Culture
Europe
Switzerland Takes Home Another Victory in Eurovision 2024; Ukraine Secures Third Place
Ukraine’s representatives, Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil, performing the song “Teresa & Maria,” clinched third place with a total of 453 points.
May 12, 2024
Ukraine Wants to Be ‘Visible’ in Eurovision Clouded by Israel
This year’s Eurovision contest has so far been dominated by calls for Israel to be excluded over its war in Gaza, which the organizers rejected.
May 4, 2024
Odesa
Seeing Love and Resurrection During Wartime: Mikhail Reva Unveils His New Sculpture in Odesa
Ukraine’s most internationally acclaimed sculptor has just completed a project in Odesa that coincides with Easter celebrations throughout the country.
April 28, 2024
War in Ukraine
Ukrainian Musical Breakthrough
Not only has the war led to greater visibility for Ukrainian culture, it has also spurred musicians to compose works that convey the nation’s current struggle, pain and hope.
April 26, 2024
US
Yuriy Tarnawsky: Literary Insurgent
Co-founder of the New York Group, the avant-garde poet and novelist has pushed the boundaries of what is possible with language and form more than any Ukrainian writer.
April 21, 2024
Canada
Encountering Ukraine at Canada’s Stratford Festival
A veritable renaissance of Ukrainian theater was on display in Canada, where the works of contemporary playwrights were read and discussed against the background of classics.
April 7, 2024
Russia
Russian Writer Bulgakov Deemed Symbol of ‘Russian Imperialist Policy’
The Kyiv-born author of “The Master and Margarita” was dismissive of Ukrainian language and culture and is now a target of a “decolonization” campaign
April 4, 2024
Cinema
Ukrainian Actress Cancels Netflix Deal After Refusing to Play a Russian Woman
Star Wars actress and cultural ambassador cancels lucrative contract, settles on a sum of 50 percent of a different upcoming Netflix production
April 2, 2024
Art
Mikhail Reva: Stirring the Soul – With Shrapnel Transformed Into Art
When the war came down on his home, Ukraine’s best-known sculptor felt compelled to transform the destruction into a defiant act of creative transformation.
March 31, 2024
Ukraine Has Great Young Talents - Director, Scriptwriter, Oleksandr Khomenko is One of Them
One of Ukraine's bright young stars in the cultural sphere Oleksandr Khomenko, tells Kyiv Post's Chief Editor, Bohdan Nahaylo, about a major project he's involved in - a feature film The Slovo House.
March 30, 2024
Ukraine
Brushes Against Bullets
The role of art in countering Russian aggression cannot be underestimated. By elaborating traditional Ukrainian motifs, one artist confirms a distinct tradition that debunks Putin’s myths.
March 30, 2024
Ukraine
Bakota – Ukraine’s Beautiful and Mysterious Atlantis
Bakota is famous for its awesome landscape, millennium-old cave monastery and its enigmatic ancient dolmen.
March 16, 2024
Mariupol
'20 Days in Mariupol' Award Presentation Cut Citing 'Time Constraints'
Despite winning the Oscar for “Best Documentary Feature Film” the moment they got the award to celebrate its achievement was missing from the highlights program.
March 12, 2024
Ukraine
Zelensky on Vital Importance of Defending Culture During Wartime
Ukraine’s president on the 210th anniversary of the birth of Ukraine’s national poet Taras Shevchenko stressed the importance of safeguarding the nation’s culture.
March 10, 2024
Shevchenko and Aldridge: Black and White Artistic Brothers in Arms Against Slavery
How Ukraine’s national poet and former serf bonded with a visiting Afro-American actor and former slave.
March 9, 2024
Ukraine
Ukraine’s Femmes Fatales
On March 8, International Women’s Day, we remember some of their representatives from Ukraine who amazed with their beauty, brains, resilience, creativity and sex appeal.
March 8, 2024
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