“Ways have been found, in a unique way, to finance each sector in culture the wrong way. Artists are now working as if they are in a factory, and instead of forming society’s taste, they are forced to cater to this taste so as to earn more money,” caretaker Minister of Culture, conductor Nayden Todorov said in an interview with bTV. “The number of people engaged in every sphere of culture has been going down. If we want culture to exist in 20 years’ time we need to start working now. It is too late but we can at least salvage something,” Minister Todorov said. “There is no regulatory framework regarding what is happening to the cultural values outside the territory of the country,” Nayden Todorov said further. I do not have an answer to the question would I accept if I was invited to be minister of culture again, Nayden Todorov said further.
Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov will receive the Order of Art and Letters - Knight degree, at a ceremony this evening at the residence of the French ambassador in Sofia. In this way, the country pays tribute to an outstanding author and European..
He is an artist as well as a philosopher. He likes to tell stories in colours, but also listen to them in melodies. He is Rumen Statkov and just a few days ago, on October 17, he presented his latest exhibition entitled "Dance" at the Nirvana gallery in..
A writer, a hero from the Second World War, an aviator, a journalist, a film director and a diplomat - the personality of Romain Gary (1914-1980) is multi-layered and enigmatic. And Bulgaria occupies a special place in the life and work of one of the..
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