Romania’s culture minister must explain policies
Romania’s Culture Minister Raluca Turcan should appear before the Culture Committee in parliament’s lower house and explain recent intiatives of the government concerning the cultural sector. The call on Thursday belongs to Save Romania Union (USR), a center-right opposition party in parliament. The party believes that planned merger, abolition, transfer or funding cuts for public cultural institutions would force some museums to close their doors. “Plans designed to put some cultural departments under the county counsils’ control would damage the country’s cultural heritage”, USR MP Iulian Bulai said in a statement. Romania’s Culture Minister Raluca Turcan confirmed her presence before the special committee on September 4, when parliament was expected to open its session.
Romania under renewed heat wave
Recent heat wave in Romania will persist for at least another day, according to the country’s IMF. Southern counties of Teleorman, Giurgiu, Călărași, Ialomița, Brăila, Constanța, Ilfov and the capital Bucharest will be most affected. The southern county of Olt is also under an orange code starting tomorrow. Heat waves persisted in Romania through August as officials warned of health risks. Italy, Spain and Greece have already faced unrelenting heat for days, but the European Space Agency has warned that the heat wave is only just beginning. In Romania, absolute maximum temperature was 44.5 grades Celsius, recorded in the eastern county of Brăila in 1951.
Brancusi’s ‘The Kiss’ arrives in Bucharest
The Kiss, a sculpture of Constantin Brancusi, one of Romania’s most famous artists around the world, arrived in the capital Bucharest pn Monday, and it will stay there on display until August 30. Coming from the Art Museum in the Romanian southern city of Craiova, The Kiss is presented as part of the Art Safari Love edition on Lipscani Street in Bucharest’s Old City center. The event marks a premiere for both Art Safari and the capital city. A version of the Kiss from 1910 serves as a gravestone in the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris, France, while another version is hosted by the Philadelpphia Museum of Art, USA.
Alexandru Danga
