For nearly a year, the streets of Tbilisi have been bringing together mothers and young people in the same fight: for a European and free Georgia. Behind bars, on barricades or through letters, the two generations have formed a larger family, united in resistance against an illiberal regime.
By the age of 22, Mires Peniushkevych has already staged more than 15 theatre productions in Ukrainian cities where theatres still operate. None of them is about escaping into parallel realities or simply entertaining audiences. They speak of about crimes against humanity – war, Nazism, the Holocaust, and brutal repression. Not everyone is happy about that.
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.
The intimacy coordinator profession was born out of the #MeToo movement and has become essential on film sets, to make sure actors feel emotionally safe. Vlad Troncea, a Romanian actor and dancer with experience both in London and in Romania, talks about his work — which, despite some stereotypes, is not about being the “sex police”.
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.
After the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Danube Delta habitat became threatened by the war and the increased naval traffic it brought to the region. This is the story of that impact, but also of the solutions that people on both the Ukrainian and Romanian sides of the Delta are working on to protect this area.
Bucharest Housing Stories explains the business of living in the capital, from the ghetto to luxury villas, via documentaries and anthropological research.
A Romanian journalist and a Ukrainian anthropologist compare and contrast notes on two different (yet at times strikingly similar) Ukraine Independence Day events in Romania's capital.
A Frenchman with a penchant for vampires invented a university and a gold medal, with which he tricked institutions, publications, and important intellectuals.
How politics and religion intersect in the Romanian Christian-Conservative community from Phoenix, Arizona.
I wanted to learn more about one of the greatest stage and screen actors in post-communist Romania.
In February 2018 I headed over the Atlantic to meet John Oliver. What I talked to him about, who’s the Brit who changed the way we watch the news and how we can (can we?) bring order to the chaos around us—find out next.
“Sometimes we are the only witnesses”, Rukmini says. “Bearing witness to these events is important. If not, it’s as if they never happened.”
For two years, a young journalist and photographer has been traveling to all the pain points on the map of Ukraine to show us the war that's unfurling in her home country.
Put together by 16 Gen Z artists from Romania, with the support of 8 more experienced mentors, the contemporary art exhibition Brain Bloom (March 8, 2026 – April 10, 2026, Atelierele Malmaison, Bucharest) invites visitors to explore how identity is rewritten when memory transcends corporeal boundaries.