Culture

[Plot:] Pryputni is the name of a village in Chernihiv oblast. On the occasion of the Savior of the Apple Feast Day [a.k.a. Savior on the Hill], a corpulent and business-minded old lady known as Baba...

Serhii KOVYKA-ALIEV (b. October 29, 1956, vil. Babaikivka, Dnipropetrovsk oblast) is a graphic artist, painter, and sculptor. In 1978-80, he worked as a [Soviet propaganda billboard] designer...

The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts is hosting an exhibition of paintings by contemporary Chinese artist Chang Peng, called “Bowing Down to the Greatness of Creations....

At home in France, Julien Berjeaut is primarily known under the pseudonym “Jul,” which he uses to sign his bandes dessinees (illustrated stories). Recently, Ukrainians learned more about...

The exposition, titled “The Genius and the Sea: Traditions, Searches, Discoveries,” marks the 200th anniversary of Ivan Aivazovsky’s birth and the 95th anniversary of the Kyiv...

“Here in 1938-67 lived and worked traditional artist Olena Kulchytska,” reads a memorial plaque at the entrance to an inconspicuous home. This building has for nearly half a century...

The prominent guests include the Nobel laureate Herta Muller (Romania-Germany), Adam Zagajewski (Poland) who has been repeatedly nominated for the award, Peter Pomerantsev (UK), Lyudmila Ulitskaya (...

The premiere of the historical action film Chervony, based on the novel of the same name by Andrii Kokotiukha, became one of the main events of this fall in our cinemas. The film’s director...

This is the fourth festival of the Italian musical baroque which our music lovers are looking forward to because the army of admirers of high art has considerably expanded over three years it has...

The art event scheduled for September 16 as part of the Forum of Publishers is aimed at preserving and popularizing the artistic heritage of Johann Georg Pinzel (Pinsel), a mid-18th-century late...

Vlad TROITSKYI, founder and unchallenged director of the festival, tells The Day about the most interesting of the events on the festival agenda, the situation around the new building of the Theater...

The stage director has put on this adventure comedy (usually known as Monsieur Amilcar) by Yves Jamiaque at the Kyiv Drama and Comedy Theater on the Dnieper’s Left Bank. This premiere is now on...

By tradition, this forum is held in late September which is “golden” in Lviv. Hence is the name the festival was given in 1992. But it was in fact founded much earlier, in 1989, with Lviv...

Nadia Parfan (born in Ivano-Frankivsk in 1986) is a cultural scholar, civic activist, curator of independent cultural projects, and co-founder of the International Festival of Film and Urbanism...

The Days of Zhytomyr will be held on September 7-10. This time audiences will be able to see a rich program at different locations, as Zhytomyr will be celebrating the 1,133rd anniversary of its...