Belgrade, Serbia
The Art Fag City site has a long and detailed history of all the weird sculptures appearing in the Balkans lately. Highly recomended! See also previous Belgraded articles on some weird Serbian monument tributes.
After B92 ran a story on it, I’ve come to conclusion that this has got to be one of the least visible monuments in the world, which is even more accented by the fact that it’s not exactly small, and that it’s located in a busy street. It’s as if
The “Struggle” sculpture/fountain in Kalemegdan (“Borba” in Serbian) has an interesting history behind its creation. Simeon Roksandic, the sculptor, made one statue for the great Balkan exhibition in London, in 1907. During the transport to or from London, Roskandic received the news that the ship who was carrying the sculpture
All hail the next monument idea in Serbia – Belgrade rappers gathered around the hiphop forum Rad i Vizija are discussing the best place to honor Tupac Shakur, and so far Marinkova Bara seems like the best idea, because “there’s no place in Belgrade that looks more like a ghetto
This just in: Avram brings the news of Bob Marley monument to be put up in Banatski Sokolac, a town in north east Serbia. The monument will be uncovered on August 23rd during the music festival Rock Village. The monument, which is supposed to be the first monument to this
Some time ago I collected some articles about Srdjan Aleksic, around the time of his death anniversary, at the Serbian blog. You can read more about Srdjan in this article by Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, some excerpts: Srdjan Aleksic had sacrificed his own life to
Well, new monument suggestions in Serbia just keep appearing all of a sudden. After Bruce Lee monument in Mostar, BiH and Rocky Balboa monument initiative, another one comes from the municipality of Zitiste – a monument to Johnny Weissmuller, legendary swimmer of Austro-Hungarian descent, best known for his portrayal of
You probably think that I’m going to write about the film now. No, I haven’t seen it yet, but I plan to. Well, the 6th “Rocky” is not going to be the subject of this post, but another curiosity (are we getting used to them by now?) In case you
Something that we sadly haven’t had time to cover here at the Belgrade blog is Nikolai Tesla’s 150th anniversary celebration so this is our attempt to make up for this. Internationally, that is outside Serbia, monuments and statues have been unveiled such as the one within a stones throw of
Belgrade by night, as seen from space
I’m Serbian and I got the paper to prove it
How to name your bridge
Bojana Stamenov – she’s got talent
Proper Serbia promo video – “Soulfood Serbia”
