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Antonella Martino, Artist-Illustrator Who Breaks the Rules to Reach for Freedom

"My illustrations come to life after I study the article: initially I look for that unique something which distinguishes it and on which the whole piece hinges. It's not a question of the sense it has so much as the path, the journey... And it is here that all the ghosts that haunt me come into play: rudimentary notions, academic conditioning, stylistic rules and superficial factual knowledge are reawakened and pursue me relentlessly, giving me no way of escape. The problem is to break away from these “limits” and seek freedom”.

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Roberto Longhi Foundation Exhibits Its Caravaggios at the Capitoline Museums

Longhi’s lifetime ambition was the artistic re-evaluation of Caravaggio and his importance to seventeenth-century Baroque painting. He reached his goal by curating two mega-exhibitions in Milan: “Caravaggio e i caravaggeschi” in 1951 and “I pittori della realtà in Lombardia” in 1953. Besides Caravaggio, Longhi also put Piero della Francesca on the world map. Among the other artists he wrote about were: Cimabue, Masolino, Massaccio, Correggio, Carpaccio, Artemisia Gentileschi, the Futurists, The Roman School, and Giorgio Morandi.

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Danse Macabre or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Death

The scenario we are living in, dominated by the first global sanitary crisis of the communication era, is totally unprecedented and will inevitably produce a great effect on artistic expressions, in particular those related to death. The Covid-19 assumes a great significance in relation to the post-truth society, but the reality is that a few years will need to pass before we can get a full awareness of what will be left from the pandemic, and so art will need time before metabolizing the event. But art will reflect a post-Covid-19 awareness of death.

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Spunky Boston Indie I AM Books Kicks off Two-Day Festival of Italian Culture

After a successful debut last year, the IDEA Boston festival is returning packed with an expanded lineup of more than 25 panels, 60 guest speakers from academia to award-winning authors, poets, artists, social and political analysts, actors, musicians, a photo exhibit (open to the public) and a gala to wrap up the two days of intellectual stimulation and live entertainment.  While focusing on things Italian, all sessions are held in English for greater accessibility.

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“Camp”, the Theatricalization of Fashion: The Exhibition at the Met

In her essay, Sontag introduces the concept of “Camp sensibility.” In the volume containing her camp essay, in fact, the essay on Camp is followed by one “On culture and the new sensibility,” an important essay that examines in depth the questions posed in “Camp”: namely, the distinction between: “’high’ and ‘low ’(or ‘mass’ or ‘popular’) culture, which is based partly on an evaluation of the difference between unique and mass-produced objects.[…] The works of popular culture (and even films were for a long time included in this category) were seen as having little value because they were manufactured objects…”

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