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Happy 150th Anniversary to our neighbor here on Museum Mile, The Metropolitan Museum of Art! Did you know that The Ukrainian Institute of America was once owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art? The building that is home to the

The Ukrainian Institute of America extends its best wishes for a blessed Easter. Wishing you and your loved ones, above all, health – and a peaceful and joyous holiday. Christ is Risen!

The Ukrainian Institute of America joins the #LightBlue initiative to honor essential workers on the frontlines of COVID-19.

Take a journey back in time to 1960 to the DZUS® factory located in West Islip, NY and see the founder of the Ukrainian Institute of America, William Dzus, as inventor and entrepreneur.

Two years ago, Art at the Institute opened its spring season with an exhibition of evocative landscape paintings, titled Silence, by Kyiv-based contemporary artist Oleksiy Lytvynenko. We invite you to travel back in time and revisit this exhibition.

Featuring the legendary ballerina and choreographer Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky and the Syzokryli Dance Ensemble of New York, this comedy-docu-drama is relevant to anyone trying to balance ties to one’s heritage and culture in a modern world.

The Ukrainian painter Vasyl Diadyniuk does not possess much of a household name except in the more specialized of art historical circles. However, his paintings of luminaries from the annals of Ukrainian history — from the Princely era of Kyivan Rus’, the Principality of Galicia-Volhynia, to the Cossacks and the Hetman state, for example — ubiquitously appear in widely distributed illustrations, poster designs, book publishing, and even postcards.