Hello! I’m Adriana and I try to update myself and the readers of Metrolic with technological gadgets. Beside getting informed, I like reading, hiking and listening to music. I also enjoy dancing and foreign languages.
Posted in: Entertainment by Adriana Stanciu | October 5th 2010 | no comments
Endhiran - The Robot is a success at the US/UK box office, during the three days following its release on October 1st reaching a RS of 95 crores obtained from its three versions in the first weekend only. Adding the sales of tickets from abroad, the RS reaches a total of 100 [...]
Posted in: Entertainment by Adriana Stanciu | October 5th 2010 | no comments
The news is official and it has been released today. The new Supermen has chosen its director in the person of Zack Snyder, who competed with Darren Aronofsky, Ben Affleck, Matt Reeves and Tony Scott. But the director of Watchmen and 300 is the winner of the future movie [...]
Posted in: Entertainment by Adriana Stanciu | October 5th 2010 | no comments
Released on October 1 this year, The Social Network is a movie that shows what lies behind Facebook, one of the most known and used social networks. It is a movie about the problems generated by this social network in the private life of Mark Zuckerberg, a movie whose motto [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | October 4th 2010 | no comments
Every community has its own way of bringing their culture and art to life, but there are so many communities that use festivals to revive art and bring the artists and the viewers close together. The same happens with those who live in Pasadena and who are going to enjoy a [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | October 4th 2010 | no comments
This weekend the 2nd Annual Inner Harbor Art Festival returns to downtown Baltimore. The festival is a celebration of the community and will feature an eclectic mix of the country's artists as well as Baltimore's talents in the field of fine art. During the two days of the [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | October 4th 2010 | no comments
Tomorrow, October 5, 2010, Tate Britain will start running the Turner Prize 2010 exhibition until 3 January 2011. The four shortlisted artists will display their works for the public to be able to see what else is new in the British contemporary art. The four artists are: Dexter Dalwood, [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | October 1st 2010 | no comments
Music is one of the arts that people get in contact with every day. Either that they listen to classical music or to contemporary music, traditional or electronic, or to any other type of music they like, music is that form of art which succeeds in getting to the listener’s [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | October 1st 2010 | no comments
After the fifth annual Tennessee William Theater Festival last week, Provincetown Theater is now preparing for the 6th annual Dance Festival, which will bring on stage both old and new friends, in two different nights: October 22 and 23, 2010. The Companies that will perform [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | October 1st 2010 | no comments
The Carmel Art and Film Festival is one of the festivals that are expected by film lovers and filmmakers to happen every year. The festival is one that successfully combines visual art exhibitions with film screening and at the same time with discussion panels about [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | September 30th 2010 | no comments
When I think about dancing I think about performers that will move around, spin, freeze, elegantly turn and jump so as to give the impression they are flying. But when performers literally bring dance to new heights, I cannot do anything else but wonder how does this feel. Project [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | September 30th 2010 | no comments
Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York has opened its doors today for a new exhibition that will run through the end of October, 2010. The exhibition is entitled 'Monochromes' and it represents a special project with the artist Robert Zungu. The exhibition is a showcase of [...]
Posted in: Editorials by Adriana Stanciu | September 30th 2010 | no comments
The funny thing about art is that it can be made out of so different media and transmit emotions and the same time, that people do not know what to consider art and not any more. For instance, I would consider art those creations that use beautiful imagery and combinations [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | September 30th 2010 | no comments
The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, has assumed its role of telling America's story through individuals who have contributed to the shape of the country's culture, by portraying poets and visionaries, actors and activists whose lives are intertwined with [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | September 27th 2010 | no comments
John Ogburn (4 June 1925 - 13 January 2010), was an Australian artist whose work will be exhibited at Harrington Street Gallery as a tribute to his life as an artist. Born in St. Arnaud, Victoria, John Ogburn worked as an industrial research chemist between 1944 and [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | September 27th 2010 | no comments
Wayne Thiebaud is an American artist who is considered to pertain to the Pop Art Movement, as he is better known for his depictions of every day objects. Although some of the paintings include portraits, such as the drawing Two Girls at the Beach, and he has created some [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | September 25th 2010 | no comments
The ones who already know the work of David Noonan and feel attracted to it can experience once again those feelings of wonder and questioning that you get when you see his black and white pictures. David Kordansky Gallery hosts another exhibition of Noonan's work running through [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | September 25th 2010 | no comments
When the sky is falling, usually there is chaos and darkness and sadness. When the sky is falling nothing good seems to happen. But sometimes, is just seems to be like that, but in fact it isn't. When the sky is falling good things might also happen. Perhaps this is [...]
Posted in: Editorials by Adriana Stanciu | September 25th 2010 | no comments
I saw the trailer of the movie "Waiting for Superman" a few days ago, but I did not want to say anything at the moment. I just thought about it, and the more I thought about it and the more I read opinions about it, I realized this controversy it raised would never be [...]
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