Glance at Culture - The Art Unit Founder Mariia Kashchenko on Making Art Accessible, Ukraine's Culture & Heritage, and Art In Times of War

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SHOW NOTES:         

1:40 reason for founding The Art Unit to make art more accessible for collectors and creatives

4:45 Ukrainian artist Nataliia Verbova based in Germany

5:00 Ukrainian artist Margo Sarkisova fled Eastern Ukraine in 2014 and recently fled Kharkiv

5:30 Ukrainian artist Bohdan Svyrydov

7:00 Ukrainian artist Sergiy Kondratiuk and his series of Soviet porcelain figurines

10:15 Challenges Ukrainians face with misappropriation of culture

12:50 The Gates of Europe by Ukrainian historian Serhii Plokhy 

13:40 Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko

14:15 weaponization of culture and history

14:45 works by Ukrainian artist Maria Prymachenko damaged by Russian war

16:00 oppression of Ukrainian culture and history

17:20 Homeward by directed by Nariman Aliev and Crimean Tartars

18:35 Importance of art in times of war

19:20 Ukrainian artist Olena Shtepura

19:50 Ukrainian artist Polina Shcherbyna 

20:15 Charcoal swirl mother and child

20:25 Artists acting as a conscience for society

21:20 Ukrainian artist Margo Sarkisova’s war diary – works on paper employing symbolic imagery

22:40 utility of art versus photography 

24:00 war photographer Maksim Levin

24:40 Timur Dzhafarov aka John Object’s war diary on Instagram

26:00 The Art Unit’s impact on culture by helping to raise the voices of emerging artists

28:00 Change in her definition of justice

30:00 Russian propaganda that war is only targeting military bases 

31:10 art addressing war by Olena Shtepura

31:20 art addressing war by Polina Shcherbyna with real & surreal imagery

32:00 works to come that will interprete the war as the war will continue to be a main topic

33:00 multiple generations of Ukrainians have experienced war

33:20 art creating the language to go forward with Russia as the neighbor after the war 

35:45 looting during the war

36:15 how to deal with the destruction of Ukraine when she returns

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