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Home and Away

The resilience of Ukrainians can not be underestimated, and from that perspective, the resilience of Ukrainian art cannot be underestimated. Bjorn Gelhof, artistic director at the PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv) Much h...

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Different Cultural Devastation
Is a nation's culture always a measure of its history? Can modern culture match monuments and artefacts in significance? The destruction of a shopping mall in Kyiv this week p...
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Ukraine Psyche
As in other conflicts, we currently witness the unfolding of suffering in Ukraine that does not seem to end and we cannot stop. Alexandra Xanthaki, Special Rapporteur on cultu...
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Technology Annihilates/Technology Restores
“It's like being given an iPhone 13 and only being able to make phone calls,” said Sergeant Pysanka, clearly exasperated. Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Natalia Yernak, New York ...
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Live Performance in Ukraine
I never thought writing about myself in strange and difficult situations would be so challenging. Even when you imagine yourself a hero in a movie, or dream of different thing...
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Religion and State
In a 2018 survey 67.3% of the population practiced some kind of Christian Orthodoxy, with the remainder adhering to Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Judaism, Hindu, Buddhi...
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Safe Havens?
The material cultural legacy of the world is our common heritage, the identity and inspiration for all humanity. Cultural heritage has the power to unite us and is critical fo...
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Performance and Art
What else makes a culture? Apart from the devastating loss of many bricks and mortar symbols of Ukraine's culture, what else could the Russians be interrupting or destroying...
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Not Just Seven Pillars
St. Sophia Cathedral & Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Lviv Historic Centre, Struve Geodetic Arc, Virgin Beech Forests of the Carpathians, Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metro...
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Theatre Tradition
Theatre Square in Mariupol is no stranger to destruction. The recently bombed and destroyed theatre there was itself built upon the site of the old and second St. Mary Magda...
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4000 ways!
Russia's use of Grad Rockets is well documented but perhaps few lay people know the damage they can do to Ukraine's cultural heritage. It is, in fact, unlikely that such a ro...
WAR CRIMES
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where sick an...
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The Beating Heart of Men, Women and Children
Heritage provides us with a sense of place, a connectedness to that place, to land, traditions, customs and family (Beck, 1995) This article is about the cultural devastation ...