In his influential book Democratic Ideals and Reality Halford John Mackinder summarises his Heartland Theory with the following statement: “Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the ...
Karol Radziszewski began his art publication DIK Fagazine in 2005, and has since delved into the little-known queer archives of former Soviet Union countries. DIK Fagazine gradually evolved from a ...
The Walker Art Center stages a rare survey of the courageous work that bloomed in the Eastern bloc, as artists struggled against state repression. By Jason Farago Reporting from the Walker Art Center ...
It was 1983, and East German artist Gabriele Stötzer was being watched. She had already spent a year in prison, and the Stasi, the East German secret police, shuttered her underground gallery. But ...
The Vancouver Art Gallery will present Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s, a major survey that brings together over 100 artists from six Central Eastern European ...
This is part of a Pew Research Center series of reports exploring the behaviors, values and opinions of the teens and twenty-somethings that make up the Millennial Generation. A Pew Global Attitudes ...