Olga Tokarczuk’s Nobel Prize Lecture has been named Emerging Europe’s Artistic Achievement 2020. The Polish writer won the 2018...
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To Șoarș, a small village just over the hills from the Transylvanian city of Făgăraș, a village in which my mother-in-law worked (at the...
Political oppression is a tale as old as politics itself. For young Czech director Patrik Krivanek, the battle for freedom against...
Street art as a whole, including graffiti and murals, has exploded on the art scene worldwide. And now a new generation of artists is...
Statues and monuments have never been more topical. A wave of iconoclasm has swept across much of the western world, forcing several...
The Via Pontica, an important migration route for birds in Eastern Europe, runs along the Black Sea coast of Romania and Bulgaria. Bats...
Travel throughout emerging Europe is once again possible, albeit with some restrictions (you can check those at this enormously useful...
Playwright and president, Václav Havel was widely regarded as the moral compass of modern Czechia. The recipient of numerous peace awards...
The Lithuanian capital Vilnius, which has been making something of a name for itself over the past couple of months, coming up with a...
Estonia is open for business and ready to welcome visitors, and the Tallinn Bienniale, which kicks off on July 2, looks set to provide art...
Identity and place are complexities that migrants all too often grapple with. In Ena Sendijarević’s debut feature film Take Me Somewhere...
Dancing bears used to be common on the streets and villages of Eastern Europe. These tamed wild animals were kept in captivity and trotted...
Whenever I hear Balkan food described as drab I feel a twitch of sadness. Balkan cuisine is easily comparable to the highly evolved...