N215 (44) Tuesday, March 15th, 2005
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Natasha Warcholak
Baku Babi Braves Baratashvili
Babi Badaloff, a Baku-based artist, should have heeded the ill omen when on the morning of December 3 he left his house earlier than planned to pamper himself with a . . .
Society
Natasha Warcholak
BACK IN FIVE, Said the Georgian Man, and Disappeared
Baku, capital of the neighboring country of Azerbaijan, can easily be reached by train. However, my preference for air travel caused me to fly instead. They say you only live . . .
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Natasha Warcholak
All Greek in Turkey
The route Istanbul-Tbilisi is served by Turkish Airlines, and is quite decent. I left the Georgian capital with an open return ticket intending to return around mid January. However, when . . .
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Natasha Warcholak
ATTITUDE ARTIST
Philosophy and art - always a good combination - offer boundless context for deep philosophizing, where chronic failure to come to terms with reality is not uncommon. Once the cycle . . .
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NEW STRIKES
The winds of change that . . .
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In Russia We Trust
One of my all-time favorite books is Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” and I have always dreamt of becoming Alice even for a day. After spending two years in . . .
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Natasha Warcholak
SCANDAL COMES IN HANDY
The Georgian Academy of Fine Arts is embracing a new Western style of education in which, as Vice-Rector Nino Gedevanishili stresses, master classes will be given special importance as vital . . .
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Natasha Warcholak
Soul to Soul with the Georgian House
ARCI was founded sixteen years ago a simple architecture company, but over the years it has expanded into project and construction management. Two years ago, when Nana Meparishvili joined the . . .
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Natasha Warcholak
Bridge Culture
An exhibition called “Tbilisi We Have Lost” at the ARCI gallery at 21 Abuladze Street is comprised of a series of images from Tbilisi’s past. On display are real and . . .
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Natasha Warcholak
Building Elegance
ARCI, a Vake-based architecture company, is the first Tbilisi real estate agency to welcome private investments and general market trends. Founded in 1989, ARCI was the first pioneer in Georgia’s . . .
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Natasha Warcholak
ART - FULL SPEED AHEAD!!
Moscow, the Russian conglomerate that’s been attracting more and more attention, has now surprised us with the First International Biennale of Contemporary Visual Art. On this occasion, it happened to . . .
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Natasha Warcholak
CAUCUSIAN PATCHWORK
Religion, sex, ethnicity and creed are all potentials for conflict. The list goes on. Conflicts usually develop their own lives and happy endings are rare, especially in a place like . . .
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Natasha Warcholak
Dmanisi Hominid Helps Georgia
Georgia has often been in the news over the past few years, but recent scientific discoveries have happily eclipsed the political tensions tormenting the country. The discoveries made in Dmanisi . . .
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Natasha Warcholak
BACK TO ROOTS WITH RUSSIAN DAYS
Russian Culture Days in Tbilisi have a long history, but this is something more recent. Our story dates back to autumn last year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin was expected . . .
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Natasha Warcholak
ALL STARS
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
The Tbilisi Opera House has been busy recently. On Monday, April 18, it hosted the official opening of the Days of Russian Culture in Georgia; Wednesday, April 20, saw a . . .
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Natasha Warcholak
Russian Culture Days – A Good Beginning
The grandiose project of Russian Culture Days, which opened Monday, April 18 and ran through April 23, has seen its fair share of Russian and Georgian cultural celebrities so far. . . .
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Natasha Warcholak
EVEN IF A BIT SLOWER, IT’S NOT A CRIME
Rehearsals are always entertaining. Those ephemeral moments when you feel you are a part of something very important happening in front of your eyes make you feel closer to the . . .
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Natasha Warcholak
AN APPLE, ACCORDING TO CEZANNE
The process of cultural development is all about certain people and places with their own pace and color. In Georgia, “our basic strategy is to maintain our heritage, and by . . .