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Arts - 28 Giugno

Museo degli Innocenti: Entrepreneurs Who Donated Beauty Even to the Most Humble

The silk makers were well travelled business people, but they were also conscious of their responsibilities and believed that the poor, in this case the abandoned children, had as much right to beauty as others. They entrusted the responsibility for the construction of the institution to Filippo Brunelleschi. It would be as if today the Italian Merchants Association, la Confindustria, entrusted a project for the welcoming of migrants to Renzo Piano.

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Arts - 24 Maggio

In NY Covid-19 Drops the Curtain for Theaters but the Show Must Go On in Life

I talked about all this with Amy Frances Quint, an American actress, born and raised in Rome until her adolescence and who moved to the States to start her career as an actress, and Austin Pendleton, noted actor, director, and teacher. They both tell us about the challenges and the surprises of performance during the pandemic.

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Arts - 11 Maggio

The Show Must Go On… Line! NYC Theaters at the Time of Coronavirus

It’s the second month of lockdown here in New York. The State of New York, starting May 15, will reopen low risk activities but only in the upstate regions. NYC will remain locked down, with only essential activities working and everything related to show business suspended. Cinemas, theaters, pubs, arenas, all gathering locations for cultural/entertainment […]

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Arts - 27 Ottobre 2019

Reality Fleeing from Itself: “Peeping Tom” at “BAM’s Next Wave Festival 2019”

The Peeping Tom group blends dance, acrobatics, acting and singing, and nails all these disciplines in a hyper-realistic aesthetic, stuck into real stage sets, but unsettled or distorted by a perceptive and human instability, which contradicts every rational logic of time and space.

Antonio Canova: The Dancer

Arts - 16 Ottobre 2019

Commemorating Sculptor Antonio Canova, His Legacy, and Its Place in History

In the late 18th century, Neo-Classical sculptor Antonio Canova was proclaimed the new Phidias, the new Praxiteles, and his studio was a “must-see” stop for travelers on the official Grand Tour. His many VIP patrons throughout Europe included Popes Pius VI and VII, as well as Napoleon and the Bonaparte family. Today his artistic legacy is being celebrated with this mega-exhibit in Rome. And to finish the day, you can enjoy tonnarelli cacio e pepe in his studio which is now a bar/restaurant/and museum.

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Arts - 23 Settembre 2019

Isadora Duncan Exhibits Herself…with Her Usual Panache

Isadora improvised, following precise guidelines, listening to her body…She danced with her joyfully turgid body, barefoot, wrapped in a Hellenistic peplos, and with movement inspired by the undulating motion of sea waves and the flight of birds….enjoying both controversy and success everywhere she danced.

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Arts - 8 Settembre 2019

“BVLGARI: the Story, the Dream”, Three Generations of an Iconic Family of Jewelers

The decadence of “Hollywood on the Tiber” played a crucial part in transforming the image of Italy from that of a struggling country, into a glamorous industrial power. It also gave Rome new appeal, thanks also to its fashion houses and artisanry, and not least for the contributions of the Bulgari jewelers. Starting in the 1950s the Eternal City returned to being the cradle of art and history, but also the center of glamour—a resource for at least the next forty years.

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Arts - 27 Luglio 2019

“The Kabuki” by Maurice Béjart, Still a Hit in the World

It is called The Kabuki, but its only reference point to the great bourgeois Japanese classical theater is that it deals with a group of suicidal samurai. More than thirty years after its first performances, it has still ignited the public of Teatro alla Scala, relying on the skill of impeccable interpreters.

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Arts - 15 Aprile 2019

Alessandra Ferri at La Scala with Virginia Woolf: This Ballet Changed My Life

Delicate, seemingly fragile, she is nevertheless extremely strong, almost always on pointe, in McGregor’s frequently audacious choreographic style. Ferri is the protagonist in two of the three parts that comprise the Woolf Works ballet. The first part, I Now, I Then, opens with the only existing recording in Virginia Woolf’s own voice, stored in the BBC’s archives since 1937. Related to her essay On Craftmanship, her words are well-articulated: “How can we combine the old words in a new order so they survive, so they create beauty, so that they tell the truth? That is the question.”

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Arts - 12 Aprile 2019

Paola Antonelli on Broken Nature: How Design Helps Us Make Peace with Nature

“Broken Nature”, or how design can help us to reverse the course and re-establish those links with Nature that progress and industrialization have broken. To do this, Paola Antonelli and the Milan Triennale have selected hundreds of restorative design projects and commissioned 4 original works, including “The Room of Change” by another Italian living in […]

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