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Interwar Bucharest in Photos: Nicolae Ionescu, Iosif Berman, Willy Pragher

Posted on September 2, 2021September 2, 2021

The interwar years brought with them a new and fresh atmosphere. Modernist architecture as well as traffic and landscape improvements—elegant squares and parks, wider boulevards—finally gave Bucharest the air of…

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Long-Forgotten Women Artists From Romania

Posted on April 13, 2021May 18, 2021

Talented, hard-working, and beautiful, these women artists from Romania have been unjustly forgotten. Born around the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, with successful careers…

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Contemporary Romanian Playwrights Worth Knowing

Posted on February 15, 2021February 16, 2021

Contemporary theatre in Romania Before getting to know some of the most acclaimed contemporary Romanian playwrights it is important to know that in communist Romania, the theatre—as one of the…

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Romanian Aristocratic Women and the Parisian Salons

Posted on December 9, 2020December 9, 2020

Paris at the end of the 19th century saw a lot of Romanian aristocracy members among its inhabitants. Therefore it was quite often that Romanian aristocratic women, in possession of…

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Romanian Artists Performing Internationally

Posted on September 11, 2019February 15, 2021

Romanian artists, headliners, in many a circumstance, have been performing internationally for a long time. Still, it seems plausible that you have attended concerts, operas or ballets without knowing they’re…

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On Writing: Sophie van Llewyn, Author of Bottled Goods (Interview)

Posted on April 2, 2019September 29, 2019

Sophie van Llewyn is what we may call a citizen of the world. Born in Romania, living and working in Germany, and writing in English, her name might not sound…

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Cărturești & friends, Bucharest’s Friendliest English Bookshop

Posted on March 18, 2019February 15, 2021

In his 2001 novel American Gods, Neil Gaiman writes: “What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got…

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Daniel Leș and the Art of Figurative Ceramics

Posted on November 9, 2018November 18, 2020

With his craft having roots in the Dacian pottery, figurative ceramic artist Daniel Leș says his life’s luxury is being free to do what he wants, in his own home,…

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