Non-Russian avant-garde, or how Russia appropriates Ukrainian culture
One of the most well-known art phenomena from the ex-USSR, “russian[1] avant-garde” is perceived as a unique combination…
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A Habsburg in Kharkiv. Ukrainian avant-garde opera draws Eastern Ukraine closer to Europe
On October 1 and 2, 2021, Kharkiv celebrated the premiere of Alla Zahaykevych’s avant-garde opera ‘Vyshyvany. King of…
How a Ukrainian school teacher created a “mini-Louvre” in a remote village
Small and remote as it is, the village of Parkhomivka, located 100 kilometres from the east-Ukrainian city of…
“Man with a Movie Camera”: One day of a 1920’s Ukrainian city in the early Soviet times
Dzyga Vertov and his collaborators, his brother Mikhail Kaufman and wife Yelizaveta Svilova, believed that film should not…
Recovering the forgotten names of the Ukrainian avant-garde
Prior to 1917, four-fifths of the territory of contemporary Ukraine had been part of the Russian empire for…