Archive for February, 2012
“Naked Glory”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, exhibition, Great Britain, Lucian Freud, painting on 15 February 2012 by delclem“Heartless” Balkan comics
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Canada, comics, Nina Bunjevac, yugoslavia on 14 February 2012 by delclem
Nina Bunjevac “was born in Toronto, but raised in Yugoslavia, only to be back in Canada when she was sixteen, where she graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design. (…) Her chain-smoking, slightly alcoholic and manically depressed character Zorka may just be today’s ultimate antiheroine. A Balkan immigrant in the Brave New World, working in that same meat factory for the last twenty years, tormented by family constraints and her own secrete desires… we simply can’t get enough of her.” >article (c) Bturn, 2012 (reblogged) Continue reading
In the lands of clichés and money?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Angelina Jolie, bosnia-hercegovina, Bosnian War, film, Hollywood, review, USA on 13 February 2012 by delclemIs Angelina Jolie’s first film as a director a revival of “tribalistic” Balkan clichés – or more? On verra… The LA TIMES is quite positive in their review.
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1913, Austria, cartoon, Vienna on 12 February 2012 by delclem
(c) THE GUARDIAN, 2012
The Hipster in the Mirror
Posted in Uncategorized on 10 February 2012 by delclem
The sociology of a
globalized lifestyle model.
Essay by Mark Greif.
Illustration by Jennifer Daniel.
(c) NEW YORK TIMES, 2010
Wisława Szymborska 1923-2012
Posted in Uncategorized on 9 February 2012 by delclem
The Nobel Prize Laureate in 2009 (photo: Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty).
The texts of the “Mozart of poetry” were “often humorous descriptions of
serious or delicate situations.”
Obituary (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2012
Museum boom in Kraków
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, aviation, history, museum, Poland on 8 February 2012 by delclem
“Three museums have recently opened in Kraków that will be of interest to aviation, history and art enthusiasts. The city is rediscovering many of the things that were suppressed or deliberately ignored under the Communists, including contemporary art.” >Article (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
Gesamtkunstwerk in Vienna & London
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, Austria, exhibition, Gesamtkunstwerk, Vienna on 5 February 2012 by delclem
“The 21er Haus, a museum which opened in Vienna last November, is dedicating its second exhibition to the utopia of the “total work of art”; this aims at inspiring discourse.” Article (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
WW2 Eyewitnesses from the Weinviertel
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, history, National Socialsm, Second World War, Soviet Union, Weinviertel on 4 February 2012 by delclem
“In the new documentary by Simon Wieland Heil Hitler – Die Russen kommen (‘Heil Hitler – The Russians Are Coming’) eyewitnesses recount their individual stories under the swastika and Soviet star. Following a successful road tour through the Weinviertel in Lower Austria, the film will be on general release in Austria from 27 January.” Article (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
Slavoj Žižek’s jokes
Posted in Uncategorized with tags humor, jokes, philosophy, Slavoj Žižek, Slovenia on 3 February 2012 by delclem
“His ascent to cultural superstardom has been fuelled by his comic talent, but jokes are a serious business for Slavoj Žižek“. Article (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2012
delirium clemens 