NEW YORK – Friday and Saturday, December 6 and 7, 2019, proved to be exceptionally active days at The Ukrainian Museum in New York City. There was the annual Christmas Bazaar, where one could buy books, embroideries and woodcuts, and select from a huge variety of delicious home-made pastries, medivnyky and cookies. Lubow Wolynetz and other baking specialists led a workshop in Ukrainian Christmas Traditions. The exhibit by painter Mikhail Turovsky, “From Darkness to Light,” was available for viewing in the main gallery. “The Impact of Modernity” was up in the second floor gallery, and an exhibit of “Selected Works” by Alexander Archipenko in the entry gallery. The “piece de resistance” were the Koliadnyky from Kryvorivnia, who had last been at the museum in 2015.
“Koliada and Music from the Carpathians” presented the traditional winter ritual of songs that are performed at each household to ensure health, love, wealth and happiness for all members of the household and a bountiful harvest for the homestead in the coming year.