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Posts tagged as “Art”

Rendered History: Reclaiming the Truth of War in the Former Yugoslavia

Please join the Harriman Institute and the Columbia University Institute for the Study of Human Rights for a discussion with artist Vladimir Miladinovic and Srdjan Hercigonja(Columbia University, Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability Fellow, Institute for the Study of Human Rights) who are both members of the art/theory working group on memorial production strategies “Four Faces of Omarska”. Aida Šehović, artist and creator of…

Chornobyl: Artists Respond

In cooperation with The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA) in Chicago, Art at the Institute presents a special exhibition of original prints commemorating the thirty-first anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Organized by Walter Hoydysh, PhD, Curator and Director of Art at the Institute, and Stanislav Grezdo, Curator at UIMA, the exhibition frames thirty works on paper…

Geography: An Exhibition of Contemporary Neckwear Designs by Slava Salyuk

Join us for a special public reception on Saturday, March 18 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, as we welcome and celebrate the works of contemporary neckwear designer Slava Salyuk from Lviv, Ukraine. In her first showing with The Ukrainian Institute of America, Slava Salyuk presents intricate and ornate necklaces reflecting on global motifs and inclinations. Geography is a uniquely introspective…

How can Art Fight Back? Refugee Artists and the Ukrainian Crisis

Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Nazar Kozak (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2016-17 Fulbright scholar at the Ukrainian Museum in New York). Russia’s “hybrid war” against Ukraine caused more than a million refugees to flee from the Crimean peninsula and Donbas region. Artists were among them. While coping with…