Olena Riabets

The catalogue presents the works of 102 artists and sculptors. According to exhibit organizers, it took four months to choose the exposition, its prime criterion being the ability to give a full picture of contemporary art in Ukraine. The project is being managed by the well-known art expert Olena...

It has been three decades since Petro Sypniak’s original works became known in Ukraine and abroad. This artist’s vernissages in France, the Czech Republic, Germany, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Poland, Belgium, and Italy enjoyed great success, too. Art critics note the painter’s professional mastery. His...

Lilia Zolotonosha, a young poetess from Mykolaiv, launched her fifth collection of poems I Long for you. The literary soiree took place in the building of the National Writers’ Union of Ukraine. “Women’s world is as capricious as life itself – this is what Lilia Zolotonosha is writing about,” said...

The name of the legendary Ukrainian composer Volodymyr Ivasiuk has turned into a bartering chip in the hands of politicians and a tool used by spin doctors, whereas honoring his memory has become another cynical campaign stunt. In early September, Mykola Romaniuk, head of the Chernivtsi...

A four-episode film, tentatively titled Scarlet Sails, is being made in Kyiv. It is a co-production of the Inter TV channel, Inter Media Productions studios, and the companies Ukrfilmtrust and Pronto Films. The movie authors claim it is going to be a new interpretation of Alexander Grin’s novel...

This year marks the noted choir’s 198th season. The Kuban Cossack Choir has toured Ukraine a number of times, and each concert was a dazzling discovery for the audiences. It boasts an extensive and variegated repertoire. What remains unchanged is the choir’s magnetic talent and a profound patriotic...

On Oct. 19, 2009, The Day handed over to two bookstores — Ye and one run by Kyiv Mohyla Academy — the tenth edition in the The Day’s Library Series: two volumes under the title Extract 150. According to the bookstore staff, within just a few days after the two-volume edition found its place on the...

The Embassy of France and the French Cultural Center recently launched Flowers of Romance, an exhibit of Andr? Jolivet’s paintings, at the National Art Museum of Ukraine. The exhibit will remain open until November 1. Just a day after the gallery opening, the organizers launched a unique project,...

On occasion of the 70th birth anniversary of this outstanding Ukrainian writer, Ukraine’s National Museum of Literature has opened an exhibit dedicated to his work.Valerii Shevchuk’s works are a kind of research into the nature of things and yet his attention is always focused on man, be it a human...

A few days ago the Ye Bookstore launched an anthology edited by the philologist Vira Aheieva, a well-known Ukrainian literary scholar and critic. The book contains the finest examples of 20th-century Ukrainian short prose, including works by Olha Kobylianska, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Mykhailo Yatskiv...