'I Am Not Running From My Home': Pavlo Makov, the Artist Representing Ukraine in the Venice Biennale, on Selling Art to Help Arm the Front Lines

Pavlo Makov, the artist representing Ukraine at the country’s Venice Biennale pavilion this spring, was supposed to go to a shooting range on Friday with his friend who is a trained soldier.
The 63-year-old conceptual artist had already undergone obligatory military training during the Soviet era, but he felt it was time to “refresh a little bit, just in case.”

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