Olena Oliinyk

Ukraine has taken another step toward the European cultural space when the Kyiv-based Ye bookstore joined the BookCrossing project by launching a new shelf filled with books in foreign languages. BookCrossing boasts over 500,000 participants in more than 150 countries. Its main idea is “the...

An unusual exhibit has been hosted by the Ukrainian Culture Foundation: several dozen expensive items of needlework by Tetiana Protcheva, each presenting an exciting combination of modern cultural trends and very old traditions. A map of Ukraine adorned with Swarowski stones, with the largest pink...

The 24th Ukrainian Fashion Week will be held on March 12 to 17. On the eve of the event, the organizing committee chairperson Iryna Danylevska says that this springtime show will add optimism to Ukrainian society:“Fashion is apolitical but not asocial. I would like to hope that the surrounding...

It took the compilers 20 years to collect the material for their precious book of early-20th-century postcards. Now, after 18 months of preparing the book for publication and a number of presentations on the territory of Western Ukraine, they launched it in Kyiv. The book has the touching title “...

The landscape paintings, portraits, and graphics by a group of artists known as “the Ukrainian Parisians” — Oleksa Hryshchenko, Borys Pastukhov, Vasyl Khmeliuk, and Mykola Vaker — have brought excitement to the Ukrainian capital. An exhibit of these paintings was held in fall 2006 at the Lviv Art...