Language, memory, heritage under fire, and what a country decides to protect when it cannot protect everything.
In 2024 Ukrainian cities began building schools designed to operate below ground. That is a strange sentence, and the reasoning behind it is sound.
By mid-2024 the touring Ukrainian modernism exhibition had reached a major London institution. What began as an evacuation had become a circuit.
By early 2024 whether a Ukrainian child sat in a classroom depended on one thing: whether the school had somewhere safe to go when the siren…
Restoring a damaged historic building requires skills that a country loses quietly when it stops needing them. Rebuilding that workforce is slower than rebuilding the buildings…
An exhibition of early twentieth-century Ukrainian art opened in Spain at the end of 2023. The works were rescued, and the argument they make is one…
Four years of pandemic and war schooling produced a measurable gap in what children know. By 2023 the response had moved from keeping schools open to…
In September 2023 a substantial number of Ukrainian schools reopened for in-person teaching. What made it possible was concrete, in the literal sense.
Evacuating a collection protects it. Exhibiting it abroad does something else: it puts Ukrainian art into the permanent record of European museums, in front of audiences…
In June 2023 a cohort finished secondary school having spent most of it online, and sat an admissions examination redesigned for a country under attack.
In the middle of 2023 a handful of Byzantine icons from a damaged Kyiv museum went on show in Paris. Protecting them and showing them turned…
By early 2023 Ukrainian schooling had completed a full year of teaching under attack, and the sector had learned things worth writing down.
On 25 January 2023 UNESCO inscribed the historic centre of Odesa on the World Heritage List and simultaneously on the List of World Heritage in Danger…
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