In an interview with Monopol, Kiev Biennale curator David Elliott asserts he has not experienced corruption or interference while working in politically unstable Ukraine.

Opera News, one of the leading classical music magazines in the country, said it would stop reviewing the Metropolitan Opera, resulting from the Met’s dissatisfaction over negative critiques.

Tess Thackara

Bio

Tess Thackara is a writer, editor, non-profit worker, producer, and lover of the arts. A UK native, Tess now lives and works in San Francisco. She is a senior editor for Art Practical, a publication to which she regularly contributes writing. She also contributes to BOMB Magazine, among other publications, and recently produced a short film about the artists Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang, One Plastic Beach. She holds a BA in English Literature from Trinity College, Dublin and contributed research to Dave Eggers’s creative nonfiction work, Zeitoun.