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Malevich’s Kyiv Period Is Newly Fashionable
This October saw a remarkable conference take place in Kyiv on the legacy of the great artist whose Ukrainian ties are only now garnering...
Remembering The Bloodiest Days of Ukraine’s Revolution
Four years ago today, Ukrainian special forces fired on protesters gathered on Kyiv’s Maidan nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), wounding, maiming, and killing demonstrators against President...
Haunted By The Dybbuk In New York City
An-sky (pseudonym for Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport), was a legendary Jewish playwright who undertook an ethnographic expedition in Ukraine from 1912-1914 to record the culture of...
Making Modernism: Tracking The Burliuk Family In Odessa
The Burliuk brothers are known as exemplars of high modernism, but the story of the rest of the talented family is less known. This...
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...
46th Kyiv International Film Festival Molodist Officially Opened
The official opening ceremony of the 46th Kyiv International Film Festival Molodist took place at the Ivan Franko Theater this past Saturday, attended by...
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...
Odessans bring summer as close as possible
Odessa is a summer city, so it comes as no surprise that Odessites tend to struggle through the winter months. Winter 2015-16 was particularly...
OIFF Day One Update: Feast of Flattery and a Runaway from Loneliness
The “Rodina” Cinema theater and the Theater of Operetta both have been packed during movie presentations for the first day of OIFF. On this very...
Australia’s Aboriginal Art: A Human Rights Puzzle
The ongoing revival of aboriginal art in Australia is emblematic of the nation’s complex history, and the often fraught relationship between Australia’s settlers and...
