The completion of the MO Modern Art Museum in the Lithuania capital Vilnius in the autumn of 2018 was one of the most eagerly-awaited cultural openings in the Baltics...
Tag - Culture
Olga Tokarczuk’s Nobel Prize Lecture has been named Emerging Europe’s Artistic Achievement 2020. The Polish writer won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature for...
Political oppression is a tale as old as politics itself. For young Czech director Patrik Krivanek, the battle for freedom against political injustice served as...
Street art as a whole, including graffiti and murals, has exploded on the art scene worldwide. And now a new generation of artists is expressing itself through combining...
Statues and monuments have never been more topical. A wave of iconoclasm has swept across much of the western world, forcing several countries to belatedly question...
The Via Pontica, an important migration route for birds in Eastern Europe, runs along the Black Sea coast of Romania and Bulgaria. Bats also use this route. In this...
Travel throughout emerging Europe is once again possible, albeit with some restrictions (you can check those at this enormously useful European Union website). Bulgaria...
Playwright and president, Václav Havel was widely regarded as the moral compass of modern Czechia. The recipient of numerous peace awards and accolades, his career as...
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 lovers plenty of food for...
Identity and place are complexities that migrants all too often grapple with. In Ena Sendijarević’s debut feature film Take Me Somewhere Nice, she explores her confusing...
Whenever I hear Balkan food described as drab I feel a twitch of sadness. Balkan cuisine is easily comparable to the highly evolved cuisines of Italy and France. I say...
Christo Vladimirov Javacheff dared to dream on an epic scale. His art stepping far beyond the boundaries of the canvas and into the world, having created masterpieces on...
