One good musician, or painter, or writer, or thinker is worth more than all the main committees of all the parties, all the members of parliament, all the ministers in some imaginary government. They are - or should be - interchangeable. Artists and thinkers by their gift and type of intelligence are not. Culture is art, hence the art of life
The Sensible Girl is an important character who heralds the emancipation of a new class and, at the same time, the beginning of the emancipation of women. Goldoni's Mirandolina is smart, hardworking, financially independent (thanks to her inheritance and her abilities), class conscious and successful, and money is a confirmation of moral and spiritual values
Even the devil himself, limping from hell himself, would not be able to resist this music: he would dance wildly with the instruction: "The category is dance or die". In the video clip, Lady Gaga is both Pushkin's Queen of Spades and the Red Queen from Alice through the looking glass, and any nameless creature from Bosch's pleasure garden triptych... and many more. Music and painting are inextricably linked
Mike 17, directed by Bong Joon Ho; roles Robert Pattison, Mark Ruffalo, Naomi Aki
The musicians of the Belgrade Philharmonic are on strike for the third week, and no one from the Ministry of Culture has yet addressed them. They are among the ten best orchestras in the world. They are asking to have salaries equal to the national minimum, and to have a director
On Thursday, the KCB organizes a discussion about the situation it is in since its Hall was blocked, but also a poetry festival, as it has been doing for 24 years, every World Poetry Day
Among the 7 most endangered cultural monuments in Europe for this year, Evropa Nostra included the General Staff complex. The government in Serbia should respect the international Faro Convention, which it signed
The Ministry of Culture is not paying attention to the demands of the Belgrade Philharmonic musicians, who are entering the third week of the strike, and nine institutions, including seven museums, have started a three-day strike.
The Assembly of the City of Belgrade appointed board members for the seven main festivals in the city. Dušan Kovačević heads the Fest Board
Nine cultural institutions that are on the budget of the state and city authorities announced a strike from May 17 to 19, demanding the urgent fulfillment of student demands, but also the unconditional depoliticization of cultural institutions.
The Belgrade Irish Festival presents two performances: a touching story about a homeless man who has lost his mind, and a musical theater about the role of memory and music in shaping personality.
The publishers of the two largest associations, UIKS and UPIS, and independent publishers are demanding that the Ministry of Culture cancel the competition for the purchase of books by libraries, among other things, because it only supports one, the Cyrillic alphabet.
According to the decision of the City Assembly, Nikita Milivojević's mandate was not extended, and the new artistic director of Bitef was not elected. Thus, the list of international festivals whose work has been stopped by the City Assembly during the last month has been increased to four. It is assumed that the reasons are ineligibility and the Expo
A theater performance is taking place in the Pioneer Park in front of the Presidency. It has a stage, natural actors, costumes, an audience, and direct communication is often established between those inside and outside the fence.
Goranka Matic, Memory and hope, gallery "November", Belgrade, March 2025, curators Una Popović and Mia David
"Well-intentioned people tend to impose their good intentions on others. Now, students are liberators of hope and pent-up feelings, but they are not our personal liberators. We have to help ourselves, we need to see what happens with those feelings, the awakened dignity, we have to take responsibility and not place it on someone else because we will fall asleep again at the first next opportunity. We need complete liberation, not just a temporary valve”
The latest news about Maja Herman Sekulić is that, by the decision of the jury of the International Academy of Ethics based in India, this writer has been nominated for the Nobel Prize
During his visit to Kovačica, Vučić was presented with a painting by Martin Jonas, even though it is under UNESCO protection. That's why the citizens of Kovačica are asking for that painting to be returned to them
Minister Nikola Selaković recently told members of the Belgrade Philharmonic that the new concert hall is an expensive project. Although President Vučić himself promised several times that the Philharmonic will get the building, the artists are now seriously worried
The open letter of the employees of the National Museum supporting the students, asking for protection for the General Staff and showing solidarity with colleagues from the Republic Institute for Protection and the National Library of Serbia who are trying to preserve these institutions is a big change in the local culture
The Cultural Center of Belgrade continues the previously planned March program in the light of complex social circumstances and the situation in which it found itself after the cinema hall was occupied
Belgrade Games Festival, Irish Festival and BlokadniFest are held in the capital. This means that both the Fest and the March Festival could have kept their traditional dates - if only the City Assembly had done its part on time
A new Board of the March Festival has been constituted, so now the new date of the festival, as well as the budget and program can be confirmed even though it was formed a long time ago. The City Assembly was waiting for all this
After the postponement of the traditional Fest, students in the blockade decided to hold their own film festival - Blockade Fest. What did the students prepare for the visitors of the festival from March 9 to 16
The ensemble of the play "What are you sleeping on the floor" gave applause to the students, and the audience of the "Gavela" Theater in Zagreb gladly accepted it.
The Fest Board issued a statement with the intention of dispelling incorrect information in the public about the postponement and other things related to this year's festival. He did not succeed, but he opened up new questions and pointed out who is not really doing his job here
Demonstrators took to the streets and university campuses, as well as subway stations, as crowds chanted anti-government slogans, a display of public anger not seen in years.
Three white vans without license plates are parked right next to the Presidency building, a highly protected facility. Is there any special operation in the middle and whose vehicles are there, which were also there during the noise on Saturday
At the same moment when the silence in Kralj Milan was broken by a terrible roar, a group of young men from the "King's Circle Residences" construction site started throwing firecrackers and cannon shots at the citizens
According to initial information, three cars and a tractor were involved in the chain collision
The musicians of the Belgrade Philharmonic are on strike for the third week, and no one from the Ministry of Culture has yet addressed them. They are among the ten best orchestras in the world. They are asking to have salaries equal to the national minimum, and to have a director
We allowed ourselves two dictators in 30 years. That is the core of our problem. There is no quick fix for this. And that's why March 15 could not be the Fifth of October. Because the Fifth of October is not enough now. Must be slower, must be smarter. It needs to be more thorough. Yesterday was not the end, because this is just the beginning
The speech of the head of state, Aleksandar Vučić, is best described by the word - indisposition. The March 15 protest is his heavy political defeat. Now everyone saw that he no longer had the ability to prevent events, let alone create them
All those who lied all day long on the regime televisions that the "colored revolution failed" know very well what happened on Saturday, March 15, in Belgrade: they were given a warning before being expelled
We allowed ourselves two dictators in 30 years. That is the core of our problem. There is no quick fix for this. And that's why March 15 could not be the Fifth of October. Because the Fifth of October is not enough now. Must be slower, must be smarter. It needs to be more thorough. Yesterday was not the end, because this is just the beginning
The speech of the head of state, Aleksandar Vučić, is best described by the word - indisposition. The March 15 protest is his heavy political defeat. Now everyone saw that he no longer had the ability to prevent events, let alone create them
All those who lied all day long on the regime televisions that the "colored revolution failed" know very well what happened on Saturday, March 15, in Belgrade: they were given a warning before being expelled
Policemen saw Belgrade on Saturday, soldiers saw it. Members of the Serbian Progressive Party saw Belgrade. Ivica Dacic also saw him. And nothing is the same anymore
The eavesdropped discussion of the Novi Sad PSG board is at the level of banter in pub conversations, such as are held throughout Serbia. Its publication shows all the misery of the severely shaken government, as well as the wanderings of parts of the opposition parties
The German and Swiss media intensively report on the recent protests in Belgrade, analyzing allegations of the possible use of acoustic weapons against the demonstrators. While the Serbian authorities deny these claims, European journalists highlight the ambiguities and inconsistencies in the explanations
Citizens of North Macedonia on social networks are disgusted and angry because of the picture of Aleksandar Vučić in intensive care with the seriously injured from the fire in the discotheque in Kočani who were transported to Serbia
The non-governmental organization Irshot is investigating whether the government in Serbia used sonic weapons against the demonstrators. Irshot is the world's first non-profit organization that conducts audio research for human rights and environmental protection
A reliable source from the MUP told "Vremen" that one of the sonic "cannons" was given to the Police Brigade on Banovo Brdo in charge of suppressing riots and that, when it arrived, it was tested on people once - and never again because the policemen were incapacitated for work
"Vreme" investigated the cause of the stampede on Saturday, March 15, in the center of Belgrade, and then the services published their own version through the tabloid
