Funds for culture are small, but the bigger problem is that they are squandered on dubious projects, projects of predatory organizations through a fund to which the Minister of Culture and other decision-makers have the discretionary right, is one of the conclusions of the Independent Culture Scene research
Last year, Slovenia allocated 115 euros per capita for culture, Croatia 109, Montenegro 40, Serbia 18, and Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,3 euros, according to the analysis of the Independent Cultural Scene.
Since 2015, the NKSS has been monitoring the spending of the public budget through the analysis of the results of the competition for culture, and the aforementioned result was obtained by analyzing the use of public funds by the Ministry of Culture, the Provincial Secretariat for Culture, the Secretariat for Culture of the City of Belgrade, the Culture Administration of the City of Novi Sad, and administration for social activities of ten more cities in Serbia (Subotica, Zrenjanin, Kragujevac, Kraljevo, Kruševac, Užice, Novi Pazar, Niš, Leskovac and Vranje).
A clear and worrying trend can be observed in the past decade.
Despite the fact that Serbia's budget is nominally increasing, the percentage earmarked for culture is decreasing.
A high percentage of "phantom" organizations has become a regular practice, and is visible in a high percentage. "Phantom" organizations are those that receive money even though culture is not their primary activity, those that were founded immediately before the competition of the Ministry and the like.
Funds for culture are small, but the bigger problem is that they are squandered on dubious projects, projects of predatory organizations through a fund to which the Minister of Culture and other decision-makers have the discretionary right, is one of the conclusions of the research.
In 2025, the budget for culture will be smaller than it was this year - only 0,67%.
UNESCO recommends the two member states to set aside a minimum of 1% of the state budget for culture. Once again, Serbia did not reach the recommended amount.
Employees of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of the City of Belgrade learned from "Vremen" that their director, Aleksandar Ivanović, sent an illegal document to the Ministry of Culture proposing to revoke the status of a cultural monument of the General Staff complex. Now they distance themselves from that document
I wonder how much art matters, how much anything matters in relation to what's going on. Currently, in the Museum of Contemporary Art, we have an exhibition of David Hockney, one of the greatest painters of today. It's the show of the year. I was just thinking about how I still didn't go see it, but I realized that you need a certain kind of peace to go to the exhibition. To be there for three hours and not look at your phone to check if the police are out front
In her daughter's film, Jane Mansfield gets the chance for the first time to be seen as a real woman of flesh and blood, with all the virtues and flaws, and not a mere projection of men's sexual fantasies about an insatiable busty blonde. On the other hand, Ashley April and Amanda Lear bring their multiple identities to the stage, embracing and rejecting them. Actually, playing with them
June Fosse, Septology; translated from Norwegian by Radoš Kosović; Third Square and Silver Tree, 2023–2024.
Other name (I-II), I am someone else. (III-V), New name (VI-VII)
Right from the title, therefore, one enters into a complex poetic and cultural-historical dialogue, which, however, instead of answers and explanations offers anxieties and doubts
If we are neutral while students are being imprisoned, girls and boys are being beaten for God's justice, democracy is being suppressed, dissenters are being dehumanized, corruption is continuing that kills and many other evil things are being done - then nothing
Serbia is not ready for fires, storms and floods, but President Aleksandar Vučić is ready to turn everything into propaganda
A policeman and a policewoman were filmed pulling a student's hair in an attempt to extort her. It is a classic example of torture, a gross violation of the law for which they would have to bear the consequences
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