A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Izložba Gordane Tomić u galeriji “Agora” na Menhetnu

Naša talentovana slikarka savremene umetnosti, Gordana Tomić, održala je samostalnu izložbu pod nazivom “Za Beograd pre Njujorka”, u galeriji Singidunum od 6. do 14. marta 2014. godine. Svoja dela ova umetnica predstavila je prvo beogradskoj publici nakon čega sledi izložba u Njujorku, od 5 – 25. jula ove godine. Samostalna izložba u galeriji Singidunum je i svojevrsna najava izložbe u Njujorku, a upravo je ova činjenica postala lajtmotiv izložbe „Za Beograd pre Njujorka“. Radovi slikarke Gordane Tomić, koju na svetskoj sceni savremene umetnosti zastupa njujorška galerija “Agora”, obuhvataju tri ciklusa: ciklus apstrakcija „Tragovi složenih iskušenja“, ciklus apstraktnih aktova „Osvajajući potreti u strasti“ i ciklus apstraktnih pejzaža „Chicago“. Domaća javnost imala je priliku da se na izložbi, u galeriji Singidunum, upozna sa delom opusa iz ciklusa apstrakcija pod nazivom “Tragovi složenih iskušenja”. Na svečanosti povodom otvaranja izložbe, o njenom značaju za savremenu srpsku umetnost, govorio je Zdravko Vučinić, naš istaknuti kritičar i istoričar umetnosti – recenzent kataloga izložbe „Tragovi složenih iskušenja“, Maja Škaljac Stanošević, kustos galerije Singidunum i Tijana Trbović, zamenik umetničkog direktora galerije Prima.

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Nakon izložbe u Beogradu, slikarka će svojim radovima na izložbi u galeriji “Agora” na Menhetnu, simbolično preneti duh Beograda u autentičnu globalnu metropolu, Njujork. Galerija “Agora” se nalazi na respektabilnom šestom mestu globalne mape galerija specijalizovanih za savremenu umetnost i biće zvanični zastupnik Gordane Tomić na medjunarodnoj sceni do kraja 2015. godine. Vredi zabeležiti da će Gordana Tomić biti prva slikaraka sa naših prostora koja će održati izložbu u ovoj galeriji. "Za ovog umetnika lepota umetnosti je izražena u fizici, emocijama i u življenju sada-i-ovde. Kroz jarke boje i često elementarne i amorfne konstrukcije, Tomićeva grabi izvanredne, smislene momente koji definišu njen utisak sveta. Njene slike proširuju naš pogled na svet naglašavajući stalno menjanje pejzaža iskustava u nama." - Citat kriticara Joyce Asper, New York.

Izložba u Njujorku pod nazivom "Cadences of Color", biće svečano otvorena 10. jula od 6 - 8 pm, i trajaće do 25. jula 2014.

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Tom Jurich

By Sandi Radoja

[This article originally appeared in the American Srbobran, April 5, 2017]

LOUISVILLE, KY – On an unseasonably hot February day, Tom Jurich welcomed us to his third floor office on the campus of the University of Louisville. We were 2-1/2 hours early, but his door swung open wide despite our inability to jump time zones correctly.

Born and raised in Southern California, Tom Jurich of SNF Lodge #95-Lovcen-Los Angeles, was apologetic for the heat as if it was his fault. “We don’t turn the air conditioning on this early,” he said, an explanation we already heard from his receptionist who called her desktop fan her “new BFF.” We were immediately at ease, and the friendliness of the entire office far outweighed the heat.

It was Mercia Martich of Northridge, California, who sent us in the direction of the Tom Jurich story initially. She said he was a SNF member and someone to hoot about, adding, “He is not only successful, but a fine gentleman and a family man, too.”

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My Brother's Keeper

by Fr. Radovan Bigovic

Rare are the books of Orthodox Christian authors that deal with the subject of politics in a comprehensive way. It is taken for granted that politics has to do with the secularized (legal) protection of human rights (a reproduction of the philosophy of the Enlightenment), within the political system of so-called "representative democracy", which is limited mostly to social utility or to the conventional rules of human relations. Most Christians look at politics and democracy as unrelated with their experience of the Church herself, which abides both in history and in the Kingdom, the eschaton. Today, the commercialization of politics—its submission to the laws of publicity and the brainwashing of the masses—has literally abolished the "representative" parliamentary system. So, why bother with politics when every citizen of so-called developed societies has a direct everyday experience of the rapid decline and alienation of the fundamental aspects of modernity?

In the Orthodox milieu, Christos Yannaras has highlighted the conception of the social and political event that is borne by the Orthodox ecclesiastical tradition, which entails a personalistic (assumes an infinite value of the human person as opposed to Western utilitarian individualism) and relational approach. Fr Radovan Bigovic follows this approach. In this book, the reader will find a faithful engagement with the liturgical and patristic traditions, with contemporary thinkers, Orthodox and non-Orthodox, all in conversation with political science and philosophy. As an excellent Orthodox theologian and a proponent of dialogue, rooted in the catholic (holistic) being of the Orthodox Church and of his Serbian people, Fr Radovan offers a methodology that encompasses the above-mentioned concerns and quests.