ART
PAYING THE PRICE OF MOTHERHOOD IN FLESH, BLOOD AND GRIEF
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…
UMA THURMAN PREMIERS ON BROADWAY
“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…
Two minutes of your attention!
„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…
VIVA ARTE VIVA!
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…
CHANSON DOUCE
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…
I AM BLACK BUT BEAUTIFUL
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…
THERE WERE MANY GARAVAGGISTI BUT ONLY ONE CARAVAGGISTA
“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…
GLITTER AND MUD
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…
A COMEBACK MUST NOT BE A STEP BACK
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…
SHORT DISTANCE
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…
#MAJA IN NY
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…
EVERYTHING IS PUNK AND EVERYTHING IS POETRY
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…
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A WOMEN’S WAVE
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…
INGENIOUS MICACHU
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…
A FEMINIST. A FIGHTER FOR ALTERING RELATIONSHIPS, IN TERMS OF EMOTIONS AND PRODUCTION
“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…
BOTH SUCCESS AND FAILURE
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…
LITERARY TRANSLATION, LITERATURE, POETRY
SHORT TALKS
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…
LIKE THERE IS NO TOMORROW
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,…
YES, WE ARE OPRESSED! (bursts into laughter)
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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