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Ukrainian Museum

LXCL:Reading Rave + Artist talk admission

Artist Talk

LXCL:Reading Rave registration, not attending the talk

Reading Rave Registration

The underground and daytime rave scene in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities has become a powerful form of cultural resistance during the war, qualities we need in New York right now, too. The Ukrainian Museum&rsquo;s Reading Rave brings total strangers together around books, offering volumes published in the 1950s and 60s by the renowned Mystetstvo publishing house in Kyiv, illustrated Diaspora editions and artist books by figures such as Jacques Hnizdovsky, and classics of art history in English spanning American Modernism and contemporary art criticism.Many of these Mystetstvo bilingual volumes are now scarce and increasingly difficult to find outside institutional collections, this is a rare chance for New Yorkers to leaf-through a genuine piece of Ukrainian print history. Among its output, Ukrainian Museum Reading Rave guest readers &nbsp;will find high-quality bilingual art monographs and photo albums documenting Ukrainian art history, &nbsp;many produced in editions that are now rare and largely absent from circulation outside archives and museum libraries &mdash; alongside sheet music for theaters and musical institutions across the republic, postcards, theatrical literature, and cinema guides. All will be available to browse in the lobby. Before the book rave, visitors are invited to join a talk, From &ldquo;New Order&rdquo; to &ldquo;Orlyk&rdquo;: A Sonic Journey Through the Ukrainian Diaspora and Its Connection to Post-Punk, by contemporary Ukrainian artist Nikolay Karabinovych. About the talk: Artist Nikolay Karabinovych examines the convergence of post-punk history, musical archives, and the Ukrainian diaspora. Taking as a point of departure a 1981 New Order concert video filmed at the Ukrainian National Home in New York, where the performance opened under a portrait of Taras Shevchenko, the talk explores how pop culture and diaspora heritage intersect. Karabinovych presents his research into musical memory, including his collaboration with Manchester&rsquo;s Orlyk folk ensemble, reflecting on how sonic archives and speculative memory foster collective solidarity across generations of displacement.

The underground and daytime rave scene in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities has become a powerful form of cultural resistance during the war, qualities we need in New York right now, too. The Ukrainian Museum’s Reading Rave brings total strangers together around books, offering volumes published in the 1950s and 60s by the renowned Mystetstvo publishing house in Kyiv, illustrated Diaspora editions and artist books by figures such as Jacques Hnizdovsky, and classics of art history in English spanning American Modernism and contemporary art criticism.Many of these Mystetstvo bilingual volumes are now scarce and increasingly difficult to find outside institutional collections, this is a rare chance for New Yorkers to leaf-through a genuine piece of Ukrainian print history. Among its output, Ukrainian Museum Reading Rave guest readers  will find high-quality bilingual art monographs and photo albums documenting Ukrainian art history,  many produced in editions that are now rare and largely absent from circulation outside archives and museum libraries — alongside sheet music for theaters and musical institutions across the republic, postcards, theatrical literature, and cinema guides. All will be available to browse in the lobby. Before the book rave, visitors are invited to join a talk, From “New Order” to “Orlyk”: A Sonic Journey Through the Ukrainian Diaspora and Its Connection to Post-Punk, by contemporary Ukrainian artist Nikolay Karabinovych. About the talk: Artist Nikolay Karabinovych examines the convergence of post-punk history, musical archives, and the Ukrainian diaspora. Taking as a point of departure a 1981 New Order concert video filmed at the Ukrainian National Home in New York, where the performance opened under a portrait of Taras Shevchenko, the talk explores how pop culture and diaspora heritage intersect. Karabinovych presents his research into musical memory, including his collaboration with Manchester’s Orlyk folk ensemble, reflecting on how sonic archives and speculative memory foster collective solidarity across generations of displacement.

Ukrainian Museum

Reading Rave + Artist Talk

222 E 6th St

Artist Talk

$10

Reading Rave Registration

Free

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