In 1978, Zofia Rydet, an already well-known Polish photographer by that time, set off to Rabka, a small town in Podhale region, where she took the first photographs from what would later become her most…

Vitalii Shupliak is an arstist, born in Berezhany (Ukraine), and currently based in Germany. He works with video, installation and performance, and is a founder of Pi Gallery, as well as a former member of…

While planning my visit to the National Museum of Ukrainian History during my recent stay in Kiev, I searched the internet for opening hours and clicked on the Lonely Planet article about the institution. It…

Канадський історик українського походження СЕРГІЙ ЄКЕЛЬЧИК про те, з чого мала б починатись українська декомунізація, й те, як популізм вихолощує важливі гасла.

Croatian writer and journalist Slavenka Drakulic may be called a communism anthropologist. What she studies is soviet mentality. That may be documenting women’s experience of everyday life in socialism (“How We Survived Communism and Even…

The stories of iconoclasm carried out by artists, and not by religious or ideological censors, come down to us from the time when these acts began to be recorded in artists’ biographies. In a few…