Ljubomir Simovic

In memoriam

17April 2025. TS

Ljubomir Simović (1935-2025): The poet who did not want to be silent

Academician Ljubomir Simović, one of the greatest modern Serbian poets and playwrights, a man who did not want to remain mute to the reality in which he lived, has passed away. "In the 2014s, the bar 'Šargan' was an island of the rejected on the outskirts of Belgrade, and today the whole of Serbia has become a bar 'Šargan'. A bar full of humiliated people without perspective and hope," Simović told "Vreme" in XNUMX.

Protests in Serbia

14march 2025 KS

SANU with students

The Executive Board of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts supports student protests and condemns threats and physical attacks on students

Exhibition

23December 2024 S.Ć.

Dado Đurić for the first time in Belgrade

The first retrospective exhibition of Miodrag Dada Đurić was opened in the SANU Gallery. Amaret Zidon, the author of the exhibition and the artist's daughter, selected 50 works, many of which are being shown for the first time

Student's break

16December 2024 S.Ć.

Culture of Serbia: We support students and their demands

Art associations, SANU, PEN Center, NKSS, AICA, university and scientific workers, individuals, petition signatories, provide support for democratic organizing and student demands, stressing the urgency of their fulfillment

General Staff

15November 2024 Sonja Ciric

Serbian government: The General Staff can collapse

The Government of the Republic of Serbia made a decision on the termination of the status of a cultural property of the General Staff complex. Who cares what SANU, Evropa Nostra, the professional public and the like think. Because, as Seselj said, if Trump's son-in-law is willing to invest money and build a hotel there, why not give them

Equality

08November 2024 Sonja Ciric

More women were admitted to SANA than ever before

With the decision to admit 12 women as corresponding members, including Milena Marković and Vida Ognjenović, it seems that the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts is abandoning the previous practice based on the view that the criteria required for academics are better met by men than women

Personal attitude

18October 2023 Vladimir Kostic

One vote is always decisive

A friend reminded me of another archetypal sentence that probably confirms one's own moral credibility: "And let's face it, I'm not a member of any party!". Let's face it, neither am I, but I attribute that to my age, not to any human advantage of mine

Culture

05September 2023 S.Ć.

One hundred years since the birth of the great Mica Popović

The exhibition of paintings in the SANU Gallery, which opens tonight, is the main segment of the celebration of the centenary of the birth of the famous painter, after a series of exhibitions and books held and published since the beginning of the year

Interview: Academician Zoran Knežević, president of SANU

15June 2023 Slobodan Bubnjević

In the new issue: Serbia is still a civilized society

"In this society, there are topics and questions that do not have easy and quick answers. The Academy is often called out not only because of that, but also because of some other issues where there are certain frustrations in society, but mostly these are such questions to which there are actually no quick and easy answers, because if there were, they would not ask the Academy"

Interview: Professor Alpar Loshonc, corresponding member of SANU

30November 2022 Jelena Jorgacevic

Only truth remains against power

"Our eternal dilemma is whether an intellectual loses his identity if he offers services to the authorities, that is, whether he then ceases to be an intellectual. This problem was thought to have gone away, but it hasn't. And the sirens that seduce intellectuals are more cunning today than before, the mechanisms are more invisible. And an intellectual, especially one who is no stranger to at least a small dose of cynicism, easily finds an alibi. Today, the chances of becoming a quasi-intellectual are extraordinary."

Interview

Ljubomir Simović: General robbery is legalized here

"After the liberation of Užice, at the very end of the Second World War, a meeting was held on the Wheat Market - now Partisan Square. I remember that on the roof of the market scale, where the participants and speakers performed, music professor Dragoljub Jovašević sang: It's already May Day / Russians in Berlin are now drinking tea.' At that rally, as a third-grade student, I recited a satirical poem about occupied Belgrade. I had forgotten that poem, and who was its author. But, looking at what has been happening in Belgrade in recent years, I remembered the beginnings of the lines of that satire: 'Belgrade, famous old city / what do they do with you in madness!'"

News

26January 2022 S.Ć.

Argument over language: Negation of Bosnian and Croatian

The Protector of Citizens believes that the Bosnian National Council and the Croatian National Council are right when they say that the Serbian language textbooks negate the Bosnian and Croatian languages. The Serbian Language Standardization Committee at SAN does not think so

Serbian cultural treasure

13January 2022 Sonja Ciric

Miroslav's Gospel: Concealment of Desecration

The organizers of the phototype edition of "Miroslav's Gospel" claim that during the restoration of this UNESCO-protected monument, the pages were wrongly connected and accuse the National Museum and the Ministry of Culture and Information of a conspiracy of silence about the desecration.