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☆ What are the best galleries in New York? Artists choose their favorites
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Lucy Handley | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

CNBC asked artists to name their top New York galleries, ranging from the well-known to the underground. London-based screen-printing artist Diego Arellano likes Manhattan's Chelsea galleries for their large rooms and high ceilings. Hauser & Wirth has two Chelsea galleries, and both are currently showing work by Hungarian-born U.S. artist Rita Ackermann. The Dia Chelsea gallery in New York City will show an exhibition by British filmmaker Steve McQueen in September. Dia Chelsea | Elizabeth FelicellaBrooklyn resident and artist Zhuo Xiong also favors Chelsea galleries.

Persons: Sean Zanni, Patrick Mcmullan, Diego Arellano, Dia, Arellano, Dia Chelsea, Steve McQueen, Wirth, Rita Ackermann, The Dia, Elizabeth Felicella, Zhuo Xiong, Chelsea —, David Zwirner, Xiong, Wendy Olsoff, Penny Pilkington, Edward Akrout, Akrout, Sasha Maslov, Solomon, Eugene Gologursky, Kate Lewis, Matisse, Hopper, Degas, Henri Matisse, Edgar Degas, Edward Hopper, Lewis, Whitney, Metropolitan Museum of Art Xiong, —, gallerists Akrout, Rob Kim Organizations: Whitney Museum of American Art, Getty, Metropolitan Museum of Art, of Modern Art, Art Newspaper, CNBC, Chelsea, Hauser & Wirth, Hauser, The, Tribeca, New, Arellano, Whitney, MoMA, Guggenheim, Whitney Museum of American, Guggenheim Museum, Solidarity, Museum of Modern Art, Maison, Broadway, Swiss Institute Locations: New York City, York, New York, London, Hungarian, The Dia Chelsea, British, Elizabeth Felicella Brooklyn, Chelsea, Tribeca, Ukraine, Mriya, Meatpacking, Manhattan, Midtown, Inner Mongolia, Chinatown, East, Chinatown , New York

☆ The world's largest airplane was destroyed by Russia — and Ukraine estimates it will cost $500 million to rebuild. Take a look at what's left of the mammoth jet.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The world's largest airplane was destroyed after Russia invaded Ukraine's Hostomel Airport in 2022. Photos show the Antonov An-225 "Mriya" being dismantled, with a few engines being salvaged. Take a look at what the mammoth aircraft looked like before and after the attack at Hostomel. A photo of the Hostomel Airport in August, about 20 miles from the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Take a look at what the An-225 looked like before and after the attack at Hostomel.

Persons: — it's, Igor Lesiv Organizations: Ukraine's Hostomel, Service, Antonov Company, Boeing, NASA's, Shuttle, Paris Air, Getty, Soviet, Antonov Airlines, Hostomel Airport Locations: Russia, Ukraine's, Wall, Silicon, Ukraine, Kyiv, Soviet Union, Ukrainian, Hostomel

☆ Machine gun-wielding judges fight off Russian drone attacks from Kyiv rooftops, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-23 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Thirty-five judges are part of Mriya, a volunteer paramilitary squad, The Wall Street Journal reported. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. He told the Wall Street Journal that the Mriya squad had taken down five Iranian-made Shahed drones. "If I do not do this now," he told The Wall Street Journal, "my children and grandson will not have a peaceful future." Judge Chumak, 48, told The Wall Street Journal that when the drones get close, "they're noisy.

Persons: Yuriy Chumak, Chumak, —, YASUYOSHI CHIBA, Viktor Fomon, Judge Chumak, Vladimir Putin's, Chris Panella Organizations: Street Journal, Service, Street, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Getty, Wall Street, Ukraine's Locations: Mriya, Wall, Silicon, Ukraine, Russia, Kyiv, Soviet, Czechoslovakian, AFP

Ukrainian Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo plane, the world's biggest aircraft, flies during the Independence Day military parade in Kyiv, Ukraine August 24, 2021. Antonov did not respond to requests for comment on the centre and expansion plans in the drone sector. Under Ukroboronprom, Antonov has designed and built drones in the past, including the Horlytsia model, but cargo planes have long been its primary focus. Antonov's expertise in cargo planes could also be applied to long-distance drones, the source added, giving Ukraine's armed forces the capability to strike deeper into Russian territory. LIVE TESTINGKyiv has used aerial drones to attack airfields and Russian troops and aquatic drones against ships and a bridge.

Persons: Gleb Garanich, Antonov, Oleksandr Kamyshin, Ukroboronprom, inefficiently, Tom Balmforth, Tim Hepher, Mike Collett, White, Alexander Smith Organizations: world's, Independence Day, REUTERS, Reuters, Washington , D.C, Vehicle, Russia, Strategic Industries, Thomson Locations: Kyiv, Ukraine, KYIV, Washington ,, Soviet, Russia

☆ Pictures show the afterlife of Ukraine's Mriya-225, the biggest plane in the world, whose ruined parts could yet fly again
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

New images have emerged of Ukraine's legendary Mriya-225 cargo plane 18 months after it was destroyed. Aircraft company Antonov has said parts from the original may be used in a brand new version. According to Popular Mechanics, a sister craft to the Mriya-225 was in construction prior to the full-scale invasion but never finished. Gavrylov said both new parts and parts recovered from the original craft would be added to the uncompleted sister plane. Remaking the plane would involve parts and construction facilities that no longer exist in Ukraine, Popular Mechanics reported.

Persons: Antonov, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Vadim Ghirda, Vasily Koba, Maxym, Eugene Gavrylov, Gavrylov Organizations: . Aircraft, Antonov, Service, Interfax, Getty, Popular Mechanics, CNN Locations: Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Soviet, Kyiv, Interfax Ukraine, Hostomel, Gostomel

☆ Some US volunteers in Ukraine have become embroiled in infighting that has undermined the war effort, with one individual having lied about being a Marine: NYT
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The squabbles have not only threatened the war effort, but have exposed deeply consequential lies. Some volunteers have left the war effort in Ukraine after questions arose about their backgrounds. Foreign Legion volunteers in Ukraine. And while Ukrainian officials estimated that there were possibly 20,000 Legion volunteers, that number was officially much smaller. Lackey told Legion members that he was a Marine and said that he had been an assistant manager at LongHorn Steakhouse.

☆ Ukraine detains officials over destruction of famous plane at start of war
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] A Ukrainian service member walks in a front of the Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo plane, the world's biggest aircraft, destroyed by Russian troops as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, at an airfield in the settlement of Hostomel, in Kyiv region, Ukraine April 3, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb GaranichKYIV, March 10 (Reuters) - Ukraine handed suspicion notices on Friday to three former top managers of aircraft manufacturer Antonov for obstructing the country's military and allowing Russia to destroy the iconic giant "Mriya" cargo plane at the start of the full-scale war. The Ukrainian-made "Mriya", which is Ukrainian for "dream", weighs some 705 tonnes and has a wingspan of 290 feet. The cargo plane was originally built in the late 1980s to transport a Soviet space shuttle. "Our state will definitely build a new plane, because the Dream, like Ukraine, cannot be destroyed," Malyuk said.

Since the early days of the invasion, Mr. Putin has conceded, privately, that the war has not gone as planned. “I think he is sincerely willing” to compromise with Russia, Mr. Putin said of Mr. Zelensky in 2019. To join in Mr. Putin’s war, he has recruited prisoners, trashed the Russian military and competed with it for weapons. To join in Mr. Putin’s war, he has recruited prisoners, trashed the Russian military and competed with it for weapons. “I think this war is Putin’s grave.” Yevgeny Nuzhin, 55, a Russian prisoner of war held by Ukraine, in October.

☆ Ukraine says it's going to rebuild the world's biggest cargo plane, months after Russia destroyed the original model in Kyiv
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Marielle Descalsota | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The manufacturer of the world's largest cargo plane has announced plans to rebuild the aircraft. The plane, which is also known as "Mriya," is said to cost over half a billion dollars to rebuild. Antonov Co., the state-owned Ukrainian manufacturer of the An-225 cargo plane, said in a statement posted on Facebook that design work has begun on a second unit of the aircraft. The An-225, also known as "Mriya," was destroyed by Russian forces in an airfield near Kyiv in February. Gavrylov said the company plans to sell airplane merchandise to obtain additional funds and attract sponsors, per Bild.

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