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 ...

Two Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize later, it’s hard to believe that when he had written the first 50 pages of “Angels in America,” Tony Kushner felt “it was a piece of dreck, and I was blowing it.” ...

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 ...

Biennials aren’t usually a barrel of laughs. But the collective Slavs and Tatars conscripted several stand-up comedians to participate in the 33rd edition of the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts.

We don’t know for sure, but they thought they’d have to cross a mystical ‘stinking river,’ and wait for reincarnation in a parallel world. What happens when a man dies? The search for the afterlife ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...