The National Gallery of Art in Vilnius is proud to announce the opening of two international exhibitions related to Soviet-era art, architecture and design in the 1960s and 1970s: Modernisation. Baltic Art, Architecture and Design in the 1960s–1970s and Our Metamorphic Futures. Design, Technical Aesthetics and Experimental Architecture in the Soviet Union, 1960–1980 9 December 2011 – 12 February 2012 Exhibition opening: Friday, 9 December 2011, 6 …
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Reading George Friedman geopolitical prognosis for the nearest 10 and 100 years… Speaking about year 2020 Friedman logically explains why Russia needs to occupy Baltic States once again; why the troops of Russia in the nearest decade will be at the borders of Baltic states and Poland (in the territory of Belarus), why Germany and France will be ready to betray Baltic States once again while not …
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It may have been August, because evenings were still balmy and you could sit in the garden till late. It may have been three years ago, when the economic crisis that shook up the order of things in the world was still just looming on the horizon and was not yet much spoken of in Latvia. It was then that a conversation one evening led to the …
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In order to release a creative potential of the crisis-hit groups and grass-root society, an activity to promote accessible and people-friendly actions strongly related to culture and art – a kind of creative incubator has been created in Riga. The new initiative by the name of “Brigade” over the course of little less than a year has turned into a programme which selects, by the means of …
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