Chewbacca masks, upside-down drums, headache-y lights: Is it Eurovision time already?
The country’s written and unwritten rules of governance hold back the tide of modernization. From openDemocracy.
Recent attempts to censor the arts have an unmistakably anti-Western tinge.

A ground-breaking Sotheby’s exhibition aimed to open new markets for Central Asian and Caucasus artists, but Uzbekistan’s art scene may not be ready to take the plunge.

Plus, a museum dedicated to Jewish life in Warsaw unveils a celestial roof and Uzbeks choke on coal while shipping their gas abroad.

A few scattershot efforts to revive Tajikistan’s moribund arts scene are no match for the poverty and isolation that plague it.