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Noaptea Institutelor Culturale 2010

Noaptea Institutelor Culturale, unul din cele mai populare evenimente culturale bucureştene, a ajuns pe 25 iunie 2010 la cea de-a patra ediţie. Din seara zilei de 25 până în dimineaţa zilei de 26 iunie, s-au desfăşurat în jur de 70 de evenimente în 11 locuri din

REEDITARE / Narcis Dorin Ion - Reşedinţe şi familii aristocrate din România, 334 p.

Cuvânt înainte de Constantin Bălăceanu-Stolnici. Reşedinţe şi familii aristocrate din România prezintă cele mai importante, din punct de vedere arhitectonic şi istoric, situri aristocrate şi expune succint biografiile aristocraţilor ce au stăpânit domeniile

REEDITARE / Narcis Dorin Ion - Residences and Families of the Nobility in Romania, 334 p.

Versiune în limba engleză. Traducere în limba engleză: Mihnea Gafiţa Cuvânt înainte de Constantin Bălăceanu-Stolnici. Reşedinţe şi familii aristocrate din România prezintă cele mai importante, din punct de vedere arhitectonic şi istoric, situri aristocrate

Maria Muscalu Albani (concepţie şi coordonare) - Corneliu Baba. (album, ediţie bilingvă română-engleză), 2008, 112 p.

Albumul Corneliu Baba, cu o introducere de Andrei Pleşu, prezintă 77 de lucrări care se găsesc astăzi în Muzeul Naţional de Artă a României, Muzeul din Timişoara şi Muzeul Municipiului Bucureşti. Imaginile sunt însoţite de texte aparţinând artistului însuşi:

Bucharest – Fragments In A Box

At Atelier 35 Gallery, Bucharest, 4-18 July 2008 The history of the peep boxThe increasing need for education, information and images in the course of social upheaval and trends of enlightenment in the 18th century made the peep box (German: Guckkasten) popular. Through

How I First Met Brâncuşi

excerpts We want to see Brâncuşi. Do you know him? asked Florica. We're old friends. But he is ill, it's not easy to get an appointment. Anyway, let's try. On the same day, October the 13th, 1956, we met Colomba again at 'Les deux magots', among

The Matter Of Movement

Representing dance and dancers is not infrequent in Romanian art. From the famous Hora by Tattarescu, at the end of the 19th century, to the series of Căluşarii of Magdalena Rădulescu by the middle of the 20th century, various painters aimed at getting something from

Non-Chronological Travel Notes (September 1979 - March 1980)

excerpts30th September When I get on the tram, in Zurich, I cross myself. To whom? Not to the tram, of course, but to the Power that gave some people (engineers, technicians, workers) the ability to create such public means of transportation: and to others (the passengers)

Kollectian

Just think that I paid it once, and it pays me off a lifetime instead. * Zambaccian on a canvas by Pallady Having great collectors represents as big a chance for a culture as having great artists. Flourishing arts are hardly imaginable when wealthy art-lovers are missing,

Georges De Bellio, A Romanian Physician, Admirer And Supporter Of Impressionist Painters

Before becoming fascinated with Impressionist painting, de Bellio already had a remarkable art collection, made of various objects purchased in auctions at Hotel Drouot or from Parisian antiquaries: furniture, old Dutch lamps, Italian drawings from the 17th century, sculptures

Georges De Bellio, Friend Of The Impressionists

In 1878, Theodore Duret quoted the names of several amateurs (rather few, actually) in order to prove a fact that might have seemed a paradox at the time, namely that people with a certain reputation appreciated artists like Claude Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley and Berthe

Woolen Gardens

European travelers such as Antonio Maria del Chiaro were struck long time ago by the uncommon abundance of woolen carpets in each Romanian home, be it aristocratic, bourgeois or peasant. Carpets were laid mainly onto the walls of the rooms, but they also covered the beds,