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The Flying Whale: Chasing Stories, Art and Culture Between Italy and America

Caterina Monda explains, "It all started with a reflection with my mother about the multiculturalism present in our family. I spent many years in New York, and now I live in Milan. My mother, Jacqueline Greaves, is Jamaican, and my father is Italian. We went from how multicultural Italy is and how it is connected to America in many ways, and we decided to tell stories. Cultures, backgrounds and diversity are the key. At a time when we were all locked up reading again and writing again, I found myself doing much research and I developed a strong need to tell stories."

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Vittoria Campaner: When Technique and Aesthetic Sensibility Work Together

“Abroad, you’re allowed to get a lot of practical training even when you’re a student. I’ve always tried to work with film productions and/or artistic projects even during my studies. And I think I’ve been particularly lucky in the collaborations I’ve been involved in and the friendships I’ve struck up… As a Venetian, I’d love to be the DP on a film shown at the Venice Film Festival. For my family, for my friends. My hometown.”

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After Celebrating Food in Famous Paintings, the Uffizi Galleries Turned to Married Love

The Uffizi’s celebration started on January 29, when the Museums posted “The Doni Spouses,” narrated by the retired head art historian at the Uffizi, Marzia Faietti, on Facebook. As for Massari’s three-part sweet, “crema di bianca mangiare”, it’s a work of art in itself. Only an expert pastry chef like Massari could possibly skillfully combine the long list of ingredients and make it look like art as well…

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Art in the Time of Covid-19: As for Picasso and Kahlo, Suffering Brings Inspiration

Even though exhibits and openings have been canceled due to the pandemic, some galleries have still had their best year… galleries have been forced to get creative...Graffiti images of doctors wearing superhero masks and nurses with boxing gloves can be seen across the globe...Graffiti artist Banksy has even posted images of his COVID-inspired pieces on his Instagram account, including “Game Changer” which depicts a little boy playing with a nurse doll.

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St. Francis and Giotto: The Saint and the Artist Started the Ecological Movement

Giotto revolutionized art by taking Byzantine iconography and humanizing it. St. Francis’ affinity for the environment influenced the artist Giotto (ca. 1270–1337), who revolutionized art history by taking Byzantine iconography and humanizing it. Giotto’s technique of integrating sacred images into the Earthly landscape was the most powerful form of popularizing religious ideas as illiteracy was widespread and the visual image spoke to the average person.

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The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Creative Urge: Now We Need Art More Than Ever

When I realized that the artistic passion could turn into a job, well, it came as a "shock" to my life…Just as an engineer breaks down and analyzes the problem before reassembling a process aimed at giving a solution, so in the same way the artist produces an artistic work after having "broken down his feelings" and after having analyzed them and filtered them, slowed down in time, focused transported by them.

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Pompeii’s Ancient Version of “McDonald’s” Gives Us a Glimpse of its Food and Art

This newly presented thermopolium, the equivalent of a modern day fast food restaurant, is characterized by a huge, L-shaped counter, decorated with beautiful paintings. Inside it researchers found several terracotta vessels containing the remains of several dishes, including young goat meat, snails and even a sort of “paella” made with fish and meat mixed together, jars with wine “corrected” with fava beans and ready to be served. Also recovered were the remains of two people killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, on August 24th, 79 AD.

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Callaway’s “The Sistine Chapel”: The Most Ambitious Photographic Project Ever Seen

They used a 33-foot tall scaffold and rig to capture every inch of the Chapel’s frescoes with advanced optics and digital photography. “The team was able to utilize three-dimensional reconstruction software to stitch together seamlessly all 270,000 individual frames to reproduce the Chapel to an unprecedented level of color [(99.4% accurate)] and detail [(1:1 scale)]. The result is the first opportunity in history for viewers to see the frescoes …with images so detailed and sharp and immersive that you feel you are there next to the artist, seeing in extreme close-up the precise colors, textures, even the artists’ individual brush strokes.”

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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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