Art

What is the repatriation of cultural property? Experiences after World War II and during the Russo-Ukrainian war

The term “repatriation” is heard more and more as discussions around returning Ukraine’s cultural heritage gather steam. Some are looking to other nations’ colonial and postwar pasts as a guide for how these return processes might unfold.
This material seeks...

Kherson Art or inspired by Polina Raiko

Outside the metropolis, contemporary art is more of an exception than a norm. However, the artists behind the Polina Raiko Charitable Fund and the Kherson Museum of Contemporary Art are challenging this notion. In a regular Kherson apartment, Viacheslav Mashnytskyi...

Response of Ukrainian artists to the war started by the Russian Federation. Part 8

The Resistance

Stopping tanks with their bare hands, downing an enemy drone with a can of tomatoes, repelling information attacks round the clock, or finding essential supplies for the military in mere minutes — that’s how Ukrainians, who oppose the Russian...

Response of Ukrainian artists to the war started by the Russian Federation. Part 7

“If you had studied properly, you wouldn’t have gone to Chornobyl” – what else can we say to the Russian army? It looks like they have never bothered to learn history (not to mention physics, specifically the topic of radiation).

Response of Ukrainian artists to the war started by the Russian Federation. Part 6

Cities

Ukrainian cities are standing and holding up, although Russia has been dropping missiles at them and shelling them for more than a month, and its media brazenly lie that Russia does not bombard civilian objects.

Saving Maria Prymachenko’s Paintings

On the fourth day of Russia’s invasion, the Ukrainian media published the heartbreaking news that Russian occupiers destroyed the museum of local history in Ivankiv, which contained the paintings of Maria Prymachenko, the world-renowned representative of naïve art. This story,...

The reaction of foreign artists to the war started by Russia

Art is also a weapon. At a time when social networks are blocking “awkward” hashtags and posts with photos and videos, the works of artists are becoming significant evidence of everything that is really happening.

Response of Ukrainian artists to the war started by the Russian Federation. Part 3

Ukrainians bravely stand against the enemy in their cities and villages. Elderly people stop tanks with their bare hands; farmers take enemy equipment back to their farms as a trophy; hundreds of volunteers help the army and civilians in any...