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Sep 26, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Gregory Volk
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, consider supporting us as a member. Join Us KYIV and LVIV, Ukraine — On my first night in Kyiv, there was a far-off explosion. Russia had launched 53 Iranian-made Shahed drones and five cruise missiles at Ukraine. Most were shot down, but one struck an industrial facility in Kyiv Oblast, on the outskirts of the city.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
aperture.org | Gregory Volk
On a three-week trip to Ukraine last spring, I experienced the innovative and engrossing exhibition , which felt like a labyrinthine voyage of discovery. It featured 166 photographs by twenty-four younger Ukrainians, the “next generation,” according to curators Isabella van Marle and Sonya Kvasha, of photographers and lens-based artists. This was a relatively rare and extremely welcome exhibition in Ukraine, where the art world has long skewed toward painting and sculpture.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Gregory Volk
VENICE — Two imposing pavilions in the Venice Biennale’s Giardini, the Polish and Russian, made dramatic changes late in the game, both opting to exhibit foreign artists. The first is excellent, the second exceptionally problematic. Figurative painter Ignacy Czwartos was originally selected to represent Poland.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Gregory Volk
According to the , Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s brutal war on Ukraine has resulted in some 6.5 million refugees, mostly women and children. Millions more have been internally displaced. Then there are the dead, both soldiers and civilians. The accurate number is tough to come by, but it is likely upwards of 80,000. And counting.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Gregory Volk
While I had vaguely heard of the Maypole dance over the years, the first one I experienced in person involved schoolchildren in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. My son had enrolled as a fifth grader in Brooklyn Waldorf School that year. Throughout the world, the Maypole dance is an annual Waldorf school rite. I never imagined how much this joyful celebration, often on May 1 or “May Day” — with uncertain but likely pagan European origins — would affect me.
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Jan 7, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Hrag Vartanian |Valentina Di Liscia |Katherine Kelaidis |Thomas Micchelli |Gregory Volk
You’re crashing from your holiday sugar high and the warm days of spring feel light years away; January sure can feel like the gloomiest month of the year. But it doesn’t have to be! Not if we make it our New Year’s resolution to see more art. It’s also a perfect time to catch up on exhibitions that opened in the fall madness, some of which are still on view.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
hyperallergic.com | Gregory Volk
LOS ANGELES — Long before reality television series like the ever-popular Naked and Afraid, true crime shows, and WWE and MMA extravaganzas entertained millions with the suffering (whether feigned or authentic) of others, there was the wildly popular yet short-lived phenomenon of dance marathons in the 1920s and ’30s. Throngs of paying customers watched contestants dance to the point of slumping exhaustion, or worse — not just for hours, but for days, weeks, even months.
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Aug 28, 2023 | 
hyperallergic.com | Gregory Volk
It is not often that an art exhibition radically alters one’s understanding of, and orientation within, a major urban landmark. Rowan Renee’s multifaceted The Perimeter Path in Brooklyn’s renowned Green-Wood Cemetery is definitely one of those times. Numerous well-known people are interred at Green-Wood and many visitors flock to their graves: Leonard Bernstein, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Boss Tweed, Charles Ebbets (of Brooklyn Dodgers’ fame), Governor DeWitt Clinton, among others.
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Jul 18, 2023 | 
adirondacklife.com | Niki Kourofsky |Elizabeth Folwell |Gregory Volk
One of the most beloved rituals in this, the season of campfire nights, is hunting for a proper roasting stick, whittling it to perfection, then charring your own bun-sized dinner over the flames. But here in the birthplace of the American vacation, our love for the most All-American of eats goes well beyond the campground.
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Jul 6, 2023 | 
adirondacklife.com | Niki Kourofsky |Jane Mackintosh |Annie Stoltie |Gregory Volk
by | August 2023, History Last summer, I was delighted to discover an article in this magazine about how the Caroga Arts Collective is bringing a musical revival to long-shuttered Sherman’s Amusement Park in Caroga Lake. Caroga Lake, my mother’s small hometown in Fulton County, has been dear to me my whole life. I lived there summers with my family when I was young.
