Adrian Majuru - Familia Minovici. Univers spiritual, 2005, 270 p.
Volumul de fata urmareste sa recastige interesul publicului pentru istoria unei celebre familii bucurestene, ai carei membri s-au distins prin eforturi constante depuse in favoarea modernizarii institutionale a unei tari tinere. Din mostenirea culturala a familiei Minovici
Aura Popescu (concepţie şi coordonare) - Gheorghe Tattarescu şi contemporanii săi (album, ediţie bilingvă română-engleză), 2007, 298 p.
La baza elaborării albumului a stat cercetarea fondului patrimonial al Muzeului Municipiului Bucureşti şi a filialelor sale: Muzeul Gheorghe Tattarescu, Secţiile de Artă şi de Istorie, Muzeul Theodor Aman şi Muzeul Frederic Stork şi Cecilia Cuţescu-Stork. Albumul
Dan Dinescu (fotografii), Andrei Pippidi (text) - Farmecul discret al Bucureştilor/ The Discreet Charm of Bucharest (ediţie bilingvă română-engleză), 2008, 250 p.
„(. . . ) talentul domnului Dinescu este de cel mai mare folos pentru toţi, nu numai pentru istoricii arhitecturii. Pentru fiecare generaţie măcar, astfel de cărţi trebuie să se facă – scrie Andrei Pippidi în prefaţa albumului. Cele peste 100 de imagini realizate
*** - Visteriile cetăţii. 18 poeţi din Sibiu / Treasury of the City. 18 poets of Sibiu; volum îngrijit de Liliana Ursu şi Ioan Radu Văcărescu, 2008, 340 p.
18 poeţi contemporani îşi deschid arhivele sentimentale legate de Sibiu. Voci diferite, generaţii diferite re-inventează tainele acestui topos liric, oferindu-ne un Sibiu cultural şi livresc dar şi romantic şi modern şi boem şi exotic, dar mai ales intens fantastic.
Friends with Children
Geology Museum, Kiseleff Park, Cismigiu Gardens. Since the park is always a handy alternative, but the least spectacular one, we suggest a visit to the Antipa museum, an eternal museum. We know that you notice at once those details that spoil all the charm, such as the
The Skeptical Friend
How can you refute the arguments of the visiting friend who thinks that Bucharest is a city like any other and that besides the classical sightseeing there is nothing much to see? First you should draw up a list with all the things that impressed you in the capital: pubs,
The Friend From The Provinces
Carturesti bookstore, National Museum of Contemporary Art. Your cousin from Timisoara is coming to the city. People from Banat and those from Bucharest don’t seem to see eye to eye, that is a known fact, but your duty is to make him feel at home. For him, home means very
Miniatures From Bucharest
Statuary art gallery in open airIn Bucharest, there are lots of boulevards, streets, buildings that have become so familiar to us that we almost no longer see their beauty, originality, uniqueness. . . It is like being in the middle of an enchanting park that you admire,
Bucharest Meet Amsterdam
Life is nothing but a perpetual interrogation mark placed above that strange and intriguing image of our very own childhood… and where does it even start to provoke our conscience? Remember that grumpy and oversized street, your everyday neighbors that couldn't restrain
From Vienna For Bucharest
A native of Constanta born under the sign of Cancer, therefore dependent on the sea, the sun, the sand and the seagulls, a couple of months ago I moved to Vienna (no sight of the sea), after having spent four years in Bucharest (no sight of the sea) during my years of college
Why We Like Bucharest – Part III
There are some invisible frontiers between different spaces in this capital, which you cannot see, but sometimes there comes somebody to shout at you and to point at them with his finger. At regular intervals, whole streets of the city are paralyzed by shooting sessions
Sunday Best
Cismigiu Gardens Every time I visit this place, I feel the same. Maybe it’s because the elegant flower beds, the winding paths and the chatter of happy kids. Or maybe it’s the young lovers who paddle rowing boats, the skeletal old ladies who gossip on benches of battered