Installation view of Slavs and Tatars: Hang Don't Cut at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles (all photos AX Mina/Hyperallergic) LOS ANGELES — There’s a meditative quality to Slavs and Tatars: Hang Don ...

Like many important discoveries, it happened by accident. Alena Slamova, a Czech graduate student in archaeology, was routinely washing some animal bones that had been recovered from a dig in an early ...

In major museums, as well as at club nights and its own bar, the collective Slavs and Tatars casts a humorous eye over the region between the former Berlin Wall and the Great Wall of China. By ...

There were 19th Century Slav intellectuals who proudly claimed “the Slav problem” was the most important mankind faced. As the crisis in Bosnia attests, it still has not been solved. What was–what ...

Founded in 2006 by a motley crew of assertively intellectual, generally international, and multilingual artists, the razor-sharp, intimidatingly clever collective Slavs and Tatars is known for layered ...

With its roots planted firmly in Eastern European folk traditions, the Yale Slavic Chorus may seem an unlikely candidate as a feminist organization on campus. But behind the full skirts and peasant ...

Two women outside a house with blank walls, dressed head to toe in billowing black, stare enviously at a prison. "Sister, look how lucky they are: they have windows!"; a Muslim man drags a woman off ...

Who randomly creaks open the door and what makes the things that go bump in the night? Here’s the Slavic version. Ancient Slavs believed that behind diseases, failures, and natural disasters there ...