The project "Focus Kazakhstan" was meant to elevate the country's art, but mismanagement has resulted in allegedly damaged work and lack of payment. Performance view from the opening of "Bread & Roses ...

For more than three decades, collecting art in Kazakhstan has meant one thing: big business. In the thirty-three years since the country gained independence from the Soviet Union, the contemporary art ...

Imperious khans and assorted dignitaries gaze into the distance. Meanwhile, fierce battles are raging all around. These are scenes from artworks at a recently opened exhibition in Kazakhstan, ...

What was supposed to be a bright start for Kazakhstan at the Venice Biennale has collapsed into a state of disappointment and confusion, as the nation has canceled plans for its first-ever Biennale ...

According to the artists, for publicly undisclosed reasons, it never officially opened in January 2025 in Almaty. It may have been due to their public pro-Uyghur stance. As the artists write in their ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Embassy of Kazakhstan this week launched the 2010 Washington Kazakhstan Festival celebrating and sharing Kazakh culture with the American public through performances ...

Kazakhstan's newly opened Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture offers a guide to decolonization, and it goes something like this: Remember, rethink, advance, dance. These steps were put into ...

Two wealthy entrepreneurs are opening private art institutions in Kazakhstan this year as the country, which has long been under authoritarian rule, tries to strike a delicate balance between its ...

Disunity threatens to tear the country apart. Bad guys with guns mar the glittering streets of Astana. Kazakhstan needs a hero -- and even authoritarian President Nursultan Nazarbaev, who holds ...

When an Almaty business owner razed the building of a traditional Thai restaurant to build a new establishment, the incident didn’t go unnoticed by Kazakhstan’s citizenry. Built in the early 2000s in ...