Anna Sliesarieva

In September Ukrainian designers took part in two Italian fashion events at a time: one of the world’s leading fashion weeks, Milano Moda Donna, and the international fashion exhibit, White, which is well known mostly among the professionals. The project they were presenting is titled...

The 1920s-1930s became a period, when the creative work of Ukrainian artists, especially those who lived in Paris, was in blossoming. More private and group exhibits of Ukrainian artists were launched in the interwar period. Oleksii Hryshchenko and Mykola Hlushchenko were the first to open their...

The exhibition includes works by 24 contemporary artists from various countries, including Nazar Bilyk, Marcia Smilack, Anna Shabunina, Igor Konovalov, Seth Chwast, Deborah Jill, Michael Madore, and Casey Metcalf.The Art Association Doroshenko...

A talented person can always be distinguished by his/her interest for life and inexhaustible reserve of inner energy. Natalia KOMPANTSEVA, a master of photography and camerawoman, is exactly that kind of person. One can only envy her biography and abrupt turns of life. Her films are winners of...

Volodymyr Vynnychenko died a little over 60 years ago. Analyzing his artistic and epistolary oeuvre, reading his diaries, we are able to see Vynnychenko from an absolutely different angle. During his life he painted over 100 paintings. Last year marked the third stage of transferring the canvases...

For anybody committed to European values, violence against women is a barbaric act. Incidentally, in Ukraine, a country known for its Amazons and militant Cossack wives, this “tradition” should be seen as alien, too. Obviously, it was brought here by some other culture, some other...

The Ukrainian information space does little to cover topics pertaining to national history. Thus, almost any short news report becomes an event, to say nothing about a real documentary film. That explains why the Kyiv Cinema House, where the documentary by Roman Koval and Oleksandr Dombrovsky...

On July 22, Chechelnyk, a town in Vinnytsia oblast, hosted the closing ceremony of The Day’s photo exhibit, which was opened on July 10. As previously reported, its journalists, among them Editor in Chief Larysa Ivshyna and the guest of honor, Yevhen Marchuk, were accorded welcome in Chechelnyk....

Professional journalism should deal with the life of the entire country, not only its leadership, and monitor the remotest corners and smallest villages, not only the capital. Ukraine’s “historical puzzle” is such that its real heroes have been waiting for recognition somewhere in...

Ethnic festivals are very popular all over the world — they always attract a huge number of music lovers. Ukraine is no exception. But in our country they also have a political subtext. For, unfortunately, there are very few places where Ukrainians can feel their national identity. Kyiv’s...