Welcome to Maskačka: Stig Stasig's Images of Latvia's Troubled '90s
In 1991, Danish photographer Stig Stasig moved to Riga, capital of newly free Latvia. His photos of inner-city life capture a unique moment in its historyContinue Reading →
Fiction: Jaroslavas Melnikas – "The Grand Piano Room"
"What was strange was not the fact that the piano room had disappeared, but that it had ever actually existed"Continue Reading →
Siluett: the Estonian Fashion Magazine that Took the USSR by Storm
Launched in 1958 by the Tallinn Fashion House, Siluett was arguably the one truly agenda-setting fashion magazine the Soviet Union produced.Continue Reading →
Lithuania's Ancient Heartland: Visiting the Grand Duchy's Abandoned Capital
Once the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Kernavė was abandoned in the 14th century. Today, it hosts medieval festivals and pagan ritualsContinue Reading →
A Dream in the Latvian Countryside: Remaking the National Painter's House
In 1998, Dutch museologist Margriet Lestraden bought the remote birth house of "the father of Latvian art", a man she then knew nothing about.Continue Reading →