The private cultural center "Aquarius" is the only cultural institution that has been operating in North Kosovska Mitrovica without interruption for ten years. There, citizens of Mitrovica can see exhibitions or a movie, listen to a concert, debate, drink coffee, read, buy or borrow a book. It all fits into one hundred square meters
Feuilleton about a writer whose "head speaks English, his heart speaks Russian, and his ear listens to French", a descendant of the Russian aristocracy who fled the October Revolution on the ship "Nadezhda", changed his date of birth because of Lenin and lost everything - including his first love, his Annabelle Lee - so he married in Weimar Germany and survived Hitler's regime with a Jewish woman; in Paris, he kissed and then left the unfortunate emigrant Irina and fled from Hitler to America, wrote a bestseller book about a pedophile and a nymph, which is still discussed today in the MeToo movement; and towards the end of my life, I heard that his Annabelle Lee married a Chekist from Paradise and did not return to Russia, and fell on the Magic Hill at an altitude of 1900 meters while trying to catch a butterfly parnassius apollo, the messenger of Olympus
Nebraska is the key album to understanding Bruce Springsteen's career, and the just-released extended reissue confirms that in many ways
World-renowned writer and curator Nicolas Bouriot (1965, France) was a guest in Belgrade on the occasion of collaboration on the catalog of the Serbian pavilion at the recently concluded Venice Biennale of Architecture. The Serbian pavilion in Venice is called Disentanglement: New spaces, presented a colossal multi-layered woven surface that almost levitates in the space of the pavilion and that, during the Biennale, tears itself and returns to a ball of yarn, as a reflection of the relationship between the work of the hand and the process of structuring the form. The starting point of the group of authors - D. Ereš, J. Mitrović, I. Pantić, S. Krstć, I. Najdanović, P. Laušević - was Belgrade fist (1963, B. Čolak-Antić), the world's first robotic bionic hand designed for prosthetic purposes
Even the Nazis and Communists understood that without basic legal certainty and culture, one cannot rule. However, Vučić's primitive team is not
Play dirty. (Amazon Prime), directed by Shay Blake, starring Mark Wahlberg
We will be remembered as the phantom artistic director who prevented our most important festival from being suitable for those who are incompetent
Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, translation from English by Aleksandar Milajić, Booka, Belgrade 2024.
Corrupt (or just careless and incompetent) decision-makers, greedy investors, insufficiently aware locals conspired against cultural heritage in Vojvodina, and only in the end - the ravages of time.
Despite the cancellation of certain publishers and requests to postpone this event, this year's Book Fair begins. The prime date is November 1 - the day that marks one year since the fatal fall of the canopy of the Railway Station in Novi Sad
Many people approached me after the film with a smile, while wiping away tears. I think they are touched by the fact that the film covers an era of exceptional creators, who are an indispensable part of our common history
Employees of the National Theater are starting a one-hour warning strike today due to their dissatisfaction with the new Management Board and the Rulebook on Labor Discipline. Actors are supported by students and colleagues from other theaters
At the beginning of February, at the time of large protests, the Government of Serbia adopted a decision by which it takes away 25 percent of the little money it has allocated to culture in order to transfer it to the budget reserve. Without reason or explanation. All sectors of culture suffered: 75 million dinars were taken from local culture, 34 million dinars from publishing, almost 28 million dinars from cultural heritage protection, 20 million dinars from film, and so on.
As a society, neither at the end of the eighties, nor ten or fifteen years ago, were we able to recognize the perniciousness of simpletons and kitsch. We didn't see that singing fountains, crazy New Year's lights, idiotic monuments, and all that followed by media hype, directly announce totalitarianism, ruins and death.
Unlike mainstream albums of that time, The third world he did not aim for instant recognition but for a lasting impression. And for someone discovering it for the first time today, it's still an eye-opening record, because it hasn't aged at all in its themes or in the way it invites imagination and a different look at everyday life.
Alan Moore, V as Vendetta, Magic book
(400 pages, format 225x336 mm); translated by Ivan Jovanović
The festival year in Serbia goes on either without a festival, or with festivals without an audience that the progressives made in spite of the artists and the people
Can an artist's idea be more important than his work? Of course he can. Can we call it all art? Also - yes, if we want to. And is a theater performance an art or a social act? Well, we won't think the same about that
Despite the visible effort to make the matter as serious as possible, James Gunn does not resist the unnecessary and forced reminder of the importance of human kindness, always and everywhere, so he inserts references to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but places it in the post-Yugoslav context, and one of the villains speaks in slang and is a blind follower of Western big capital. It is precisely this moment in the story that brings infantilization back into the open
Although he remains faithful to the poetics of the fragment, in the novel The Suicide of Leve he is closer to a more classical prose speech. Narrated in the second person, as an address to a dead friend, this novel confronts the fundamental phenomena of human existence: the experience of the world and man's place in it, posterity and the meaning of the family, contemporary art, the modern state, politics, etc. The story, certainly conditioned by the theme, is told in a slightly elevated tonality of modern, dark pathos, and yet with a certain cheerfulness, which is imposed by the fact that the most important event in the story, the denouement, happened already at the beginning
Organizers of two summer film festivals in Serbia have canceled or postponed this year's plans due to the current crisis in society. How politics affects the scene
In the second act, Leone and Glembay burrowed into each other like a sparrow in a sparrow. That cruel confrontation ended with Glembay's death. In his death throes with the appearance of Baroness Castelli, old Glembay ended up in the arms of his son. It is a tribute to Michelangelo and his sculpture "Pieta". The "Pieta" scene was conceived by Danilo Marunović
About migrations and refugees, wars, terror of the state apparatus and protests and activism at the World Festival of Animated Film Animafest, in Zagreb
On top, written and directed by Jesse Armstrong, HBO Max
Three exceptional achievements by domestic authors required not only artistic but also existential courage (if it is even possible to distinguish between them). Želimir Žilnik does not give up, Stefan Malešević still loves his heroes, Maja Novaković boldly plunges into the realms of silence
