Every year, fragments of an entire civilisation disappear without record. These essays and articles explore the stories, people, and ideas behind this vanishing history: who made these works of art, why they matter, and what it means to lose them.
Soviet decorative art treated the interior as a single artwork. This piece traces how mosaics, stained glass, ceramics, metalwork, and sgraffito were integrated into Soviet, brutalist, and modernist architecture across the USSR through the principle of synthesis.
The archive behind the archive: the projects, books, and communities that made Concrete Wastelands possible.
From a Minsk stairwell to Pridnestrovian television: the story of learning to see socialist-era art.
