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The KrAM Project - for the international audience 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… read on	Useless Reading The KrAM Project - for the international audience 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… read on	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. read on	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? read on
	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… read on	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. read on	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!*” read on