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Irinel Liciu - A Great Sensitivity And Its Fragility

I was touched and amazed to discover this skinny little girl, thin and long legged, who was doing her exercises in the ballet room with the concentration of a mature artist. The way she led her body had lost any trace of effort and it was describing meanings known only to

Interview With Magdalena Popa

Art critics acclaimed Magdalena Popa: She is one of the most dazzling stars of the century. She was regarded as a goddess of this art. Her small body expressed grace, a sort of ritual noblesse. Born in Bucharest, she graduated from the High School of Choreography and then

Interview With Ioan Tugearu About Floria Capsali

You were one of Mrs. Capsali's students and on one occasion you confessed that you could talk about her excellence for days and days. This subject captivates me, it excites me, and at the same time it moves me because it's been 50 years since I met Floria Capsali.

10 Jun 2009

Institutul Român de Cultură şi Cercetare Umanistică de la Veneţia este partener oficial al Festivalului Internaţional de Poezie de la Genova

Festivalul Internaţional de Poezie de la Genova reprezintă, din anul 1995, cea mai importantă manifestare de gen din Italia, câştigând în acest an Premiul Ministerului italian pentru Bunuri şi Activităţi Culturale pentru cea mai bună promovare a poeziei.  Bucurându-se,

30 Jul 2009

Precizări privind suplimentul Figaroscope finanţat prin programul Publishing Romania

Publicarea suplimentului Figaroscope cu tema Bucarest & autres merveilles roumaines a fost susţinută prin programul Publishing Romania, un program de finanţare al ICR destinat promovării în mass media internaţionale a culturii şi civilizaţiei româneşti. Deciziile

Vivat Profesores! - Through The Looking Glass Of Time

There are chances in life. I have made mention of it before and will not hesitate to repeat it. To some of them we turn a blind eye; for others we may knowingly not have the just power of judgment and pondering. Or, that of turning something to good account. Floria Capsali

From Marriage In the Carpathians To Romeo and Juliet

1921. End of the year. The Romanian State Opera House was established in Bucharest. 1938. The month of August. The young institution was holding, through its representatives, master Floria Capsali to its bosom, who was employed on that occasion to nurture the destiny of

Self And Portrait

Like diaries and memoirs, portraits and especially self-portraits represent a favorite means of inserting the creator's self into history. One may eventually infer, if not directly grasp a writer's or a painter's positions and opinions about his milieu and

28 May 2009

Prezenţe româneşti la Forumul de istorie Berlin 2009

Între 28 - 30 mai 2009 se desfăşoară la Berlin Forumul de istorie cu tema „Europa între divizare şi efervescenţă revoluţionară (Geschichtsforum Berlin 2009. Europa zwischen Teilung und Aufbruch). Instituţii prestigioase, printre care Muzeul Naţional de Istorie

5 Aug 2009

Festivalul Naţional al Tradiţiilor Populare, la Sibiu

În perioada 6 - 9 august 2009 se desfăşoară la Sibiu Festivalul Naţional al Tradiţiilor Populare, ediţia a VIII-a, eveniment organizat de Institutul Cultural Român, prin Direcţia Români din Afara Ţării, în parteneriat cu Complexul Naţional Muzeal ASTRA Sibiu.

Fiction Of The Diary

excerpts The Diary and Its Readers We should not overdo it with diaries and letters. We usually tend to deem them more revealing of the man than his public work. All that is secretive, familiar draws us as if it were a confession. It is the pleasure of breaking an interdiction,

At Home We Speak In Whispers

* Excerpts from an interview with prose writer, political analyst and journalist Stelian TĂNASE (Observator cultural no. 121, 18-24 June 2002) Why did you choose to publish At Home We Speak in Whispers at this particular moment? Books come and go in a writer's imagination.