jewish Relations’ Bumpy Path
For much of the history of Ukraine, it was difficult to speak of anything akin to Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Jewish assimilation into the broader Ukrainian...
Koktebel Jazz Festival Diary: Days 3 + 4.
Day 3
My third day at the Koktebel Jazz Festival began with high hopes andn even greater expectations.
The day began with a press tour to...
A Short Biography Of Ukraine’s Hottest Musical Icon
Over the last year, ONUKA has shot to critical and popular success both at home and in Europe. But front-woman Nata Zhyzhchenko’s greatest accomplishment may...
