American actor Tom Cruise received an Honorary Oscar at the 2025 Governors Awards in Los Angeles.
Two Ukrainian books have been included in the shortlist of the 2025 Witold Pilecki International Book Award, one of Europe’s leading prizes recognising works on totalitarianism, political violence and human rights violations in Central and Eastern Europe.
Paul McCartney has released his first new recording in five years — an almost completely silent track created as a gesture of protest against the use of artists’ work by artificial intelligence without their permission.
At the closing of the 26th One World film festival in Bratislava, organizers screened what they described as one of the strongest documentaries of the program, My Dear Theo by Ukrainian director Alisa Kovalenko.
The Lviv choir “Homin” has announced that it will not participate in the concert program “Yedynyi Kvartal,” scheduled for December 6–7 in Kyiv.
Italy has opened a criminal inquiry into foreign nationals — potentially including its own citizens — suspected of involvement in the deliberate killing of civilians during the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s.
After a five-year pause, the Kazimir Malevich Art Prize — a key award fostering dialogue between Ukrainian and Polish contemporary art — has been presented again in Kyiv.
Two organ pieces recently confirmed as early compositions by a young Johann Sebastian Bach were presented to the public for the first time in Leipzig. The works, Chaconne in D minor (BWV 1178) and Chaconne in G minor (BWV 1179), were performed on 17 Novem
Poet, translator, and publisher Oleh Zhupansky has received the 2025 Kochur Prize, as reported by the State Agency of Ukraine for Arts and Arts Education. He was honored for his Ukrainian translation of “Tears of the Homeland” by Andreas Gryphius, one of