Showing posts with label Bulgarian galleries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bulgarian galleries. Show all posts
Saturday, December 13, 2014

Access to National Galleries

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I’ve been a bit sniffy in the past about Sofia’s National Gallery of Art – so let me take my hat off to them for their display of digital ...
Monday, November 12, 2012

Last sanctuaries of originality

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In the increasingly homoegenised world in which we sadly now exist, second-hand bookshops and private art galleries are the last sanctu...
Sunday, November 11, 2012

New painters - and wine

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I’m not the only one casting my mind back to the murderous behaviour from which this part of the world has suffered in the past century...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Private collections

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A mixed experience at the recently re-opened National Gallery of Art here in Sofia. It had been closed for refurbishment for almost a y...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

Fine example of 1980s art

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Hats off (again!) to Vihra Pesheva of Astry Gallery here who has mounted another wonderful celebration of an older Bulgarian artist. This t...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

An interesting conversation in Dobrich

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Dobrich in some 30 kilomtres inland from Balchik and has the look and feel of a town double its official size of 93,000 citizens. Its centra...
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Monday, March 19, 2012

Artists' Paradise

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Bulgaria's North-East (like most of its other extremities) is pretty poor. It has known better days. The Black Sea was like a mill pond...
Friday, March 16, 2012

setting priorities in municipal services

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Razgrad's Ivan Petrov Gallery  proved worth the wait. Housed in a superb, modernised and specially-designed building (with EC funding) i...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

A painting privilege in Shumen

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Another workshop at Targovishte – and the morning swim and exercise we have now started in Sofia (just round the corner in at Rodina Hotel...
Friday, March 9, 2012

Sliven's excellent galleries

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Sliven, with 100,000 inhabitants, is half the size of neighbouring Stara Zagora; also has a dramatic location with mountains rising sheer fr...

A good display in Stara Zagora

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Stara Zagora was reached in exactly 3 hours – along an excellent motorway which, however, peters out at that point. It has a superb location...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Neglect of Bulgarian painting patrimony

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We reached Razgrad via a quiet country road from Targovishte with the sparkling snow fading as we hit the vineyards. Razgrad is a fairly ...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Sofia City Gallery scores again!

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The Sofia City Art Gallery has put together another excellent exhibition – this time to honour the memory of the Bulgarian Association of...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Living without the luxuries

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Monday early saw me at the Military hospital again – this time to a floor so munificent it must have been designed for the Generals and Adm...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Salute to the local municipal galleries

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Thursday I spent on a very pleasant drive from Velingrad in the Rhodope mountains to Bucharest (500 kms) – first through the gorge I spoke ...
Sunday, February 6, 2011

In praise of Sofia

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One of my readers was shocked that I was contemplating „leaving Romania” – if only for an 18 month project in Serbia or Bulgaria. As long a...
Monday, August 2, 2010

patrimony in Bulgaria and Romania

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One of my links is with Valentin Mandache's website which is a glorious one-man campaign celebrating and trying to protect Romanian...
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