This platform is for writers, artists, arts professionals, scientists, readers, and everyone interested in looking a bit beyond the surface.
It is divided into three sections:
Hot Coffees — It all begins with a good conversation over a coffee or tea. You have just published a book or have an exhibition, and you want to share your deeper story. Sometimes you need someone to ask you these questions. This platform is all about longer and thoughtful exchanges from across the fields. By November 2025, respondents came from the U.S., Georgia, Switzerland, Italy, South Africa, the Czech Republic, Japan, China, Germany, Ukraine, Italy, France, Brazil, Portugal, Mexico, and Colombia.
From the East and West of Tbilisi - Aims to provide a cultural map of the region surrounding Georgia, creating a resource and archive of the diverse and yet powerful cultural currents.
Espresso Reviews - commissioned exhibition reviews from around the world by highly regarded art writers such as Michela Ceruti, William Corwin, Jonathan Goodman, Mellisa Stern, Yasmeen Abdallah, and others.
What unifies these parts is support for independent journalism, curiosity for contemporary visions, and strong individual voices. Success for a cultural publication can be defined in multiple ways, including financial viability, critical acclaim, and — crucially — its cultural impact. Publications with impact often combine deep specialization with high-quality, focused content and a commitment to their niche audience. That’s what we stand for.
Founder
Nina Chkareuli is a Georgian-born and New York-based independent curator, writer, and researcher. She holds undergraduate degrees in International Relations and Gender Studies from Tbilisi State University and Mount Holyoke College, and a graduate degree in Museum Studies from the City University of New York. Chkareuli-Mdivani's book, King is Female, published in October 2018 in Berlin by Wienand Verlag explores the lives of three Georgian women artists and is the first publication to investigate questions of the feminine identity in the context of the Eastern European historical, social, and cultural transformation of the last twenty years. Since 2017 Chkareuli-Mdivani has regularly contributed reviews, essays, and interviews to Artforum,Berlin Art Link, e-flux, East European Film Bulletin, Flash Art Magazine, Hot Coffee Conversations, Hyperallergic, Indigo Magazine Tbilisi, JANE Magazine Australia, Impulse Magazine, Le Quotidien de l'Art, post.MoMA, NERO Editions Italy, Overstandard, Spaghetti Boost, The Art Newspaper, The Brooklyn Rail, White Hot Magazine, and others.
She has curated over ten exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles (U.S.), Iserlohn and Berlin (Germany), Daugavpils (Latvia), and Tbilisi (Georgia). Her research involves the intersection of art history, museum, and decolonization studies, focusing on totalitarian art and trauma theory; she has extensively written and lectured on the erasure of culture and recontextualization of Soviet art within Eastern European and Western contexts.
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