Bonfire Lit on Steps of Ukrainian Museum as Violent Protests Rock Capital

THE ART NEWSPAPER
By Sophia Kishkovsky

Protesters clashed with police in the streets of Kiev this week.

UKRAINE---The National Art Museum of Ukraine has found itself on the frontline of the street battles that have broken out in Kiev in an escalating political standoff between the pro-Russian government and protestors. As events escalated this weekend, the museum’s director Maria Zadorozhna and other management issued an appeal to both government officials and opposition leaders, asking them to “remember their responsibility in preserving the cultural heritage of the state [and] refrain from deliberate or accidental actions that may damage the museum and the surrounding territory”. [link]