Culture

Amanda Sonesson speaks to Johanna Rannula about her exhibit Siberian White, documenting the experiences of Estonians forcibly relocated to Siberia by the USSR.

When Russia began gradually enforcing quarantines in late March, the country’s art community followed suit. Galleries transitioned to online, performance art became virtual, and recreating famous [...]

Louis Train reviews Evgeny Grishkovets's novel The Hemingway Game.

My body of collages is the result of the curiosity of an outsider on the subject of the USSR, an attempt to deeply comprehend Soviet art and culture through full immersion in the topic. Through [...]

The National Theatre of Albania was an essential part of the architectural landscape of Tirana. The Italian architect Giulo Berte, who had designed other prominent public buildings in Tirana, [...]

It’s an unfortunate fact that no Russian writer since Solzhenitsyn has penetrated the Western consciousness; no composer since Shostakovich, and no playwright since Chekhov, either. But Russian [...]

I went to Crimea alone for the first time in 2015. I took a backpack and my friend’s iPod with the complete Talk Talk discography.  I call this series “Coming of Age” – [...]

Because of the pandemic, the government of Poland has set rigid restrictions. We are only allowed to make necessary outings, such as short walks for mental health, or trips to the grocer or [...]

Even though I was born and raised in Riga, I don’t think I knew the city until I moved to the centre. It’s more interesting and multifaceted than I once thought.  In the time of the virus, I [...]

Another day, another army of tourist buses. Such is the new normal in the Zone: the 1000-square-mile exclusion zone in northern Ukraine, created by the Soviet authorities after the fatal [...]