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Alături de Galeria de Artă Modernă „Zachęta, Muzeul de Artă Modernă din Varşovia este cea mai prestigioasă instituţie de promovare a artelor vizuale din Polonia. Condus de una dintre cele mai influente curatoare poloneze, Joanna Mytkowska, MNAC-ul polonez are

excerptsThe most dazzling phenomenon of the long Finnish winter night is the polar lights. The fantastical miracles that move profoundly the foreign traveler, they also impress the local people, who watch them in ecstasy like some genuine miracles of nature. The most impressive

The proportions of the body of an Eskimo are of great interest. The body is well built. It shows, among other things, a bust circumference of 945 mm for the male and 863 mm for the woman. So, as one can see, from the point of view of the proportion of the medium circumference

excerptsJust like the other colonial cities, Kingstown has three parts: one is commercial, another contains filthy dwellings of the indigenous population, and, finally, another has gorgeous villas, with tropical gardens of an uncontrolled vegetative burst, full of huge flowers

Nighttime in Mérida. A restaurant whose name I don't know. Two singers dressed in Mexican costumes are singing on the platform. Caminante, / Caminante, / Walking on our roads,The ancient roads/ of Mayab…How can we translate this word caminante? Traveler? No, I don't

EUNIC Brussels, reţeaua Europeană a Institutelor Naţionale de Cultură cu sediul la Bruxelles, organizează în fiecare lună în cadrul EUNIC Club dezbateri, colocvii şi mese rotunde având ca invitaţi personalităţi proeminente ale vieţii culturale, sociale şi

Vineri, 13 februarie, prima zi a Carnavalului de la Veneţia va fi sărbătorită la Institutul Român de Cultură şi Cercetare Umanistică printr-un dublu eveniment cultural. Unul din cei mai importanţi scriitori veneţieni de azi, Alfio Fiorentino, a ales Institutul

Iuliu Popper's name is tied to Argentina where, on an 'exploratory voyage,' (1886) he gave the relief Romanian names: Punta Sinaia, Puerto Popper, Rio Rosetti, etc. by Florin Faifer

excerptsA group of Indians. In one of these caves I saw the inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego for the first time. I had left the convoy behind at a certain distance and accompanied by two men, I had gone ahead, when all of a sudden, I found myself near a group of 25 or 30

Friday, December 10, 1897We leave at 1 o'clock in the morning. Description of the Toro. The fat captain and his unremitting thirst. I go to sleep in the mechanic's cabin (or room, or whatever). Wine and alcohol on the table. The first mechanic is drunk all the

When I set out to New Zealand, I had a tape recorder and a tape with the bells from Putna monastery. And during the long flight, from Bucharest to Wellington – approximately 30 hours on the plane, plus two stopovers – I would listen to the bells from Putna and to the

The theatre is a rather faithful reflection of a people's mores. The Japanese theatre is superior to and different from the Chinese one, in which neither the art, nor the artistic appreciation or the realism of the Japanese theatre can be found. Heightened to the status