Weekend calendar: New Year concert @ George Enescu Philharmonic, exhibitions, film screenings

The second weekend of the year comes with the option of visiting exhibitions, sampling the film offer, or attending a concert.

In Bucharest:

New Year concert @ George Enescu Philharmonic

January 8, 9

Vlad Vizireanu conducts the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra for a program of works by Gioachino Rossini, Camille Saint-Saens, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms, Pablo Sarasate, Johann Strauss II and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Violinist Remus Azoiței is the soloist. More details here.

Jean-Luc Godard focus @ Elvire Popesco Cinema

January 11

Le Mépris, the last film in the program dedicated to the giant of the French New Wave, is screened this weekend. More details here.

RomanIa- Identity Representation of Traditional Dress in Art

Until February 8

The exhibition, scheduled to open at the National Museum of Art of Romania (MNAR) on November 21, will showcase various depictions of the traditional Romanian blouse ia as captured in painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, installation, film, music, posters, and more. Among the works included in the exhibition are several by Henri Matisse, including the iconic La Blouse Roumaine, part of the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. More here and here.

Flying Carpets - Thomas Ruff & Transylvania & Anatolia

Until February 28

The exhibition “reveals the collision between tradition and modernity, between local and global, the fusion of seemingly irreconcilable values, so relevant to our hybrid present.” More details