How Marcell Jankovics’ psychedelic animation lights a path for artists in an age of rising authoritarianism
This new book captures the history and reality of the black experience in Russia and Europe
Nonconformist Ukrainian painter, Alexander Dubovik, stayed true to himself | Calvert Reads
A party, a tragedy and existential comedowns: Knives is a generation anthem created from disaster
Can you believe? Watch Polish-Chinese musical artist Ai fen’s ethereal ode to the past year
Listen to a one-hour techno set from the top of Chernobyl’s sister nuclear power plant
Nunki Bay Starship provides mellow jazz for wandering minds
Indie band Borka Balogh transforms intergenerational trauma into fairytale-like healing
Soup Can Pop Band is a reflective and riotous album by Estonian indie rockers The Boondocks
Osip Mandelstam’s ‘Black Earth’ reaps sweetness from the darkest Soviet years | Calvert Reads
Bygone Days, the first Uzbek novel, is a political love story set in the colonial past | Calvert Reads
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, or Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (and the Pandemic)
Human tragedies made into spectacle take centre stage in Jakub Piątek’s Prime Time
Inside Creaks, a video game world inspired by Czech Cubism
