Mykola Skyba

In terms of social development, Donetsk is still perceived by Ukrainian intellectuals as unchartered territory, as a Wild Field, undeveloped and dangerous for culture. Yurii Andrukhovych even proposed to separate Ukraine’s south-eastern oblasts. The main sources of this infernal-proletarian impact...

Myth sometimes disguises the true essence of things, and to understand the latter this essence one must have certain experience of perceiving things without undue respect for myths or canons. This above all applies to Taras Shevchenko’s heritage, especially to his visual art, which modern...

Life is always more interesting than anything written about it. We are thrilled to “read” the world using some imperceptible signs in order to come closer to understanding it. We are attracted by life experiences of noted personalities capable of understanding it. Vadym Skurativsky is one such...

A poetic text shows a high degree of self-sufficiency, so squeezing out of the author something he hasn’t written wouldn’t seem proper. However, a living culture means not only creating texts, but also playing with the senses, expanding the scale of values, saturating the surrounding semantic field...

For Mykhailo Boichuk and his followers the key subject matter is an apple tree, embodying the family tree and the tree of knowledge about good and evil. Offering the subject to his pupils, the artist strove to verify their human and creative maturity. Apple orchard, Boichukism, asserting the...

Trying to figure out the plot and the original sources of the numerous legends about underground passages, we must not only dig into the bulk of rock, where we will come across the forgotten vestiges of past generations in limestone or granite, but also go through the thick of historical memory...