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A guide to Bukhara, Uzbekistan, from historic mosques and Sufi shrines to hotels, restaurants, artisan workshops and the city’s new biennial.
News Uzbekistan » Bukhara » Places: How This Central Asian City Became an Art and Fashion Hotspot
About a year ago, I landed in Seoul for Frieze Week and immediately rushed to a dinner announcing the Bukhara Biennial, a new contemporary art and culture festival in Uzbekistan that was slated to ...
News Uzbekistan » Bukhara » Places: Uzbekistan Gets a New Biennial in 2025, and It’s Got Some Big Stars on Board
The Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation has announced that the inaugural Bukhara Biennial will debut in the ancient Uzbekistan city on September 5, 2025. This first edition, titled ...
News Uzbekistan » Bukhara » Places: Bukhara Unveiled: Drone Footage of Uzbekistan’s Silk Road
Glide over Bukhara, Uzbekistan’s ancient oasis city, where centuries-old minarets, madrassas, and bazaars echo the grandeur of the Silk Road—captured in stunning drone footage that reveals the city’s ...
News Uzbekistan » Bukhara » Places: Will Uzbekistan’s Big Bet on Culture Pay Off? Inside Its Bold Overhaul
While the phrase “explore and discover” is used liberally across the art world, the unveiling of a slew of new art venues and events in Uzbekistan might be the closest the words come to not being ...
News Uzbekistan » Bukhara » Places: Finding This Party Was Half the Fun
At a fashion store hidden within Uzbekistan’s oldest market, artists gathered to celebrate the country’s inaugural Bukhara Biennial. By Gisela Williams This fall, the ancient Central Asian city of ...
News Uzbekistan » Bukhara » Places: Uzbekistan's offbeat landscapes heal the soul
Aydarkul is a vast, man-made lake in the middle of the Kyzyl Kum desert and has become a thriving, serene ecosystem ...
News Uzbekistan » Bukhara » Places: UNESCO says Uzbekistan broke promises over Bukhara development
UNESCO says that Uzbekistan’s government has broken its promise to refrain from doing demolition and building work near historic zones in the city of Bukhara pending joint agreement on a master plan.
News Uzbekistan » Bukhara » Places: Uzbekistan: Kitschy Bukhara development proceeds amid growing objections
On the afternoon of February 26, demolition crews began work on dismantling a 23,000-seater soccer stadium near the historic heart of Bukhara. The razing of this building is only the start. Under a ...