What “unofficial” Ukrainian art was like during the era of socialist realism

The Ukrainian Week spoke to Halyna and Lesya Telnyuk about how contemporary Shevchenko and Stus are today, the artistic comprehension of the Maidan, and the lessons of the Revolution of Dignity

Ups and downs of modern Ukrainian animation

The FBI seized the painting

How Ukrainian cinema faces modern challenges

Modern non-figurative Ukrainian painting is well-known abroad, but underrated at home

Ukrainian advertising agency Banda is the agency of the year, according to the prestigious Red Dot design award

On September 17, Yuriy Andrukhovych visited Kyiv to present Lithography, his new album with the band Karbido, at the Ukrainian Radio’s Recording Studio. Before that, The Ukrainian Week spoke to him about investments in culture, the new generation of writers and Ukraine’s place in the literature map of the world.

When Ukraine is asked today, what it can give to Europe, it doesn’t have to go far: it had once given Ukrainian avant-garde to the world. The task today is to win it back from being associated with the Russian culture by clearly identifying where it actually comes from.

Is there a place for pluralism and tolerance on Ukrainian stages?

How Leopold von Sacher-Masoch went from writer to masochist

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

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

Pavlo Hudimov talks about popular artists, the change in the cultural vector and why Ukrainians don’t understand contemporary art

Ukraine’s cultural heritage is in danger of being privatized

Ukraine’s funniest folk tales are retold in a new cartoon series called The Adventures of Kotyhoroshko and Friends

On 24 May – 31 July, the Art Arsenal is hosting Arsenale-2012, the 1st Kyiv International Biennale for Contemporary Art.

How can Ukrainian theatre be interesting to the rest of the world?

A golden pectoral saved poet and archeologist Borys Mozolevsky from prison in Mordvia

Les Kurbas’ innovative approaches went against the canon of social realism, so he was first removed from a cultural milieu and then physically destroyed

Director Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi is working on “The Tribe”, a full-length film about those who can neither speak nor hear, where conversations can be seen rather than heard

Woodland art, a painting style introduced by Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau, a member of the Ojibwe tribe, has also taken root in Ukraine

Under the pressure of Bolshevism, talented Kyiv architects were forced either to migrate or build monstrosities

Taras Prokhasko speaks on the fundamental elements of being, models of an ideal Ukraine and his own writings

Several art villages have sprung up alongside ecological settlements in Ukraine

Spend the holidays with Cossacks at the Mamayeva Sloboda open-air museum

Oleh Skrypka believes we can create strong communities by building links to our people’s past.

Silent film festivals which offer early 20th-century masterpieces in new artistic interpretations are a notable recent trend

Artist Pavlo Makov explains and decodes artistic images and symbols, modern phenomena and concepts

Why Ukrainian classical music is still “underground” outside the country

Until the end of his life, Oleksandr Dovzhenko dreamed of ideal communism, even though after shooting the film Zemlia (The Earth), he knew it would be a human tragedy

The ignorance of clergy disfigured an architectural masterpiece of national importance – the Saint Nicholas Monastery in Myltsi, Volyn region

Artist Oleksandr Ackerman talks about the phenomenon of the Zakarpattia school of painting and the sanctuary that is his own soul

Ukrainian classical music aficionados got the chance to listen to a new work by a first-class Ukrainian composer only after its world premiere in Tyumen

Modest and tasteful: despite financial losses this year, the film festival — scheduled to take place in Kyiv October 22-30 — will not suffer artistically

Donbas writers promote sociality

The only Ukrainian on the British rating list of Top 100 Living Geniuses, artist Ivan Marchuk, could not stay abroad and opened an exhibit in his home village of Moskalivka

Anton Slepakov speaks about the band's shell, fast food restaurants filled to capacity and government subsidies on beer and strings

He distributed anti-Soviet leaflets, burned the Soviet flag, and set up public organizations. Today Pavlo Otchenashenko is active in Odesa’s Ukrainian movement

His icons kept Polish painter Jerzy (Yuriy) Nowosielski spiritually connected to Ukraine

Painter Volodymyr Makarenko talks about freedom of art, non-conformity in the reality of the soviet system and his inspiration

Ethnic clothes have been in fashion for a long time now. An embroidered shirt has long been a profitable business rather than just considered national dress. The Ukrainian Week decided to find a Ukrainian embroidering center whose production would be a high-quality alternative to the spontaneous infatuation with ethnic attire