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March 26th, 2012
KIEV, UKRAINE — The shutting down of an exhibition in Kiev last month became something of a performance art piece in its own right. The show, “Ukrainian Body,” which opened Feb. 7 at the Visual Culture Research Center at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, aimed to [Read more]
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April 25th, 2012
VISEGRAD, BOSNIA—Those familiar with Emir Kusturica’s films—including the award-winning movies like “Underground” and “When Father was Away on Business”—know he loves to give historical events a Surrealistic bent. But the director, musician and actor’s latest project might be his weirdest idea to date. Andricgrad, named after the [Read more]
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December 30th, 2011
LONDON, UK — It was little wonder that Mila Turajlic looked a tad weary during a recent interview in a London cafe. The 32-year-old Serbian documentary filmmaker had flown overnight from Chicago and was off again the next day for short trips to Portugal, France, Prague and [Read more]
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December 7th, 2011
LONDON, UK--Vesna Goldsworthy has always had the soul of a poet. Back in the days before Yugoslavia was confined to being just an entity on a historical map, Goldsworthy (née Bjelogrlic) was something of a celebrated young poet in her homeland. At the age of 23, the [Read more]
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March 1st, 2012
KIEV, UKRAINE—This was supposed to be a different story. Back in December, I got in touch with London’s Royal Opera House (ROH), requesting to do an interview with their First Soloist, Sergei Polunin. The Ukrainian-born Polunin, 22, has been heralded as his generation’s answer to Rudolph Nureyev [Read more]
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April 19th, 2012
BELGRADE, SERBIA—So I may sound like something of a heathen but I have never really been a huge fan of contemporary classical music. Last spring, a friend and I went to a concert of Estonian contemporary classical music in London and most of the stuff sounded to [Read more]
