Svitlana Ahrest-Korotkova

The Folio publishing house introduced to the Ukrainian reader for the first time one of the most famous and globally published Israeli writers, Meir Shalev, whose novel My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner has appeared in the series “Map of the World,” translated by...

Entering its 47th year, the Kyiv Molodist International Film Festival moved to spring, as if coming back to its origins. Apart from the choice of season, it demonstrates its striving for renewal through ideas, locations, layout of non-competitive programs and events. The latter include educational...

A talented, proud, and always persecuted people managed to preserve its national identity and formed at last a state of its own – Israel – 70 years ago. Since then, a small territory has turned form a stone desert into a flourishing oasis, built cities and factories,...

Having quickly won not only Kyivan audiences, but also visitors from other cities to their side, founders of the new theater space called Stage 6 surprised and pleased the public once again. For two days, the stage was “occupied” by the international project Russophobia. The...

Thanks to indefatigable efforts of the UKHO producer agency in the field of contemporary music, the National Opera staged a premiere of the opera Luci Mie Traditrici (“My Betraying Eyes”) by Salvatore Sciarrino. Local music lovers, as well as many representatives of the diplomatic corps...

It has become a good tradition for Olha Petrova to open exhibitions, which introduce another phase of her new achievements, in February, on her birthday (or close to that date). When observing this woman who, being full of youthful drive and creative enthusiasm, is an artist and a philosopher, a...

Zoltan Micska (1949-2017), a marvelous Ukrainian artist born in and inspired by Transcarpathia, a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts, has departed this life too early, leaving behind a good memory and a very rich artistic heritage. His works adorn not only a gallery in his home city of...

Each of us is attracted to art in one’s own way, and perceives it in one’s own way as well. Some sit on the couch, flip through luxuriously and not-so-luxuriously printed albums, and explore beautiful things by grinding through the lengthy interpretations of art critics. Others nurture...

Artist and philosopher Oleksandr Dubovyk, with his masterly command of both the brush and the word, does not really need an introduction. His wisdom and daring, professionalism and a continual searching, expertise, and the youth of his soul are what makes him so attractive. One could write...

Stella Beniaminova’s Stedley Art Foundation carries out projects that popularize, above all, the oeuvre of contemporary Ukrainian artists. Many of these projects have demonstrated their new works as well as the development of their art visions in the course of time. “Calendar of...