Yulia Lytvynets: “Museums must be open. And to be open, they need to feel safe”

“People often come to museums in the Netherlands. Just to hide away from the rain,” Yulia Lytvynets, Chief Custodian of Ukraine’s National Art Museum, says. The recent revolutionary events changed the angle from which her museum’s staff approached preserving the collection and the museum building and building horizontal relationships between museums and individuals.

Pavlo Gudimov: “A different vision is not a pretext to resort to Russian-like hysteria and absurd politicization of culture”

Renowned gallery-owner and musician talks about on ways to prevent people turning into titushkas, consolidation of artists and futility of fascist methods in culture.

Calendar of Events

Film festivals, Nino Katamadze and ballet-fairy tale.

Calendar of Events

Jose Luis Merlin, DakhaBrakha and Unity International Jazz Festival

Christmas in Ukraine

The revolutionary Christmas Tree on Independence Square, fairs, carols with Cossacks and festive symphonies to see and hear this season

Revolution in Art

EuroMaidan in posters, images and objects that could well become art installations

Art Reconciliation

An attempt to whitewash Art Arsenal after censorship in the previous show

Tearing Down Covers

Photographer Borys Mykhailov talks about the ability to weed out beauty, the emptiness of PR and art lovers

Calendar of Events: Twenty Shades of Youth

Contemporary art from young Ukrainians and a history of escape from the 20th-century avant-garde Odesa-based painters

Waste No Moment

B-movie director Roger Corman talks about dealing with viewer's unconscious mind, new facilities for cinematography and resistance in human nature

Night at the Museum, Jazz Groove and New British Films

The Ukrainian Week offers a selection of events to attend this month

The Master of Musical Compromise

Composer Myroslav Skoryk talks about the decline of avant-garde and the mystery of music

Don’t Wake the Neighbours

Norwegian pianist Bugge Wesseltoft combines grand piano and electronic effects at a concert in Kyiv

See and Hear

Festival of overtone music,exclusive handmade doll show, Brazilian bossa nova and Industrial Eden

Giving New Life to Old Traditions

Virlana Tkacz, an American theatre director with Ukrainian roots, talks about experimental and accessible theatre, culture on the edge, and the struggle to build an audience

Parajanov, 70s Art and Contemporary Music

The first two weeks of October offer a look at the life of a great film director, an alternative portrait of the Soviet 1970s from underground artists, a festival of new German movies and plenty of great music

Inventor of the Femme Fatale

How Leopold von Sacher-Masoch went from writer to masochist

Dig Deeper

An intimate story of a solitary traveler from Gogol Bordello

Harmonizing Ethno Chaos

DakhaBrakha’s lead singer Marko Halanevych talks about music tastes in Ukraine and post-modernist folklore

Amateur Rake

Good read, jazz and indie arts: The Ukrainian Week invites you to the annual book forum in Lviv, jazz festival in Crimea, Gogolfest in Kyiv and more interesting places to visit this month

Simple Philosophy

Dramatic vocals, acoustic guitars and synthetic retro bass - Ukrainian pop-rock band Lama released its third album

Kazimir Malevich and Ukrainian Avant-garde

Jean-Claude Marcadé speaks about the obstacles keeping 20th-century Ukrainian avant-garde art from gaining worldwide renown

Forgotten Relics

Theatre, Music and Film Theatre reveals theatre and film life in the 20th-century Ukraine. Plus, a selection of events to see this month

New Traditions in Apolitical Art

Censorship at the Great and Grand show at Art Arsenal

Researching Complexity, Stupidity and Weakness

Writer Marina Lewycka talks about Ukrainians in the UK, her writing and the modern era of dishonest people

What to See, Watch and Listen in July

The Ukrainian Week offers a selection of art shows, film festivals and concerts to visit this month