When the proposal was made in summer 2008 to present KrAM (Criticism of Actual Art) internationally and in particular to the audience of INDEX (the Swedish Contemporary Foundation, Stockholm) all the founders of KrAM began to think… Mainly they wondered if the project would be understood, given that it makes sense only in a Ukrainian context and is intended for the Ukrainian reader. It seems that it would be unsuitable for the foreign art expert…
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Useless Reading
Kateryna Botanova
The great power of art
Unspoiled by visits by foreign stars, Ukrainian cultural figures continue to remarkably manage to preserve a provincial soul in their reception of guests.
Alevtina Kakhidze
My husband's eyes are like Jeanne Samary's*
- Who’s Jeanne Samary?
- Renoir painted her.
- And your husband has eyes like her?
- Yes.
- And what does this mean?
Taras Lyuty
Does an artist need to be paid
I think it was Marx who said that every job should be compensated. But the issue lies in reducing art to economics, and thereby solving all problems…
Yuliya Vaganova
The closed and “open” Ukrainian topic or who should pay whom in the art world and how?
If barter between artist and gallery is underdeveloped and primitive, then what can one say about the relationship between curators and galleries.
Virtual Vova
Statement 1
When seeing students from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, I am obsessed by the thought: “Shave half of them and send them to the PTU!*”
