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Johannes Nathan

Johannes Nathan is Co-Founder and President of the Ukraine Art Aid Center, an initiative substantially funded by Germany's Foreign Office to support Ukrainian museums, archives, libraries, theatres, monuments, and sites during Russia’s full-scale invasion. He is an art historian and art dealer who previously served as the founding chair of the International Art Market Studies Association.

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The international community should provide more support for Ukraine's cultural sector

by Johannes Nathan
As a rule, Ukraine's cultural sector makes the headlines only when sites of exceptional significance are damaged or destroyed. This was the case not so long ago, when a Russian drone hit the cathedral of Kyiv's Pechersk Lavra. The attack was internationally condemned, and similar condemnations followed earlier attacks, such as the destruction of the Hryhorii Skovoroda Museum near Kharkiv in 2022 or the attack on Odesa Cathedral in 2023. Worldwide outrage over such crimes rarely lasts long, howe