Mar 3, 2024 | La culture Européenne
Cancel culture vs. execute culture Just after the Russian invasion, the novelist Victoria Amelina wrote an essay warning that Ukraine’s cultural community faced the same fate as the Executed Renaissance in the 1930s. On 1 July, Amelina herself died of injuries...
Mar 3, 2024 | Europäische Kultur, European Culture, La culture Européenne
The Peter Pan Effect My grandmother had to read Peter Pan out loud to me more than thirty times. No, I understood everything the first time, I just loved the book so much – I can’t even remember why. But it doesn’t matter anymore. It’s just...
Mar 1, 2024 | Europäische Kultur, European Culture, La culture Européenne
It is not uncommon for armed conflicts to drag art and cultural objects into the spiral of violence: the case of the Russian attack on Ukraine is a very vivid example. At the very beginning of the war, on 24 February 2022, the Russian army captured the city of...
Oct 22, 2023 | European Union
The EU enlargement is high on the political agenda for some time now, but the EU is not ready yet to welcome new members, neither institutionally nor policy wise. A so called working group on EU institutional reforms was invited in January 2023 by the French and...
Oct 1, 2023 | European Culture
Apart from blank walls, the Russians didn’t leave much behind at the Kherson Art Museum. No bombs fell here, and yet something had to be destroyed: the identity of an entire nation. You can imagine it. With a little imagination. The illuminated rooms, the...
