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
European Comics Festival, second edition
Strip drawings returned to Bucharest to turn the city, for two and a half weeks, in the unofficial capital of comics. European Comics Festival, at its second edition held from 3 to 20 November 2011 at Foto Anexa – gallery of the National Museum of Contemporary Art (62-68
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SUMMARYBukovina - HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL PROCESSESMarin Gherman,The Problem of Solutions: Suggestions and Failures. PressMonitoring (June 1 - August 15, 2015)Marian Olaru, Aspects Concerning the History of Bukovinaduring the WW1Aurelian Lavric, The Emerging Problem of
The History Of Nothing: Contemporary Architecture And Public Space In Romania
Richard Rogers Partnership proposal, 1996People's House (Parliament) After 1989: Methods of researching the built environmentResearching Communist architecture is a tricky endeavor in contemporary Romania, where some major actors of that era are still alive, some even
Playing With The Past
A Word with Two Meanings We invent words, then let ourselves be subjugated by them. There would be no knowledge without words, but it is words again that grow into independent entities, obstacles that come between us and the real world. They move us closer to and at the
Inns, Churches, Parks And Avenues
Bucharest became the capital of Wallachia in the middle of the sixteenth century in preference to the earlier sub‑Carpathian capitals of Câmpulung, Curtea de Argeş and Târgovişte. It became the capital of the united Romanian principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia
A Favour
Act One A wretched land, Sir! The country of ill-granted favours! was telling me at the height of our discussion, Mr Ibrişim an elector to the first collegium, bitterly criticizing our various administrations. Only now and then interrupting himself in order to drain a
History Of The Romanians - Before Decebalus
CHAPTER I 1. The Dacian Offensive: His Majesty, Decebalus Long had Rome been dealing with this headstrong Dacian people; but, having had them for some time encircled closely by other barbarians and guarded by ships on the Danube, whose function was mainly political,
Report
About fifteen years ago, during the Brătianu Cabinet, I was editing 'The National Revolt'. It was an essentially combative paper, in strong opposition to the government. Our strength however lay not so much in the leading articles or in the polemic pieces as in
Echoes
Aida, March 17, 1920. I waited for it. With the justifiable, feverish impatience you feel before an ideal dream comes true!, wrote the Rampa magazine on March 18, 1920, hailing the opening of the first lyrical season. People liked the cheap, but very beautiful stage design,
Tanase Scatiu
excerpts The carriage was hardly making any progress along the muddy road. The field was oozing with water. Night was creeping down and the cold turned the clods numb and stiff, while the small pools of water around gained a thin crust of ice, which made it even more difficult
The Wild Wine Gallery
excerpt He continued to walk towards the former Senate Square, his hand pressed against his jaw, still paralyzed from the aggression of the figurant, and the bizarre appearance of his General in that particular place. One blow after another. It was too much… It was indeed