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The Ukrainian Artist Who Embroiders to Survive
"We won't be destroyed by anyone," said 85-year-old artist Maria Zarembska. "My people are present now and my people will be present forever."
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Ukrainian Artists Address the War Head-On, Obliquely, and Grittily
Amidst wreckage sites and bomb shelters, artists are making work, manufacturing drones, and celebrating life.
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The Artists Making Work in Wartime Ukraine
Amid the evil of it, the war has ushered in a wave of visual creation in Kyiv, all the more powerful because of its urgency and vital intensity.
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Paris’s Louvre Museum Is Safeguarding Ukrainian Antiquities
The 16 medieval works were secretly evacuated from the Khanenko Museum in Kyiv after a Russian missile strike last October.
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Russian Missile Strikes Damage at Least Seven Museums in Kyiv
Ukraine’s defense minister called the strikes, which targeted power plants and civilian areas, “war crimes.”
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Ukrainian Museum Documents the War Through Objects Left Behind
Curators at the Maidan Museum in Kyiv are sifting through the rubble for items that “tell the story of ordinary people’s lives, of their deaths."
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Ukraine Tears Down Kyiv's Massive "Soviet Friendship" Monument
The capital city will also rename 467 locations currently named after Russians.
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Street Murals Worldwide Show Love for Ukraine and Ire at Putin
From Norway to Mexico, street artists paint murals calling to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Ukraine Asks to Keep Measures to Protect Cultural Heritage Under Wraps
Publishing data about efforts to protect threatened cultural properties might expose them as targets for Russian troops and looters, the country’s deputy minister of culture warned.
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Ukrainian Artists Speak Out As Invasion Intensifies
"We've been screaming into the void for years," said artist Luba Drozd, who's been active in raising awareness about the crisis in her home country.
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As Russia Invades Ukraine, TikTokers Are Documenting the War
Mundane on-the-ground realities of warfare like urban bomb sirens in Kyiv to long lines outside gas stations hit the platform — but so does disinformation.
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Violent Clashes Erupted at One of Kyiv's Oldest Cinemas
During a conflict between municipal guards and activists protesting the privatization of Kyiv's cinemas, a group of over 300 protesters was met with violence and homophobic slurs.