Culture
Home Culture
Oscars 2018
The Odessa Review's film critic on the 2018 Oscar race.
The 90th Academy Awards ceremony is about to take place at the Dolby Theatre in...
Kafka On Screen In Western Ukraine
Ukrainian Director Ivan Orlenko On His Debute Film “In Our Synagogue”.
“In Our Synagogue” is the first film by Ukrainian director Ivan Orlenko. The 30-minute,...
Odessa’s Neglected Poets: Semyon Keselman And Anatoly Fioletov
Boris Dralyuk is the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read our long interview with him here.
“Odessa is a nasty place,” wrote...
The Other Half Of The Equation
Prominent Odessa-born art theorist and media artist Peter Weibel thinks that the European art scene needs more contributions from the East.
Peter Weibel is an...
The Third Odessa International Literature Festival
The festival takes place for the third year in Odessa between September 28th and October 1, 2017.
Now In its third year, the Odessa Literary...
Twenty Years Of Bridge-Building
Since 1997, the intellectual journal Krytyka has projected an alternate future program for Ukraine: democracy, openness, internationalism. For twenty years, The journal has been...
Odessa’s Monuments as Displaced Persons
There weren’t many monuments in old Odessa – they could be counted on one’s fingers. Among them, the famous Duc de Richelieu or just...
Make Ukrainian Street Photography Mainstream
It’s hardly a surprise that cities are becoming a subject of academic study. Sociology, history, landscape urbanism and more general “urban studies” have all...
Architect Lev Weingort, Savior Of Poltava
Many Ukrainian cities are experiencing a construction boom today. New highrise buildings, residential complexes and entire microdistricts are changing their habitual appearance. And quite...
The Intellectual’s Guide To Ukrainian Reality Television
A few months ago at a party in Kyiv, I met a young woman who worked at the Ukrainian television channel STB. “Oh, that’s...
