culture

04.08.2021

Religion and beliefs leading to discrimination

Freedom of religion is one of the fundamental human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Freedom of religion is the right of everyone to choose, accept, and change their religion and beliefs. This is one of the …

30.07.2021

Truth Coming Out of Her Well

When the Lie puts on the Truth’s dress, and the naked Truth is thrown deep down in the earth—whom of the two would we choose and defend? Author: Sylvia Borissova A folktale tells that the Truth and the Lie met …

30.07.2021

Pietà and the beginning of creative individuality in art

How did a signature secretly placed on a sculpture at the end of the 15th century mark the individuality of today’s artists? Author: Sylvia Borissova Pietà (Italian: pity) is a theme in Christian art that depicts the Virgin Mary mourning …

29.07.2021

Liberty Leading the People (La Liberté guidant le peuple, 1830)

The picturesque image of Liberty leading the July Revolution in France Author: Sylvia Borissova Liberty Leading the People (La Liberté guidant le peuple) is a painting by the French Romantic artist Eugene Delacroix (1798—1863), dedicated to the July Revolution of …

29.07.2021

Life as an art form: Why not?

Living as Form—the platform for socially engaged arts and projects Author: Sylvia Borissova What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. …

29.07.2021

Cross-cultural wall of beads

How does the bas-relief sculpture by multi-genre artist Nick Cave connect two cultures? Author: Sylvia Borissova On the wall in the anteroom of the US Embassy in Dakar, there is a miraculously mounted monumental bas-relief sculpture—a conglomeration of thousands of …

05.01.2021

Article 27: Right to Participate in the Cultural Life of the Community.

Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests …