ART

ART REVIEW, FILM

PAYING THE PRICE OF MOTHERHOOD IN FLESH, BLOOD AND GRIEF

07.May 2020 - By Katerina Kolozova

The latest film by the American-Macedonian film director Milcho Manchevski’s, Willow, was released on October 19th 2019 at the Rome Film Festival, starring an all-Macedonian and predominantly female lineup of exquisite actors. The international award…
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THEATRE

UMA THURMAN PREMIERS ON BROADWAY

16.November 2017 - MILICA magazine

“Of course it’s exposing, but no exposure, no challenge. You can’t test yourself in safety.” – Uma Thurman Hadson Theatre (Broadway) presents Uma Thurman in “The Parisian Woman” by Beau Willimon, author of the Netflix…
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MUSIC

Two minutes of your attention!

13.October 2017 - Text: Ana Dajić

„Yes, they have that feeling, but not the skill. What happens when the passion is bigger than knowledge and skill? Energy is created. And that is rock and roll.“ from the movie 20th Century Women…
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CONTEMPORARY ART

VIVA ARTE VIVA!

06.October 2017 - Katarina Marković

  It’s hard to imagine a place more visually challenging, provocative and pleasing than the Venice Art Biennale. During summer, social media fills up with different impressions from visitors of the spectacle – one that…
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LITERATURE

CHANSON DOUCE

24.August 2017 - MILICA MAGAZINE

Leila Slimani (1982) is a Franco-Moroccan writer and journalist, whose direct and irresistible style, along with its extremely erotic nature, attracted the attention of the reading audience to her first novel Dans le jardin de…
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VISUAL ART

I AM BLACK BUT BEAUTIFUL

28.July 2017 - Text by: Milica Laufer

  Artist Neda Kovinic just came back from a residency in the South of France and is already getting ready for a meeting in Salzburg. We discovered Nada’s art at her solo exhibition I am…
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VISUAL ART

THERE WERE MANY GARAVAGGISTI BUT ONLY ONE CARAVAGGISTA

07.July 2017 - By Ana Simona Zelenović

  “There were many Caravaggisti but only one Caravaggista.” These were the words used by an art historian Mary Garrard to emphasize the importance of an Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Palazzo Braschi, at the…
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MUSIC

GLITTER AND MUD

30.June 2017 - By Ana Dajić

  Older generations would say that today’s festivals are just a pale copy of Woodstock, a hopeless battle to be the most beautiful “flower child” in all the glitter and mud. However, whatever your age…
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THEATRE

A COMEBACK MUST NOT BE A STEP BACK

26.June 2017 - Text by: MINA STANIKIĆ

I know all the lights and shadows in this city, the smell of lime trees and the river, I can see the cargo ships passing under the bridge from the window in my apartment, I…
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POETRY

EARTH 2.0

12.May 2017 - TEXT AND VIDEO: MAŠA SENIČIĆ

I never meant I love you whenever I would say it Ana Marija Grbić is a bold and gentle poetess with a provocative thematic scope; in 1987 she was born in Belgrade, where she is…
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MUSIC

SHORT DISTANCE

25.April 2017 - TEXT & AUDIO: ANA DAJIĆ

From Belgrade, Bojana sent love letters to Portugal, and turned them into her first solo album “Daljine” (Distances). The “distance”, in this case, is 2543 kilometers from Belgrade, and exactly three years since her last…
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VISUAL ART

#MAJA IN NY

01.April 2017 - MILICA LAUFER

How Maja went from Instagram to New York City. Maja Djordjevic, artist from Belgrade, recently came back from NY to her hometown. She tells us stories and draws for us and swings her hands in…
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MUSIC, POETRY

EVERYTHING IS PUNK AND EVERYTHING IS POETRY

28.March 2017 - TEXT: ANA DAJIĆ

The Belgrade poet and musician Ognjenka Lakićević recently published her new poetry collection Love Letters to Google, and has a performance coming up with her band Autopark, in Belgrade Youth Centre on April 1st. She…
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FILM

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A WOMEN’S WAVE

26.March 2017 - Tekst: Maša Seničić

As if anyone can just run away and start a new life! Not everyone has the luxury to search for one’s true self, there is simply no time for that. Hana Jušić is a young…
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MUSIC

INGENIOUS MICACHU

13.March 2017 - MILICA magazine

The girl who composed the Jackie soundtrack: “It’s all a bit of a fantasy!” A person of exceptional talent or intellect is, by definition, a genius. It was clear to me that Mica Levi was one…
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POETRY

A FEMINIST. A FIGHTER FOR ALTERING RELATIONSHIPS, IN TERMS OF EMOTIONS AND PRODUCTION

05.March 2017 - MAJA SOLAR

“I am still far from being the type of the positively new women who take their experience as females with a relative lightness and, one could say, with an enviable superficiality, whose feelings and mental…
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LITERATURE

BOTH SUCCESS AND FAILURE

05.March 2017 - MILICA MAGAZINE

The NIN Award was established in 1954 by the weekly newspaper NIN, and became the most prestigious award for Yugoslav, and later Serbian novelists. It is awarded once a year, and was so far given…
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LITERARY TRANSLATION, LITERATURE, POETRY

SHORT TALKS

22.February 2017 - Translation: ALEN BEŠIĆ

A selection of poems translated by Alen Bešić to be published in Spring 2017. Anne Carson, born 1950, is a Canadian novelist, poet, essayist and Classics professor. Having had what could be called a very…
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ART CRITICISM, VISUAL ART

LIKE THERE IS NO TOMORROW

27.January 2017 - MILICA MAGAZINE

About personal limits, crossing them, the painful step away from an already established system of values and meanings. They are about emancipation, clumsiness and the fear of failure….about giving a new meaning to these things,…
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FILM

YES, WE ARE OPRESSED! (bursts into laughter)

09.January 2017 - Interview: MAŠA SENIČIĆ

During seventies there was a heavy debate in the Norwegian newspapers about women rights, but there was a tendency I disliked, a tendency of self-pity, lamenting among women. Film Wives was something different, a self-irony.…
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