Urbanism

30December 2024 S.Ć.

Here's what the Nikola Tesla Museum will look like

At the international architectural competition for the Nikola Tesla Museum, 46 works were submitted, the jury decided on the London-Belgrade team whose buildings are well-known to the citizens of Belgrade.

The case of Cyrillic

27November 2024 Sonja Ciric

Minister against literacy

Although the Ministry of Culture has decided that from January 1, it will not buy books in Latin for libraries, publishers will continue to publish them. This means that this new measure will not help the Cyrillic alphabet, and that it has deprived libraries of many good and important books. Only the state will save again

Comment

16October 2024 Sonja Ciric

Publisher blackmail: Cyrillic forward, Latin stop

The Minister of Culture, Nikola Selaković, was clear and consistent: the state has nothing against publishers publishing in another script, but only books published in the "beautiful Vukova Cyrillic" will be purchased. And immediately. Because there is no cile-mile anymore

State and culture

13October 2024 Sonja Ciric

Zubin Mehta: The Belgrade Philharmonic needs a building

The Ministry of Culture did not report that Minister Selaković met with maestro Zubin Mehta on Saturday. Maybe because the maestro praised the architectural project of the new building of the Belgrade Philharmonic, and the minister does not mention it when he talks about the Expo.

Beograd

08October 2024 S.Ć.

Two of the six museums headed to the EXPO

On Monday, an international competition for the "Nikola Tesla" museum was announced, and the beginning of work on the conversion of the old building of the main railway station into a historical museum was announced for Tuesday. The deadline is Expo 2027

Analyze

A culture of strategic rush

Since becoming the line minister, Nikola Selaković has announced the creation of a strategic document dedicated to the systematic tracing of directions for the development of cultural policy. New cabinet, new directions of development, priorities, projects, new artists

New in culture

20September 2024 S.Ć.

NAFFIT, the first Serbian national film festival

NAFFIT, the first Serbian National Film and Television Festival, was founded. It will be in Zlatibor, as Minister Selaković said - at "three borders and a crossroads of cultures", and according to the idea of ​​director Gaga Antonijević

Writing

15September 2024 S.Ć.

Nikola Selaković: Three steps to save the Cyrillic alphabet

The first step is mandatory two-alphabet keyboards, the second is about publishers and concerns their economic survival, and the third is announcing new Cyrillic fonts. They were announced by the Minister of Culture, Nikola Selaković, as means in the fight to preserve the Cyrillic alphabet

Reacting

21August 2024 Sonja Ciric

Answer to city secretary for culture Nataša Mihailović Vacić

The only thing that I really missed in the text that provoked the secretary's response was to list everything that the Secretariat for Culture of the City of Belgrade did not do, but should have done. Let's say, to clarify which phantom organizations are supported by citizens' money

Culture and the state

28May 2024. S.Ć.

In three weeks, Selaković has already announced about twenty museums and projects

Yesterday in Požarevac, Vršac and Pančevo, the Minister of Culture Nikola Selaković signed 13 contracts with the leaders of cultural institutions there, ten days ago in Belgrade he announced the construction and reconstruction of several museums, all in order to present Serbia as well as possible to all those who will visit it during Expo 2027