Culture
15.03.2022 - 12:22
A Concert for Ukraine
On Monday, March 14, at 6PM ET, the Metropolitan Opera will present a benefit performance to support Ukrainian citizens under attack, with all ticket sales and donations going to support relief...
26.09.2018 - 17:20
The Ukrainian-Canadian Brueghel
William Kurelek’s first and last name would have been Vasyl Kurylyk in Ukraine, the land of his forefathers, but he was born in Canada, where he was destined to become a distinguished Ukrainian...
19.09.2018 - 16:47
Den’s 20th International Photo Contest
Some 1,800 photos have been received from 120 contestants. The Editors, aware of the photographers’ scrupulous approach and tight schedule (no weekends without the camera), have...
19.09.2018 - 16:13
The art of revolution
Fever on the streets and a pompous cold Empire style, new privileges for the third estate and the emergence of an empire which could rival the Roman one in grandeur, although it existed for a much...
05.09.2018 - 18:29
“You can say so many things without being rude”
This looks like an on-screen story of sorts.The young Kyivite Daria Gaikalova receives a bachelor’s degree in philosophy at Kyiv Mohyla Academy and then moves to Mumbai, the film capital of...
05.09.2018 - 18:13
How to beat the blues?
A Ukrainian-made film was awarded a prize at the 75th Venice International Festival, one of the world’s largest cine forums.“It is a very important award which clearly demonstrates...
29.08.2018 - 19:01
Romani people here and in Europe
“This project is meant to show a lifestyle ordinary people have no access to,” says photographer Oleksii ZINCHENKO, describing his series of pictures dedicated to the Romani. He took the...
23.08.2018 - 11:00
“Ever since my childhood, I have been capable of holding a tour of the exposition with my eyes closed...”
The appointment of a new director of the Odesa Art Museum was one of the biggest artistic scandals this year. As is well known, a competitive selection was held for the position, and the famous Odesa...
22.08.2018 - 17:39
Book Space festival
DNIPRO – Book Space is the name of a new international book festival that will take place here, September 28-30.Says Viktoria NARIZHNA, art director of the festival: “We titled...
16.08.2018 - 09:41
The battle of our dreams
What do the giant Kalevipoeg from the eponymous Estonian epic and the hero of Oles Honchar’s novel Perekop about the war of 1917-20 Danko Yaresko have in common? Both works were illustrated by...
15.08.2018 - 16:46
#Film or no film?
According to the announcement, the film about Vasyl Stus, which won the Ukrainian State Film Agency’s (Derzhkino’s) 10th competitive selection, deals with bright pages in the life and a...
09.08.2018 - 12:06
Princely Zvenyhorod to be revived
Ukraine’s first historical-cultural park “Ancient Zvenyhorod” will be launched in autumn not far from Lviv, based on a nationwide archeological site. It will cover an area of...
25.06.2018 - 17:11
Ukraine’s first ATO museum
I’d long known about Ukraine’s first Anti-Terrorist Operation Museum in Dnipro before visiting it this year. It’s official title reads: “Museum [dedicated to] the Civil Feat...
20.06.2018 - 15:46
World after Kira: by 18 films better
We hope that this text by Dmytro Desiateryk will launch a thorough discussion about what exactly can be considered a product of Ukrainian culture. For example, is the “Ukrainianness” of a...
18.06.2018 - 17:43
The one remembered for five centuries on end!
This thematic concert can be called a high-society rout, where different languages, especially Turkish and Ukrainian, were spoken. The Philharmonic gathered the diplomatic, political, and artistic...