IAKOB NIKOLADZE: GEORGIA’S SCULPTURAL PIONEER

Iakob Nikoladze Working on Shota Rustaveli Bust

Greek women and children harvesting tea in Chakvi Georgia between 1905 and 1915

History

Georgia’s Lost Tea Empire

How tea grew from an experiment in western Georgia into a vast Soviet industry, and what remained after its collapse.

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Literature & Poetry

Galaktioni: The King of Poets

“I am king and poet, and I die with song. Few figures in Georgian culture occupy a place as singular as Galaktion Tabidze. To call him merely a poet would...

Celebration in Bolnisi Photo Credit Georgian National Museum

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Literature & Poetry

A Train Without Tracks: Niko Pirosmani, Primitivism, and Georgian Modernity

Niko Pirosmani is usually placed under the heading of naive art. This essay looks instead...

Art

Revisiting the Legacy of Gigo Gabashvili – A Georgian Visionary

Gigo Gabashvili, born Giorgi Ivanovich Gabashvili, stands as a monumental figure in the evolution of Georgian art, not merely by...

Music

Mravalzhamieri

Some songs are made to perform. Others are born for people. Mravalzhamieri belongs to the latter kind.

Art

Sergo Kobuladze

On a cold February morning in 1909, in the military town of Akhaltsikhe, a child was born who would reshape...

IAKOB NIKOLADZE: GEORGIA’S SCULPTURAL PIONEER

Revisiting the Legacy of Gigo Gabashvili – A Georgian Visionary

Sergo Kobuladze

Mravalzhamieri

Naduri Georgia’s Work Songs

Georgian Polyphony: The Ancient Art of Many Voices

IAKOB NIKOLADZE: GEORGIA’S SCULPTURAL PIONEER

Georgia’s Lost Tea Empire

CURATOR'S PICK

Galaktioni: The King of Poets

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A Train Without Tracks: Niko Pirosmani, Primitivism, and Georgian Modernity

Revisiting the Legacy of Gigo Gabashvili – A Georgian Visionary

Mravalzhamieri

Sergo Kobuladze