This new three-match series brings the cream of Serbian rugby league to the top... of an empty stadium.

Prior to the 1980s, the Australian rugby league interstate representative series between New South Wales and Queensland saw players represent the state where their current club was based. This meant that, as Queensland produced top quality players but had much poorer clubs than the rich Sydney teams, many native Queenslanders would be forced to pull on the blue NSW jersey and compete against the maroon QLD shirt of their homeland.

Queensland's frustration led to the birth of the State of Origin concept in 1980, which pitted "state against state", but also "mate against mate", with players from the same rich Sydney clubs competing against one another in a ferocious contest over three 80-minute battles.

The Resolution

Not everyone makes a New Year’s resolution – except maybe as a joke. The Resolution is a promise made to yourself, the universe, and anyone standing near enough to hear and bored enough to listen, about something you would like to do differently in the year to come.

... dragi šefe, svi ovi građani odoše tamo na ulicu kod filozofskog ... izgleda da ova vaša namama sa vitaminskom gmo naprednom šargarepom nije više toliko u fazonu ... pa da li da menjamo povrće ... 

Tadija Janičić: Bajke za nevaljalu decu (slike i skulpture)

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Otvaranje: četvrtak, 8. maj 19h
Kustos izložbe: Nebojša Milenković
Trajanje izložbe: 8. maj - 1. jun 2014.

 I pored brojnih tehnoloških otkrića i pronalazaka smišljenih da mu olakšaju svakodnevno funkcionisanje - čovek današnjice deluje nesigurnije no ikad u svojoj novijoj povesti.

Ispražnjena značenja i velike ideje (koje su u međuvremenu potrošile svoje pokretačke potencijale) njegov život svele su na svakodnevni napor prevazilaženja zjapa koji stoji između potreba i mogućnosti - odnosno ispražnjenosti unutrašnjih i neselektivne prenatrpanosti spoljašnjih svetova i sadržaja. Kriza vremena u kom živimo prevashodno je kriza ideja i ona svakako nije zaobišla ni umetnost. Šta, dakle, u takvoj konstelaciji ostaje kao moguća (poželjna) strategija umetniku/umetnosti našeg vremena? Da li je to davanje odgovora na ionako konfuzna i do kraja ne uvek sasvim lako/jasno dokučiva i čitljiva pitanja - ili, moguće, pokušaj da se pomenuta potraga artikuliše nastojanjem da se praznina o kojoj je reč: omeđi, artikuliše, dokuči, ograniči, savlada, prevaziđe, relativizuje, ignoriše, ironiše…

Slikar Tadija Janičić odlučio se, promišljeno, za ovaj drugi pristup.

Antidoping kontrole nikada nije bilo u umetnosti. Da jeste, mnogi stvaraoci umetničkih dela bi bili doživotno diskvalifikovani, a njihova dela izbrisana iz istorije umetnosti. Čitajući autobiografiju Erika Kleptona, odlučio sam da za ovaj Nišville angažujem njegovog super bubnjara iz zlatnog doba grupa Cream i Blind Faith - Džindžera Bejkera, između ostalog i zbog saveta datog tada Eriku Kleptonu da ne bi trebalo toliko da se drogira! Valjda je Džindžer, tada možda i veći zavisnik od Kleptona...

Prompted by popular demand, this is an explanatory post aimed at shedding light, as succinctly as possible, on the differences between the various types of rugby, but principally ‘Union’ and ‘League’.

You may want to read it in instalments! 

By the early 18th century various forms of ‘football’ were being played across the British Isles, with differing local rules blah blah. Around 1870 the Rugby School in the town of Rugby became the first to write down its rules, which allowed it to spread and gain prominence.

With the exception of the ubiquitous 'soccer',