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16 Sep 2024

CANTEMIR Programme // Visiting Recent History

Visiting Recent History, a project organized by MATCA artspace from Cluj-Napoca (RO), aims to present a collective exhibition to be held at ȚOL Artist Run Space and a public discussion at Zpațiu (Casa Zemstvei) in Chișinău. The project connects countries that share

19 Feb 2019

Constantin Brâncuși, Celebrated by the Romanian Cultural Institute throughout 2019

On 19 February, his birthday, the Romanian Cultural Institute pays homage to legendary sculptor Constantin Brâncuși. Since 2015, when this date was declared Constantin Brâncuși Day, it has been a National Holiday in Romania. The Romanian Cultural Institute

Lettre Internationale nr. 104 / winter 2017-2018

To our readers In Tolstoy’s War and Peace, there is a marginal, but highly amusing, character, the diplomat Bilibin. He is admired for his wit and feared for his sarcasm. He gives prince Andrew a mischievous account of the 1807 campaign, marked by the battles

31 Mar 2011 - 4 Dec 2011

“When we were the Byzantium”

The Romanian Cultural Institute will organize in the following period, March-December 2011, a series of musical encounters gathered underneath the banner When we were the Byzantium, with the announced participation of various artists coming from abroad alongside very talented

14 Nov 2011 - 15 Nov 2011

Ideological Storms: Intellectuals and the Totalitarian Temptation

The Romanian Cultural Institute in cooperation with the Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies (under the directorship of Professor Vladimir Tismaneanu) at the University of Maryland (College Park), the Cold War International History Project (Woodrow Wilson International

18 Mar 2011 - 21 Mar 2011

Romania at Salon du Livre 2011

Between the 18th and the 21st of March 2011, more than twenty Romanian publishers will be present at the 12th edition of Salon du Livre / The Paris Book Fair. This year, the Romanian stand, organised by The Romanian Cultural Institute will also include a commercial space,

Lettre Internationale - nr. 103 / toamna 2017

To our readers This year marks a century from the Great October Revolution, a controversial event, which, anyway, “shook up the world” and traced new paths in history. In the past, the event was duly celebrated on each anniversary. In the fifties, every November

Brâncuşi Y Su Influencia En La Escultura Del Siglo XX

El escultor más importante de la primera mitad delsiglo XX fue sin duda alguna Constantin Brancusi(1876 – 1957), un rumano… (Howard Hibbard, Obras maestras de la escultura – la plástica europea y americana de la Edad Media hasta el presente, Nueva York, 1977) Preámbulo 

The Tenderness And Betrayal Of Magdalene

I couldn't say I was properly introduced to Magdalene, the wording would be equally pretentious and inexact; as a matter of fact, she actually rushed into my studio… She was tired, exhausted, shabby, as if she had come out of the hundred year war. I had worked all

A Very Lucky Man

My friend Mr. Manolache Cuvidi is a well-known character in our society; he is a man of substance, his rather comfortable wealth has been earned through honest work; he's an intelligent and earnest fellow, an ideal husband and an ideal father of a family. Given so many

The New Generation Of Choreographers

Origins. In Experimentalism in Romanian Choreographic Art between the 60's and the 90's, published in 1997, Liana Tugearu made the following remarks: After a very short period of storing and decanting, a few young dancers broke away from the established companies

The Dialectics Of National Self-Criticism

Some time in the autumn of 1994, Sorin Alexandrescu asked in an interview in 22 magazine why, in the canonical battle between the various radical-democrat and nationalist structures of the opposition (and of the government), more attention is not paid to the real traditions