Livia Straus and the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA), along the support of RCINY, brought together some of the best contemporary work from Eastern and Central Europe, and in so doing, to discern similarities and differences among the individual works and in relation to art in the West.
In selecting the work for AFTER THE FALL, the curators investigated literally hundreds of studios, scores of galleries, art schools, alternative spaces, museums, and art fairs; it was as a result of this elaborate and critical effort that six Romanian artists – Marius Bercea, Adrian Ghenie, Ion Grigorescu, Ciprian Mureşan, Şerban Savu, and Leonardo Silaghi – were included in this momentous and ambitious collection.

The New York Times featured in the July 27 issue the performance of The Blind Trip, with the Romanian artists Ana Margineanu, Peca Stefan, Saviana Stanescu, Ioana Paun, Maria Manolescu, Andreea Valean and many others.

One of the most innovative Romanian writers of the second half of the twentieth century, Dumitru Tsepeneag [Ţepeneag] is now widely available to American readers due to the amazing Dalkey Archive Press, which has been enlarging for the past years an author's series. Please find below excerpts of the U.S. reception of Tsepeneag's work.

Based on the merit of original artwork that takes on the ghost trail of severe repression, the 22-year old Cluj-based artist Leonardo Silaghi was selected to be artist-in-residence for the summer of 2010 at the highly vaunted Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art residency program.

With RCINY support, Link TV national broadcast of the special film series The Romanian New Wave. featuring films with no previous theatrical exposure in the U.S., was announced in the December 4, 2009 issue of The New York Times. 

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, in association with leading New York City cultural organizations, including the Romanian Cultural Institute, presented "Performing Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe", a five-month festival focused on the performing arts as a powerful voice and contributing force in the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe.

The First Cucuteni Culture Exhibition in the US  presented by ISAW - Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU brought more than 250 objects recovered from the graves, towns and villages of Old Europe, a cycle of related cultures that achieved a precocious peak of sophistication and creativity in what is now Southeastern Europe between 5,000-3,500 B.C. The event was welcomed by the press.

Dan Sociu, a young acclaimed Romanian poet and novelist read from the New Anthology THE WALL IN MY HEAD, at the event organized by Words Without Borders, in partnership with Open Letter Books, the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, the German Book Office, the Goethe-Institut New York and Idlewild Books. His participation was warmly received by the press. 

At the invitation of East River Commedia's 2010 undergroundzero festival, the production joined more than twenty artists and companies from around the world presenting a unique repertory of innovative performance to NYC audiences.