Part 1: Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest
Part 2: Bucharest, Krakow, Ljubljana, Prague
Part 3: Moscow, Sarajevo, Sofia, Zagreb
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> On April 21, 1884, a 28-year-old researcher in the field now called neuroscience sat down at the cluttered desk of his cramped room in Vienna General Hospital and composed a letter to his fiancée, Martha Bernays, telling her of his recent studies: “I have been reading about cocaine, the effective ingredient of coca leaves,” Sigmund Freud wrote, “which some Indian tribes chew in order to make themselves resistant to privation and fatigue.” < . READ MORE >
PS. On 20 July 2011, Freud´s grandson Lucian, a prominent British painter,
died at the age of 88 > OBITUARY > SLIDESHOW
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Dead
There are many crime scenes where the idea of Europe was murdered in the “short” 20th century. One of them certainly is Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia, the place where the largest massacre after the Second World War executed by military personnel took its course.
Obituary by Gavin Plumley and Entartete Musik, 2011
So Austria’s Posthabsburg Stress Disorder syndrome is over…?
Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, Munkácsi
exhibition @ Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Sackler Wing of Galleries
30 June—2 October 2011
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