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మేకల అందాల పోటీల్లో విజేత 'మార్తా'
ఉక్రెయిన్లో అందాల పోటీలు నిర్వహించారు. మెరిసే దుస్తులు, విభిన్న అలంకరణలతో కంటెస్టెంట్లు అదరగొట్టారు. ఇంతకీ ఆ పోటీలు ఎవరికో తెలుసా? మేకలకు.
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Published : Aug 13, 2019, 5:27 PM IST
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మేకల అందాల పోటీల్లో విజేత 'మార్తా'
మేకల అందాల పోటీల్లో విజేత 'మార్తా' ఉక్రెయిన్లోని కొజోవా పట్టణంలో అందాల పోటీలు జరిగాయి. పాల్గొన్నది ఎవరో తెలుసా...? మేకలు. వెలుగుజిలుగుల ఎంబ్రాయిడరీ చొక్కాలు, స్కర్టులు, రకరకాల అలంకరణలతో హొయలొలుకుతూ పోటీలో పాల్గొన్నాయి మేకలు. కొజోవా అంటే మేకల పట్టణం. ఇక్కడ నివాసం ఉండే 10 వేల మంది... మేకలను గౌరవప్రదంగా చూస్తారు. వాటి కోసం సంవత్సరంలో ఒకరోజు ఇలా పండుగ నిర్వహిస్తారు.
ఇక్కడ జరిగే అందాల పోటీలకు ఇతర ప్రాంతాల నుంచి ప్రజలు వారి మేకలను తీసుకొస్తారు.
మేము గత ఏడాది ఈ కార్యక్రమంలో పాల్గొన్నాము. ఈ సారి కూడా అందరూ వెళ్తుండటం చూసి మా మేకను తీసుకుని వెళ్లాలనుకున్నాను. మేము కొజోవా పట్టణ శివార్లలో నివాసం ఉంటాము. ఇక్కడకు రావాలంటే చాలా సమయం పడుతుంది. అయినా మేము వచ్చాము.
-వైరా పాంచ్కో, మేక యజమాని
ఏటా చాలామంది ఔత్సాహికులు ఈ కార్యక్రమాన్ని వీక్షించేందుకు వస్తుంటారు. పోటీలు అయిపోయాక అందాల విజేత ఎవరో నిర్ణయిస్తారు. ఈ సారి మార్తా అనే మేక అందాల రాణిగా నిలిచి పూల కిరీటం, 40 డాలర్లు సొంతం చేసుకుంది. ఆ తర్వాత దర్జాగా కారులో ఎక్కి ఇంటికెళ్లిపోయింది.
రన్నరప్గా నిలిచిన మార్తా తల్లి, ఇతర మేకలు 20 డాలర్లు బహుమానం, క్యారెట్లతో చేసిన నెక్లెస్ను గెలుచుకున్నాయి.
ఇదీ చూడండి:గజరాజులకు బఫెట్ విందు.. అతిథులకు కనువిందు..!
మేకల అందాల పోటీల్లో విజేత 'మార్తా' ఉక్రెయిన్లోని కొజోవా పట్టణంలో అందాల పోటీలు జరిగాయి. పాల్గొన్నది ఎవరో తెలుసా...? మేకలు. వెలుగుజిలుగుల ఎంబ్రాయిడరీ చొక్కాలు, స్కర్టులు, రకరకాల అలంకరణలతో హొయలొలుకుతూ పోటీలో పాల్గొన్నాయి మేకలు. కొజోవా అంటే మేకల పట్టణం. ఇక్కడ నివాసం ఉండే 10 వేల మంది... మేకలను గౌరవప్రదంగా చూస్తారు. వాటి కోసం సంవత్సరంలో ఒకరోజు ఇలా పండుగ నిర్వహిస్తారు.
ఇక్కడ జరిగే అందాల పోటీలకు ఇతర ప్రాంతాల నుంచి ప్రజలు వారి మేకలను తీసుకొస్తారు.
మేము గత ఏడాది ఈ కార్యక్రమంలో పాల్గొన్నాము. ఈ సారి కూడా అందరూ వెళ్తుండటం చూసి మా మేకను తీసుకుని వెళ్లాలనుకున్నాను. మేము కొజోవా పట్టణ శివార్లలో నివాసం ఉంటాము. ఇక్కడకు రావాలంటే చాలా సమయం పడుతుంది. అయినా మేము వచ్చాము.
-వైరా పాంచ్కో, మేక యజమాని
ఏటా చాలామంది ఔత్సాహికులు ఈ కార్యక్రమాన్ని వీక్షించేందుకు వస్తుంటారు. పోటీలు అయిపోయాక అందాల విజేత ఎవరో నిర్ణయిస్తారు. ఈ సారి మార్తా అనే మేక అందాల రాణిగా నిలిచి పూల కిరీటం, 40 డాలర్లు సొంతం చేసుకుంది. ఆ తర్వాత దర్జాగా కారులో ఎక్కి ఇంటికెళ్లిపోయింది.
రన్నరప్గా నిలిచిన మార్తా తల్లి, ఇతర మేకలు 20 డాలర్లు బహుమానం, క్యారెట్లతో చేసిన నెక్లెస్ను గెలుచుకున్నాయి.
ఇదీ చూడండి:గజరాజులకు బఫెట్ విందు.. అతిథులకు కనువిందు..!
ITALY MUSEUM POLITICS
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Florence, Italy - 6 August 2019
1. Various of visitors looking at the 'Birth of Venus' by Sandro Botticelli, in one of the new rooms of the Uffizi museum in Florence
2. Various of visitors walking along the third corridor of the Uffizi museum, leading to Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raffaello rooms and Laocoon statue by Baccio Bandinelli in background
3. Various of visitors crowding Piero della Francesca room and his painting 'The Duke and Duchess of Urbino' portraits
4. Various of Eike Schmidt, Director of Uffizi museum, and 'Adoration of the Magi' by Leonardo Da Vinci
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Eike Schmidt, Director of the Uffizi museum:
"The Ministry of Culture in Italy has seen nine reforms in recent years. And all the previous eight ones always gave some more power, if in one way or another, to regional and local structure. This is the first one which indeed is in counter-tendency by strengthening the centre, the administration in Rome."
6. Various of visitors getting close to the 'Spring' by Sandro Botticelli, taking photos and selfies
7. Various of Schmidt looking at 'Medusa' painted on shield by Caravaggio Merisi
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Eike Schmidt, Director of the Uffizi museum:
"There were always barriers, so you couldn't really get very close to this. The new technology permits people to really walk up very close to the painting and sometimes they touch the glass with their noses, and we see that every morning because every morning it's being cleaned and we have several nose marks on the glass."
9. Close of new double glass used to protect artworks and allow close up viewing of painting
10. Various of visitors staring at 'The Holy family', also known as 'Doni tondo', by Michelangelo Buonarroti
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Eike Schmidt, Director of the Uffizi museum:
"In the past, the visitors were oftentimes seen as nuisance that would come to the museum and would really block the accessibility for scholars to see these works of art. But art actually has a much broader function and a much deeper one and it's not just limited to the art historical dates that come with these single works of art that are held in museums and so they have, of course, a very strong emotional quality that art works that can actually help to form an identity for people and for peoples as well in the plural."
12. Various of Schmidt visiting Uffizi storage rooms, where unseen artworks are kept
13. Wide of Ponte Vecchio, medieval bridge seen from Uffizi
14. Close of "Uffizi Gallery" plaque
15. Close of Italian and Florence flags on facade of town hall
16. Various of Palazzo della Signoria, Florence town hall exterior
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Rome, Italy - 8 August 2019
17. Close of Italian and EU flags on facade of the Italian ministry of cultural heritage
18. Wide of Italian ministry of cultural heritage exterior
19. Close of plaque, reading (Italian) "Ministry of Cultural Heritage"
20. Tilt down of Italian ministry of cultural heritage exterior
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Massa Carrara, Italy - 7 August 2019
21. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Federico Giannini, Chief Editor of finestresullarte.info online art magazine:
"I believe that the goal (of the reform) is to put under a single unified control a number of activities. But by doing this, I believe that the entire system will become more rigid and we will see longer decision-making times."
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Rome, Italy - 9 August 2019
22. Wide of Valentino Nizzo, Director of the Etruscan museum of Valle Giulia in Rome, walking toward the Sarcophagus of the spouses
23. Close of Pirgy temple facade
24. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Valentino Nizzo, Director of the Etruscan museum of Valle Giulia in Rome:
"There will (after the reform) be a stronger control by the central authorities, or maybe also a stronger support, to the peripheral entities. Obviously, those who are more concerned and pre-occupied by the reform are fearing that the autonomy of the museums will be substantially reduced, especially for museums of major national interest. Those who were made autonomous and thanks to this were able to do a lot over the past few years. It is at the moment difficult and maybe not fully intellectually honest to criticize while the implementation is not yet there."
25. Pan right of visitors looking at Sarcophagus of Spouses
26. Various of ancient Etruscan jewels
27. Various of Etruscan museum ticket office
28. Wide of Etruscan museum courtyard
LEADIN:
The Uffizi Galleries in Florence have been experiencing an exciting renaissance since radical reforms granted Italy's top state-run museums considerable autonomy and allowed foreigners at the helm.
Over the last four years, revenues have been climbing and visitor numbers are up, but the current populist government wants change - it's now bringing the decision-making power back to Rome, prompting fear that the vibrancy of Italy's museums will be stilted.
STORYLINE:
Ingenious makeovers of rooms full of superstar paintings, like Botticelli's 'Birth of Venus', are wowing tourists in Florence.
But barely four years after reforms allowed museums more freedom to run themselves, populist politics are roiling Italy's art world.
A cultural counter-reformation is looming that threatens to undo museum autonomy and concentrate purse-strings and power back in bureaucratic Rome.
It means museum directors might soon not have such a free hand and some in the cadre of bold, new directors, hired under a previous, centre-left government, are bolting, while others are in limbo.
At least three of the seven foreign directors that came on board are leaving at the end of their four-year contracts in October.
The Uffizi's dynamic German director, Eike Schmidt - the first-ever foreigner to head Italy's biggest-drawing museum - is among those leaving.
While Schmidt wouldn't elaborate on why he's leaving his post, other foreign colleagues blamed a combination of nationalist sentiment, entrenched bureaucratic mentalities and Italians' penchant for last-minute decisions for their own imminent departures.
The reform of the museums ruled by the Italian minister of cultural Heritage, Alberto Bonisoli will decrease the powers of the directors of the main Italian museums with the aim of having a closer control on costs and international loans of artworks.
The reform will create a central entity which will be solely entitled to issue public tenders for new infrastructure, more modern showcases, disabled access, communication and exhibitions.
From now on, the formerly plenipotential manager-directors will have to pass through further scrutiny of the ministry, with high concerns about a massive slowdown of the decision making process.
"The Ministry of Culture in Italy has seen nine reforms in recent years," says Schmidt.
"And all the previous eight ones always gave some more power, if in one way or another, to regional and local structure. This is the first one which indeed is in counter-tendency by strengthening the centre, the administration in Rome."
Thanks to his autonomy, Schmidt was able to bring more than four million visitors into the Uffizi galleries last year - an increase of 6 percent compared with 2017.
The 34 million-euro profits were used for maintenance, to renovate displays and to buy new pieces.
Masterpieces were put safely behind nearly invisible double-glass. It meant museum-goers could now get right up close to the display cases.
Where Caravaggio's 'Medusa' had long been in a hallway, now it is the star of a room dedicated to the master, catching the eye of the visitors and drawing them in.
"There were always barriers, so you couldn't really get very close to this," says Schmidt.
"The new technology permits people to really walk up very close to the painting and sometimes they touch the glass with their noses, and we see that every morning because every morning it's being cleaned, and we have several nose marks on the glass."
The improvements have all been possible thanks to hard-won reforms granting Italy's top state-run museums considerable autonomy and opening the doors to think-outside-the-box foreigners and other outsiders at the helm.
Where museums once struggled for permission to open a bookstore, Schmidt was able to renovate 13 rooms, buy 53 new paintings, hire 94 people, buy new benches and organise 20 temporary exhibitions, since taking his post in 2015.
"In the past, the visitors were oftentimes seen as nuisance that would come to the museum and would really block the accessibility for scholars to see these works of art," he says.
"But art actually has a much broader function and a much deeper one and it's not just limited to the art historical dates that come with these single works of art that are held in museums and so they have, of course, a very strong emotional quality that art works that can actually help to form an identity for people and for peoples as well in the plural."
According to art expert, Federico Giannini, editor-in-chief of finestresullarte.info magazine, the Bonisoli's reform is heading in the complete opposite direction than the one done by the previous minister of culture.
"I believe that the goal (of the reform) is to put under a single unified control a number of activities," he says.
"But by doing this, I believe that the entire system will become more rigid and we will see longer decision-making times."
One of the museums that will be massively affected by the reform is the famous Etruscan museum of Villa Giulia in Rome.
Its young director, Valentino Nizzo, will completely lose his decision-making power and go back under the umbrella of the culture minister.
The director sees the reform as an abrupt stop to all the activities he started to transform the museum into an open and lively environment.
Nizzo is concerned that it will no longer be possible to invest in a timely way on maintenance, paths for disabled people, laboratories for children and performances in the beautiful courtyards of the museum.
"There will (after the reform) be a stronger control by the central authorities, or maybe also a stronger support, to the peripheral entities," says Nizzo.
"Obviously, those who are more concerned and pre-occupied by the reform are fearing that the autonomy of the museums will be substantially reduced, especially for museums of major national interest.
"Those who were made autonomous and thanks to this were able to do a lot over the past few years. It is at the moment difficult and maybe not fully intellectually honest to criticize while the implementation is not yet there."
Bonisoli has defended his reform decree as necessary "reorganisation" to combat wasteful spending and opportunistic behaviour in museum international relations.
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