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Soon, a collection of unique antiquities is to be exhibited in the Ukrainian capital: sculptures, ceramics, weapons made of copper and stone; clothes; decorations from gold, copper, enamel and precious stones. Not long ago treasures of lost civilizations returned to the National Kyiv-Pechersk cultural reserve...

Ukraine’s leaders appear to have missed out on a great opportunity for improving the nation’s image abroad. The country was invited to participate in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 2014, but evidently Ukraine’s government decided it was not worth the $800,000 participation fee. Now, Ukraine’s slot is in danger of being taken up by another ...

By and by, Ukrainians are starting to master the art of Mexican Huichol Indians. Andriy, a 33-year old Kyiver, has played an Indian in a film of Mykhailo Illenko called “The one who has gone though the fire”. For many years, Andriy has been a fan of the culture of the North American Indians...

Half a thousand examples of Ukrainian ritual bread were brought to Ivan Honchar Museum in Kiev from a hundred villages of Ukraine. With this unique exhibition called “I’m baking, baking tasty bread” the Museum staff and the exhibition visitors honored those who died during the famine of the 1932-33.

Watching Ukrainian brides wearing huge wreaths of goose feathers in old photographs I have never imagined I would be able for real to see a contemporary bride wearing this kind of wedding head dress. But in August this year I chanced to visit a wedding in the traditional style that took place in Veliky Kluchiv ...

The angel theme is the most popular one before Christmas, especially in the art society. Each master tries to create a special divine messenger – from paper, clay, wood, metal, textiles, threads, corn ears, straw etc. Angels are unique and original but all of them have several common traits: they are solemn and merry...

Never believe anyone saying that our people learned to write in the Хth century when Byzantine written language reached us: the Stonebarrow had had inscriptions 14 thousand years earlier and they looked much similar to an ornament. Those signs and symbols lay at the basis of our written language. It didn’t disappear; we have just ...

Euhen Hapych, a photographer from Kolomiya is sure of this. For half a year he has been traveling to this village taking photographs of folk masters in the process of work. 130 of his best photos which picture thirty local masters were presented in the Hetmanship museum in Kyiv...

Over eighty paper-cut vytynanka compositions of Mykola Telizhenko, an honored artist of Ukraine, are exhibited in Kyiv, in the hall of “Ivan Honchar Museum” – the National Center of Folk Culture. The exhibition will be open till the August 12th.

Now Kyiv has a church ornamented by Petrykivka painting. The interior of the Saint George church belonging to the Kyiv patriarchy was painted by two artists from Petrykivka village – Galyna Nazarenko and Iryna Kibets – within several weeks.

"It happens people wear such caps as my dolls, they are special favorites among men. But certainly they do not wear chokhas (coats) because it is in the Georgian custom that if one wears a chokha one should have a dagger on him...".

Linda Norris, a well-known expert in museums from the USA, wrote a nice review in her personal blog about Volodymyr Kitselyuk who "revives and preserves ancient life of Hutsuls in digital formats".

Is it possible to do better than participants of the Brazilian Carnival? – With ease! Head-dresses that can be considered works of art have been manufactured in the Veliky Klyuchiv region since long ago. Paraska Kushlyak’s wreaths made of goose feathers are really unique works.

The gigantic national motanka-doll, presented in the Ukrainian House in Kiev on the 21st of May, will be exhibited abroad. It will be presented to the foreign spectators at the international art exhibitions. The motanka-doll will go on its first trip on August. It is planned to present the doll in Brussels on the Independence ...

A new Ukrainian record was held in Kyiv. The biggest motanka-doll in Ukraine was installed there on the 30th of April. The doll was created by two ladies: a master Oksana Smereka-Malyk and a master of the national folk doll Larysa Telizhenko. The height of the doll reached 3 meters.

This is a very rare ocassion that students’ term and diploma assignments become items of exhibitions. But Kosiv Institute of Applied and Decorative Art has something to be proud of. On February 8 an exhibition of such items - the final students’ and the teachers’ works of this Institute - was opened in the capital ...

Birds came back from the South long ago. They have already managed to build nests and hatch their nestlings. However small children always enjoy ceremonial cookies in the shapes of birds traditionally baked at the beginning of spring to call the birds back to the native regions from the South...

Usually, eggs are painted both before and after the Easter. People begin ornamenting pysankas starting from Candlemas Day (February, 15th). The process lasts until the “Green holidays” or Whitsunday which falls on June, 12th this year.

We have already started up a full English version of the Web Site. The Home Page of Rukotvory has assumed portal aspect. Henceforth it is much easier to keep up with news and bills of art events. We have also made the section of folk artists and the search of creative people by their family ...

Zozulytsya was recognized as the best project at the international exhibition of contemporary art called “Ukrainian Art Week”. It is the name of a whistle having a bird shape that symbolizes ancient Ukrainian history and the mission of which is to unite football and cultural heritage of the Euro-2012 host countries.