Fringe

21 Aug 2007

Proiect susţinut prin Programul Cantemir, remarcat în The New York Times

Teatrul Luni la cel mai important festival de gen din Statele Unite Un spectacol de teatru românesc contemporan este elogiat în The New York Times. Într-un articol publicat în prestigiosul cotidian american pe 18 august 2007, piesa „Bucharest calling, de Peca Ştefan,

8 Jun 2007

Proiecte finanţate de Institutul Cultural Român în cadrul Programului Cantemir - 2007

Opt proiecte culturale adresate mediului internaţional vor beneficia de finanţare din partea Institutului Cultural Român în cadrul Programului Cantemir. Aflat la a doua ediţie, Programul Cantemir – unul dintre cele mai ample programe de finanţare de acest tip din

Ana Mărgineanu, la Festivalul „CrossCurrents” din Washington

Regizoarea Ana Mărgineanu reprezintă România, cu sprijinul Institutului Cultural Român din New York, la Festivalul „CrossCurrents” din Washington, D. C. (5-11 mai), într-un proiect derulat sub egida cluster-ului EUNIC din capitala americană și realizat în

Romanian Ornamental Wall Cloths With Zoomorphic And Avimorphic Motifs

from the collection of the Folk Art Museum in Tulcea see Gallery 1. General considerations In the context of the Romanian traditional fabrics ‘stergarele’ (cloths) represent a category with multiple functions: pieces for decorating or adorning the house , pieces

Bucharest – Little Summit In Paris

I hadn't wanted to leave Bucharest during the NATO summit (2-4 April, 2008). Why should I have left? I'd have left after and not before it. To me Bucharest seems to be now exactly how it should be all the time. Less traffic in the center, more traffic on the outskirts

Nature And Architecture: The Parks And Gardens Of The Capital

Cismigiu gardens, Icoanei park, Kiseleff park (see also The green within in Gallery). Many of Bucharest’s gardens and parks, which no longer exist because of extensive urban reorganising, were shaped as the aristocracy tastefully redesigned the open space around their

The Past: Plus Quam Perfectum

Bucharest is a city in search of identity. Its precise moment of birth is unknown, for the Cetatea Dîmboviţei of the 14th and 15th centuries only played host to its rulers when they occasionally came to ward off threats from south of the Danube or Hungarian attacks form

La Locura

Como a menudo suele pasar con las obras geniales que van revistiendo sombras y penumbras para luego por su interpretación acabar por adquirir dimensiones colosales y planos infinitos, El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha[1],por Cervantes, es objeto de numerosos

The New Man

An Individual without Individualism To a new society – a new man. Naturally, one would not fancy a communist world inhabited by middle-class people in disguise. That was the most delicate problem raised by transformist mythology. One could not rebuild the economy and

The End Of The World. History Without an End

The 1900 Crisis The Break By 1900, no more bets. Pessimism. Denial of progress, return of the cyclic history. Social conflicts. Revolutions. Decline of the West and the yellow peril. Anti-utopia. The Great War. Abstract art. Earthquakes. Halley's comet. The end of the

The Dialectic Of Dialectic

A Message to the International Surrealist Movement  We address ourselves to our surrealist friends scattered all over the world and, as in great shipwrecks, we indicate to them our exact location, at latitude 44° 5' North and longitude 26° East. The inexhaustible

The 20th Century - The Century Of Avant-Garde

The year 1900. Europe's countries are divided on the question: does the 20th century begin in 1900 or in 1901? Some opt for 1900, by virtue of the change in the figure of the hundreds. Others are partisans of 1901, for reasons of more sophisticated arithmetic. Particular