In his influential book Democratic Ideals and Reality Halford John Mackinder summarises his Heartland Theory with the following statement: “Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the ...

It was 1983, and East German artist Gabriele Stötzer was being watched. She had already spent a year in prison, and the Stasi, the East German secret police, shuttered her underground gallery. But ...

The freezing half-mile walk from my hotel to the Walker Art Center on an early December morning here was a bit dreary and difficult, given that the park between me and the museum was basically one ...

The birdcage was perfected in communist Hungary. In 1972, István Haraszty outfitted a parakeet dwelling with a sophisticated surveillance system that opened the door when the inhabitant was idle and ...

An international survey of more than 200 cities identifies Zurich as the best place in the world to live. The top of the list is dominated by cities in Europe, but none of the cities of the former ...

Karol Radziszewski began his art publication DIK Fagazine in 2005, and has since delved into the little-known queer archives of former Soviet Union countries. DIK Fagazine gradually evolved from a ...

The Vancouver Art Gallery will present Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s, a major survey that brings together over 100 artists from six Central Eastern European ...

‘Sleeping districts’ of Moscow, Plattenbauten of East Berlin, modernist estates of Warsaw, Kyiv`s Brezhnevki: although these are home to the vast majority of city dwellers, post-war suburbs of central ...

While President Nixon prepared for his swing through the capitals of Western Europe, Eastern Europe last week marked a melancholy milestone. Six months have passed since Warsaw Pact tanks rumbled into ...