Arts - 26 Febbraio 2020 Venice and Its Revered Book Connection Since 1362 From March 9-29 additional “Acqua Alta” salvaged book art, under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture, will be on display in the windows of Milan’s prestigious book store Libreria Bocca in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II and offered for sale to the general public.
Arts - 18 Febbraio 2020 In the Dance of Alessandra Ferri, a Homage to the Mythical Actress Eleonora Duse Venice has the largest archive of documents on the life and art of Eleonora, thanks to the Istituto per il Teatro e il Melodramma of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini. The lagoon city has recently been invaded by destructive flooding. Moved by the disaster, the choreographer literally donated the European debut of his Duse - Choreographic Fantasies about Eleonora Duse, to the Teatro La Fenice. These Fantasies are typecast not only to his splendid Hamburg Ballet dancers, but above all to the unique, great tragédienne today able to take on such an important role: Alessandra Ferri.
Food & Wine - 12 Febbraio 2020 Legendary Eateries in Venice’s Piazza San Marco: History, Glamour and Staying Power One of the first cities in Italy to serve coffee and bring it to prominence, for the past few centuries Venice, and in particular Piazza San Marco, has been like a magnet, drawing flocks of celebrities who wished to pay homage to its beauty. Today a whopping 20 million tourists a year continue to do the same. Many of them will end up in one of these caffè-bars.
Travel - 30 Dicembre 2019 “Acqua Alta” In Venice. Bonacini Tells the Press: Stop the Fake News and Exaggerations Vittorio Bonacini, the owner of Hotel Tintoretto, informed us journalists that, “Venice’s 274 hotels (400, if you include Mestre and other mainland environs too)--75% of which belong to AVA--are usually sold out between New Year’s Day and the Epiphany, but this year our bookings are less than 50%. We have been hardest hit by American cancellations because 15% of Venice’s some 11 million overnight tourists every year are Americans, followed by the British at 8% and the French at 7%. Nothing like this has ever happened before, not even after September 11.”
Arte e Design - 20 Novembre 2018 Flavio “Kampah” Campagna, l’artista-regista di Parma diventato “Pope of Venice” Nella California Bohemien tra il ’92 e il '98, Kampah apre una casa di produzione e design televisivo, la “Kampah Visions”, in cui dirige spot per le più importanti aziende pubblicitarie del mondo. Vince un EMMY Award per la regia di una sigla per la ABC Television; la pubblicità della Cherry Coke entra nella collezione permanente del MOMA “Museum of Modern Art of New York” come una delle migliori 60 pubblicità dell’anno
Food & Wine - 17 Novembre 2018 Best Eating in Venice: Discovering the Specialties of Venetian Seafood If you ask an Italian where you eat well in Italy, many say: “everywhere but Venice, because it’s a minefield of overpriced, tourist-trap restaurants offering depressingly mediocre food”, but if you’re heading to Venice to see the Tintoretto exhibitions or visit the Armenian island of St. Lazarus, here are some special places you should eat
Arts - 6 Novembre 2018 Armenia at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and in Venice Since 1717 St. Lazarus Island in the Venetian lagoon has been a foremost and deeply revered center of Armenian culture in the world. Visitors to the exhibition, “Armenia!”, on at the Met until January 13, will want to make a pilgrimage to this shrine and sacred place too. For without the foresight of the first Abbot Mekhitar most of Armenia’s cultural history would have been lost forever
Lifestyles - 23 Ottobre 2017 An American Girl in Venice: Chloe, from California, for the Love of Italian Student at Ca' Foscari School for International Education, 25 year old Chloe Donnelly has come to Italy from California. Passionate about linguistics and philology, she fell in love with our Country: "I enjoy studying Italian because I love the language, but also because this type of study helps me become a better English teacher. Italy has a beautiful soul—it permeates everything"
Travel - 1 Settembre 2017 La Serenissima Swamped by Success "We are considering a reservation system that will include incentives such as discounts on museum tickets and local services to encourage people to visit Venice in the off-season", Paola Mar says. Venice welcomes 25 million visitors annually and to ease the effects of tourism on its locals, the Venice's City Council is considering strategies to limit the access to the main attractions.
Arts - 26 Marzo 2017 The Worth of Women: Feminism Started in Renaissance Venice A sixteenth-century book offers an insight on the issues that the women had to face in Renaissance Venice and still have to face today: violence, betrayal, family care, and inequality. Kairos Italy Theater's "The Worth of Women" takes us to the origins of feminism.