№49, (2012)
04.09.2012 - 00:00
Lady exhibit in ABC Art Gallery
The exhibit is a cross-section of the male collective view of the woman and femininity as such. It includes erotic plots in Viktor Zaretsky’s works (dating back to the 1980s, an exotic thing...
04.09.2012 - 00:00
The art of exchange
The first week-long solo exhibition by Monika Zawadzki “A Man with Two Seesaws” was presented at the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv as a part of the Transfer program. Transfer is an exchange...
04.09.2012 - 00:00
Talks on scaffolds
To comprehend the outcome of the First Kyiv Contemporary Art biennial “Arsenale” and the situation in domestic art overall, THE DAY held a roundtable discussion, specially dedicated to...
04.09.2012 - 00:00
Where to find million hryvnias?
The reason for this is simple – lack of funding. THE DAY found out about it more from Yaroslav FEDORYSHYN, founder and director of the international theater festival, art director of Lviv...
04.09.2012 - 00:00
Classics rock’n’roll style
Two concert halls will become the festival’s sites, Lavra Gallery and the National Philharmonic of Ukraine. The festival will be opened by a famous violinist Nigel Kennedy. This British...
04.09.2012 - 00:00
How designers turn “minus” into “plus”
On Independence Day the 57th flower exhibition was opened on Spivoche Pole (Singing Field). Its theme is “Melody of Ukrainian Fairy Tales.” The project was implemented by designers from...
04.09.2012 - 00:00
This day in history
1918: Soviet Russia’s Sovnarkom (Russ. acronym for the Soviet/Council of People’s Commissars) adopts the Decree “On the Liquidation of Private Railroad Companies.” 1928: Soviet Ukraine’s Radnarkom (...
04.09.2012 - 00:00
Romney vs. Obama: official opponents
As planned, late Tuesday night the GOP confirmed Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts governor, as the party’s presidential nominee. At the party convention in Tampa, Florida, 2,061 delegates...
04.09.2012 - 00:00
Olvia and bards
Rousing Greek dances, performed by ethnic Greek bands from Mariupol and Odesa, alternated with bard performances. This popular genre was shaped in the USSR and was an indispensable element of...
04.09.2012 - 00:00
Few declarations – more concrete actions
The events organized by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) offer an opportunity for the participants (this year’s events have drawn together nearly 1,000...
04.09.2012 - 00:00
A staunch court
No miracle has happened. Tymoshenko will stay in prison. “The sentence should be left unchanged,” the judge of the Higher Specialized Court of Ukraine for Civil and Criminal Cases Oleksandr Yelfimov...
04.09.2012 - 00:00
Which of the foreign political or public figures should the Ukrainians honor?
Lithuania has posthumously awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Cross of Vytis to Russia’s first president Boris Yeltsin. The head of the Lithuanian state, Dalia Grybauskaite, handed...
04.09.2012 - 00:00
Not a day without a gold medal
The 14th Summer Paralympic Games are taking place in London from August 29 through September 9. Ukraine is represented by 155 athletes in 12 sports (the total number of the competition participants...
04.09.2012 - 00:00
The government may not revise the 2012 budget
It is perhaps no coincidence that the International Monetary Fund’s technical mission has arrived at a time when the government is drafting the 2013 budget. There is a good reason to presume that the...
04.09.2012 - 00:00
Suzu and 60 children under a mango tree
Suzu is five years old. Her face is very-very sad and looks like the one of an old woman. She does not have a father and her mom goes to work very early, she works at a market. The girl stays with...