In the late afternoon of 21st of December 1989, in Cugir, public institutions were burning to the ground. How did the smallest city to rise up in the Revolution defeat the established dictatorship in just one day?
People tired of the din of big city life go to live in an alternative community in Romania’s Apuseni Mountains. Alongside the quiet of meditation, they are served conspiracy theories.
Little was known about Adrian Ghenie until recently: along with Mihai Pop, he founded Plan B Gallery, famous for putting Cluj on the international art map with a new generation of artists
We spoke with actress Ilinca Manolache about the limits of theater and "Love Island", society and TikTok, misogyny and trivialized violence, but also about her role in Radu Jude's latest film, "Don't Expect Too Much From the End of the World".
How the Romanian state and I, together and in turn, botched the HPV vaccine.
I have no clear ambitions in life, I am convinced that the idea of success is relative and that the formulas for happiness are narrow. Whence, however, the compulsive need for more and better, which grinds me down, but also exalts me? And what is its price?
We spoke with photojournalist Vadim Ghirda about good and evil, disillusionment and hope, beauty and fear. About journalism and its increasingly complicated relationship with the truth, about the unsung heroes who make the work of war correspondents possible. About the baggage of suffering he has amassed in the 34 years that he has spent working at the heart of conflicts all over the world.
I tried to find out what happens in my brain when I look at a painting.So I found out that artists would be the first neuroscientists
The pandemic increases the risk of slave exploitation for agricultural workers - Romanians and Bulgarians are the most exposed. We spoke to workers, activists and authorities across the UK to understand the real price of food.
Do you know who Alexandru Potocean is? He’s one of the most respected young Romanian actors. We sat down for beers and I wrote his story.
Over the course of two weeks, I met with some of my favorite Icelandic artists to learn what makes up the place’s spirit and where the appetite for life comes from in darkness.
Why do we close our eyes to the facts when we’re told a beautiful story about touring the world on foot, in traditional sandals?
The former members are accusing Adi de la Brad of sexual abuse, emotional abuse, exploitation through labor, being constrained against seeing a doctor, declaring him their children’s father, and preempting them from going to school.
A pro-life movement, supported by the US and funded by local money, is developing in Romania.
I met in London with the team of "The Night Of", the new HBO series.
An Irish writer follows the history of Trajan's Column along the ideological waves which have shaped the idea that Romanians are a Latin people, which must be „purified” at all costs.
For the past decade, Forensic Architecture have been conducting extensive investigations from around the world, with and on behalf of individuals or communities directly affected by conflict, police forces, or border regimes.
A discussion with an American artist settled in Romania, about his favorite sculptures in Bucharest, about the life he made here, but also about his book, written from the perspective of a fictional Romanian art historian.
An hour-long talk with one of the mind-blowing band of our times, about art as work, ageing, hope and the works of music in troubled times.
3 questions about the world of photo reportage and the ethical approach to photography, from 8 pros.
A 12-year-old Bucharest student resorted to cutting because of her classmates. Even though they should have intervened, the teachers had no idea what to do. Bullying still is an unknown phenomenon to many of Romania’s schools.
Instead of labels and displays, the Museum of the Romanian Peasant asks the visitor to seek and uncoil the meanings of objects on their own.
Romanian peasant, Orthodox Christian and Gay. Cristi Marcu, a cantor for 20 years at the church, could check all three boxes before learning he must give up one of them.
Bucharest Housing Stories explains the business of living in the capital, from the ghetto to luxury villas, via documentaries and anthropological research.