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What life looks like for one of the world's ten best young pianists.

Romania: a great reason for Brits to stay in the EU

Michael Bird

What will Brexit mean? That the successful political union between the unlikely brothers of Romania and the UK will suddenly vanish.

In Search of Lost Time on Facebook

I procrastinate because I feel like I can’t start anything good when I am not the world’s happiest woman. Surely, I will be one tomorrow. Tomorrow, everyone will be happy, there will be no wars, and the articles will write themselves.

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Tania Mouraud: ‘You cannot quit art’

Andra Matzal, George Popescu

We talked wit Tania Mouraud, in wich career can fit art for seven lives

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A Brain in an Art Museum

Andra Matzal, George Popescu, Sorina Vazelina

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

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Living in Bucharest: A How-to

Ioana Pelehatăi

Bucharest Housing Stories explains the business of living in the capital, from the ghetto to luxury villas, via documentaries and anthropological research.

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Cristian Mungiu: We’re a Country of Decent Folks Who Sidestep the Law

Luiza Vasiliu

Mungiu returns to Cannes with a film about an existential crisis.

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“We Built Rio de Janeiro on a Cemetery of Slaves”

Luiza Vasiliu

A writer is filming his Brasil.

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In Search of the Middle Class

Radu Ciorniciuc, Vlad Odobescu

What does it mean to be part of the Romanian middle class ? A team of anthropologists seeking answers.

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Romanian Society Was Dissolute

Andra Matzal

How to understand better the situation of the women in Romania nowadays from a book about the history of Wallachia written two centuries ago

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Cristi Puiu: I’m Not a Director

Răzvan Chiruță

Cristi Puiu's latest movie has just opened in the 2016 edition of the International Film Festival. Check out how shooting went down and what strange events happened.

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How’s Mihail Sebastian Doing in the UK?

Luiza Vasiliu

He's doing quite well, thank you very much. His interwar novel on the life of a young Jew was published in 2016 in the Modern Classics collection at Penguin.

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Adrian Ghenie: My Method Is Managing Failure

Luiza Vasiliu

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