Κατηγορία: dim/art in english
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Wedding night
Today, March 8 2017, a good old feminist joke happened to pop out of our memory. We dedicate it to all those real macho men out there who honor their gender, making it necessary for the world to keep celebrating an International Women’s Day. It goes like this: * * * Sakis is a real…
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Cy Twombly: The Deconstruction of Painting through Gesture
—by Dorothea Konteletzidou*— About his work, which has been acclaimed since 1979, Cy Twombly offers little information, admitting that he intentionally ascribes a mysterious power to certain words and images. Influenced by American Abstract Expressionism and Old Word past, the artist came by way of initial process of exploration and investigation to adopt a plastic sensibility…
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Shakespeare Explains the 2016 Election
—by Stephen Greenblatt*— In the early 1590s, Shakespeare sat down to write a play that addressed a problem: How could a great country wind up being governed by a sociopath? The problem was not England’s, where a woman of exceptional intelligence and stamina had been on the throne for more than 30 years, but it…
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«Populism, clientelism and corruption often work in sequence»
Dimitri Sotiropoulos, associate professor at the University of Athens and visiting professor at the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies at Sciences Po, analyses the causes of the crisis of democracy in Greece. Interview by Juliette Seban, Administrative Director of LIEPP. * * * In your view, what are the main reasons for the crisis of democracy…
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Peaceful troubadour
— by Andrea Schroth— Yesterday I was preoccupied when I heard the news that Bob Dylan was elected Nobel Laureate. I was worrying that writers might take this as some sort of insult to their craft – even though poetry was originally sung in verse and accompanied by a musical instrument. If I’m not mistaken,…
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The Times They Are a-Changin’
And, yes, it happened. It did. Pursuing further on the somewhat “alternative” course that begun last year with Svetlana Alexievich’s Nobel for Literature, the Swedish Academy made an even greater leap forward: as of today, Bob Dylan is a Nobel Laureate. A long expected vindication for his fans (like us) – with no “buts”, none…
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The tragedy of the fake language
Brutality, in the form of a lack of scruples toward the enemy and the enemy’s symbols, is a basic ingredient in the cult of radical movements —by Nicolas Sevastakis | Translated from greek by Margarita Zachariadou— The torching of Marfin* ought to be regarded as the incident that compacts an era’s political nihilism. This political…
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No man is an island
Wolfgang Tillmans speaks up about the British referrendum and actively supports the pro-EU campaign. Wolfgang Tillmans, one of the most important artistic photographers of his generation, was born in Germany in 1968. Since 1995 he is based in London (actually, in London and Berlin). He is the first non British artist to recieve the Turner Prize…
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Bookcrossing Anniversary Convention: Athens, 2016
—Editing-Preface: Natassa Syllignaki | Translated from greek by Alexandra Dendia— From 22 to 24 April 2016, worldwide bookcrossing community’s heart was beating in Athens. It was the Anniversary Bookcrossing Convention, a celebration of friendship, sharing and love of books. For those who don’t know what bookcrossing is, in the Bookcrossing Travel Guide (for Greeks) our…
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Moria Detention Center
—by Leonidas Paliakos | translated from greek by G.K.— Two years ago, at the detention Center in Moria, Lesvos, we were faced with the logic of “concentration camps” and Auschwitz. We were frightened by the deficient prefab buildings, the high walls and the policemen guarding barred doors. Above all, we were frightened by the barbed…
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10 Weird and Wonderful Things Found Inside Old Books
—by Shan Williams— If you’re like me and you just cannot get home before sampling your latest literary purchase, you will have undoubtedly used anything to hand as a bookmark. I’ve used receipts, bus tickets, tissues (clean of course), salt or sugar sachets and labels from new clothes among other less desirable and definitely less shareable…
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