Category: Art and Culture

China’s art scene is a vibrant tapestry of tradition, innovation, and global dialogue, with its top galleries and museums serving as dynamic hubs for contemporary expression and cultural preservation. From Beijing’s iconic National Art Museum to Shanghai’s experimental UCCA Center, these institutions currently host groundbreaking exhibitions that bridge historical craftsmanship with cutting-edge digital art, ecological […]

“Bullet” is a dark electronic-pop collaboration released on October 15, 2021, merging MARUV’s seductive electro-pop with The Hatters’ gritty gypsy-folk-rock edge. The track features hypnotic rhythms and a haunting lyrics.

Russian directors Nikita Vysotsky and Ilya Lebedev take us to the summer of 1944, to the dense forests of western Belarus, where the Eastern Front is becoming a maze of fragile loyalties and hidden dangers. The film explores a territory recently liberated from Nazi occupation—a volatile border region where the lines between friend and foe […]

Discover the story behind «Diko Tusim» («Partying Wildly»), the groundbreaking 2020 collaboration that brought together internet sensation Danya Milokhin and Russian pop icon Nikolai Baskov. This review delves into why the track became a viral sensation and a cultural milestone in Russian music.

Korean is a fascinating language with a rich linguistic heritage that has evolved over more than a millennium. Belonging to the Koreanic language family, Korean is primarily spoken by approximately 77 million people worldwide, making it one of the world’s major languages. The language has a unique grammatical structure that differs significantly from Indo-European languages, […]

The second book in the joint series by Myth (МИФ) and the online lecture series “Stradarium,” authored by art critic and historian Kirill Svetlyakov, explores Soviet and post-Soviet painting, cinema, and architecture. The book delves into the consciousness and unconsciousness of the 20th-century human being, intertwining art, psychology, and culture to capture the spirit of […]

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian rock music entered a transformative period that saw both continuity with Soviet-era traditions and bold experimentation with Western influences. Many Soviet rock bands, such as DDT, Nautilus Pompilius, and Mashina Vremeni, remained popular, providing a bridge between the underground rock movement of the 1980s and […]

AY YOLA’s latest single “Ural Vasyaty” represents a masterful continuation of the Bashkir trio’s mission to bridge ancient storytelling with contemporary electronic production.

“Gagarin” is a digital single released by singer Mia Boyka on June 30, 2022. The song falls into the pop-dance style, very dynamic and rhythmic, with a general state of exuberance. The theme is love and the message is of a love that goes beyond terrestrial borders and reaches the Milky Way. Two people who […]

In “Liebst mich”, German singer LINA blends irony, flirtation, and vulnerability into a modern pop track that explores obsessive affection with playful sarcasm. The song opens with a humorous image of a double-paid mailbox just to store anonymous love letters, clearly hinting that the sender is the narrator’s admirer. Through a catchy chorus filled with […]