Sreten Ugričić, director of the National Library
A kiss to wake up
"The library, admittedly, is not really a girl, rather a lady in her prime, beautiful and of noble origin, only in a state of deep hibernation for ten years"
Shifts in cultural institutions
Expertise instead of veteran service
The arrival of new people at the head of state houses is an act of symbolic cleansing of those spaces, which is fundamentally different from the Pope's fairy tales i mantras with brandished lanterns with which some new administrators, in a cloud of smoke, solemnly announced the arrival of ancient times
Film
Exit Wounds
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak; Starring: Steven Seagal, DMX, Tom Arnold, Anthony Anderson, Jill Hennessy
Books
Lapidarium, Rišard Kapušćinski
Translated by Biserka Rajičić, Samizdat FreeB92, Belgrade, 2001.
In memoriam - Davorin Popović
Too big for irony
Everyone knows everything about Indices. They recorded three albums and who knows how many singles. Davorin also recorded three solo records. They left behind a bunch of wonderful songs by which generations were recognized and loved
New prose
Amalgam color
From the new series "Words", in which the books of Vulet Žurić, Mihajlo Spasojević and Nenad Jovanović were published, it can be seen how necessary it is for storytelling to subordinate everything to itself... The crudeness of bodily expression, or the evocation of what is primitive in its unprocessed form, mean nothing. for the story if it does not build a better and more artistically valuable symbolic representation from them. Only then the color of the poetic amalgam, the sound of the waltz and the swan song become literary valuable
Going out into the world
Soap opera and folk diva
As part of one of the most important European festivals, in Vienna Wiener festwohen attention was drawn to two local artists - in the visual arts program, the artist Milica Tomić performed in whose performance the singer Dragana Mirković took part, while in the drama program, a new play by Biljana Srbljanović was performed for the first time Supermarket
Performance by Milica Tomić
"This is contemporary art"
One of the questions addressed to Dragana Mirković was whether she is aware that there are homosexuals among her audience. "Of course, they are my fans", was the short answer in excellent English
Film
Closet
Directed by: Francis Weber; Playing: Daniel Auteuil, Gerard Depardieu, Thierry Lhermitte, Michel Larocque, Michel Aumont
Interview - Peter Sellars
Spiritual feeling
One of the most important contemporary directors, the "passionate child" of the American theater, as this famous artist was called, talks about his work, moving to Australia, public engagement and some issues of the modern world
Everyday life
From Niš to Nišvila
If you want to know what the city you've come to is like, you must go to the market
Anti-Semitic writings in bookstores
Conversations in hell
They can be bought in the middle of Belgrade without any problems Protocols of Zion sage in the latest edition, then My Fight Adolf Hitler, as well as numerous books of the Belgrade publisher IHTUS Christian book, whose publishing policy is clearly indicated by the name of one of his libraries, Judeans - Evildoers and God-Fighters
Consequences of taxing books
The righteous and the criminal
The new government mocked everyone who reads, and therefore uses their brains and thinks, so by nature of things they are among those who certainly did something to bring about political changes in the country
Books
This is Serbia Calling
Matthew Colin: This is Serbia Calling – rock and roll radio and the Belgrade resistance movement (translated by Oto Oltvanji; Samizdat FreeB92, Belgrade 2001)
Interview - Žarko Puhovski
Reconciliation without truth
"We will be happy for a while that people don't kill each other, and after that it won't be enough. I don't think there is a climate that can withstand the truth."
Problems of the National Theater
Wishes
"There is simply no money", Minister Branislav Lečić repeated to the accusations, pleas, criticisms and cries of the employees.
The new stage of the Zvezdara Theater
For new generations
The nineties in the mirror of drama Doctor Schuster
Absurdity with a thesis
Dušan Kovačević fought for a privileged, but burdensome position at the same time treatment. This means that we approach his pieces with a special expectation, that we view them not so much as separate and autonomous achievements, but as advances or declines within a widely recognized and unequivocally recognized author's style.
