New East Digital Archive

Art & Culture

‘It feels like begging:’ why Bosnia’s national museums are struggling to survive

‘It feels like begging:’ why Bosnia’s national museums are struggling to survive

The Other Bulgarian Women: the show dividing a country

The Other Bulgarian Women: the show dividing a country

Lines of resistance: Kazakhstan’s poets face the aftermath of protest

Lines of resistance: Kazakhstan’s poets face the aftermath of protest

July Rain is a New Wave-esque Soviet classic about alienation and love | Film of the week

July Rain is a New Wave-esque Soviet classic about alienation and love | Film of the week

‘To have power you need guts:’ writer-in-exile Ak Welsapar on resistance in Turkmenistan

‘To have power you need guts:’ writer-in-exile Ak Welsapar on resistance in Turkmenistan

Our Family Garden: building a living monument to heal the scars of war

Our Family Garden: building a living monument to heal the scars of war

​​Landscapes of power: Detours looks at Moscow through the eyes of darknet drug deals

​​Landscapes of power: Detours looks at Moscow through the eyes of darknet drug deals

Inside Zagreb’s Museum of Broken Relationships, where you can peruse mementos from failed romances

Inside Zagreb’s Museum of Broken Relationships, where you can peruse mementos from failed romances

‘I had the courage to work at the very root of evil:’ 3 poems by Romanian poet Mariana Marin

‘I had the courage to work at the very root of evil:’ 3 poems by Romanian poet Mariana Marin

Excel-art: the series taking aim at corporate culture

Excel-art: the series taking aim at corporate culture

Party like it's 1999: reliving Bulgaria’s turn of the millennium techno scene

Party like it’s 1999: reliving Bulgaria’s turn of the millennium techno scene

Paradise hills: the star-studded history and uncertain future of Armenia’s legendary Soviet-era composers’ retreat

Paradise hills: the star-studded history and uncertain future of Armenia’s legendary Soviet-era composers’ retreat

The unknown Parajanov: watch the auteur’s triptych of short films | Film of the week

The unknown Parajanov: watch the auteur’s triptych of short films | Film of the week

Tchaikovsky’s Wife: Kirill Serebrennikov announces new film project

Tchaikovsky’s Wife: Kirill Serebrennikov announces new film project

The soap opera story of Jazz Section, Czechoslovakia’s unintended cultural rebels

The soap opera story of Jazz Section, Czechoslovakia’s unintended cultural rebels

Marina Tsvetaeva: where to start with her literature

Marina Tsvetaeva: where to start with her literature

The women who shaped Moldovan feminism, celebrated in illustrations

The women who shaped Moldovan feminism, celebrated in illustrations

Behind the legacy of Alexander Deineka, the artist who captured the USSR’s endless ode to winter sport

Behind the legacy of Alexander Deineka, the artist who captured the USSR’s endless ode to winter sport

‘Feelings can occupy the resistance:' 2 Latvian poems by Ligija Purinaša and Katrīna Rudzīte

‘Feelings can occupy the resistance:’ 2 Latvian poems by Ligija Purinaša and Katrīna Rudzīte

Two college friends ponder 30-something regret in Krzysztof Zanussi’s The Structure of Crystal | Film of the week

Two college friends ponder 30-something regret in Krzysztof Zanussi’s The Structure of Crystal | Film of the week