By Tamar Jacoby
It was a perfect spring Sunday in Kyiv and the city’s cafés were filled with people laughing in the sunlight.
Inside the Pinchuk Art Centre, the mood was different — quiet, focused, somber — but it too was filling with visitors eager to see an exhibition of works by young Ukrainian conceptual artists.
Their pieces were mostly responses to the war, many steeped in pain and loss.
Yet of all the places, people could be spending a spring Sunday in a country at war, these visitors were choosing a museum.
But why?
