St John’s Eve night is approaching. Alongside the villagers gathering around the bonfire, drinking, singing, and jumping over the flames, there are also dances at the village club to the music of the local orchestra - conducted, incidentally, by Johannes Sooster. And of course young Meedi, only f
What is this philosophical, poetic line about? The power of circumstance — or the power of the human being?
Three years ago, the 90-year-old artist Boris Zhutovsky passed away. Tenno Sooster, Ülo Sooster’s son, called him “Boba,” as did other people close to him.
Were Ülo Sooster and Yuri Lotman personally acquainted? We do not have an answer to that question. But they certainly knew of one another.
“A good collection is like a river: once you step into it, you can’t tear yourself away…”
“Despite his great erudition and outstanding ability to theorize, Ülo was a genuine person of feeling - at times surprisingly tender and even sentimental. His greatest love was Hiiumaa, and especially the Pendi farm, whose enchantment seems to have accompanied him until his death.
“Before us is one of the greatest love stories in the world, told in the first person. But… Orpheus and Eurydice, Dante and Beatrice, Tristan and Isolde still somehow faltered before the merciless world - whereas Ülo and Lidia overcame it. A plot worthy of Hollywood…,” - wrote art critic Andrei
Who is a collector? What is their role in art? There are several aphoristic answers: “Collectors are the hidden architects of art.” Or: “Through the practice of collecting, one seeks to overcome the world’s fragmentation and chaos.” Or: “The figure of the collector is central in the history of ar
An open platform for new ideas. That is how the Tartu New Theatre describes itself - and with each production, time and again, it strives to live up to that name. This fully applies to the production Sooster’s School.
It is a well-known view that art—an artist’s own works—is the best monument to them.
Can you imagine a world without bridges? Those that connect opposite banks, and those that link countries and cultures, fields of knowledge and creativity—ultimately, the past and the future.
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