If you still haven't decided what you're doing for 1st May, and Mamaia is not on your list of your favourite places, then we recommend a trip to Amsterdam, where until 13th May you'll be able to see an extraordinary exhibition: The Printed Book: A Visual History. You'll find some of the most spectacular books in the history of western printing going back over five hundred years: from Elegantiae linguae Latinae, printed by Nicolas Jenson in Venice in 1471 (which is famous on account of the [...]

Last autumn a great exhibition opened in Bucharest: The Artist and the Power, an invaluable panoramic view of Romanian contemporary art, with over 600 of paintings from 1950 to 1990. We, at Atelierul de grafică, prepared the catalogue for it. It was not an easy task: the book had to do justice to the curators' vision for the exhibition, and at the same time be a sort of encyclopaedia of Romanian artists, as many of the works had never been reproduced in print before. It took us two [...]