2 August 2026 – Sunday
2 August 2026 – Sunday

Yul Kwon: Other People’s Finished Lives

Mary Oliver: Learning To Listen

Malcolm X: The Sword that Challenged America

The Bad Dürrenberg Shaman: A Relic Of Our Ancient Selves.  

Neymar: A Wonder Kid That Never Grew Up

Love, Myself

Columns

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Shaping History Through Art: How Museums Define the Past

Museums are not neutral simply because they preserve culture; they also shape the terms through which culture is understood. Stolen art has long been displayed not as evidence of colonial violence, but as shared heritage, softened by prestige and institutional authority. And that is exactly what allows museums to influence not only how art is seen, but how history itself is remembered.
The way museums choose to display art does more than just preserve the past; it shapes the way people learn to see it. A museum’s cultural authority often dictates who gets to claim that piece of history, with the question most…
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L’arte come funzione pubblica: perché il bello è un bene comune

Quale ruolo può svolgere l'arte nella costruzione delle città del futuro? Dalla valorizzazione dei territori alla creazione di nuovi spazi culturali, una riflessione sul rapporto tra patrimonio, identità urbana e interesse collettivo a cura dell'European Youth Think Tank. 
Di Luigi Capoani, docente di Economia Internazionale presso l’Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia e presidente dell’European Youth Think Tank (EYTT) e Luigi Marsero, analista dell’European Youth Think Tank.  Come European Youth Think Tank (EYTT), organizzazione non profit che riunisce giovani ricercatori, ci interessiamo non…
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Marjane Satrapi and the Art of Refusing Silence   

Behind Marjane Satrapi’s black-and-white drawings lies a story of childhood memories, exile, and political resistance. Her work began as an autobiography and today, after her passing, we can see how it has become a manifesto for women’s freedom and equality.
Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French artist, writer, and filmmaker, passed away at the age of 56. Best known for her memoir Persepolis, Satrapi was one of the most important voices in visual contemporary visual storytelling. Her death marked the end of a deeply impactful life, both artistically and…
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Gordon Matta-Clark, Anarchitecture and the Honesty of the Demolished 

Gordon Matta-Clark- an architect who never built a single thing, yet spent the 1970s slicing through abandoned buildings. His art was a political act of resistance to ownership, driven by the motivation to expose the anatomy of the city. Fifty years later, those same buildings are luxury lofts, and the wounds have been sold.
What we think of today when someone mentions the district of SOHO in New York is luxury: a place of expensive designer boutiques, making it the top shopping destination. What also characterizes the neighborhood is its unique buildings, having…
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The Female Figure as Cultural Mirror: A Comparative Study of The Burial of Atala, Street, Berlin, and Woman I

A comparative study of how three artists across three centuries used the female figure to reflect, critique, and challenge the societies that shaped them.
Serving as a mirror to societies that produce them, Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson’s The Burial of Atala (1808, France), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Street, Berlin (1913, Germany), and Willem de Kooning’s Woman I (1950–1952, USA) reflect politics, religion, and social unrest. Placing…
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Rothko and Florence: A Bond Forged in the Monastery of San Marco

Discover the profound journey of Mark Rothko, the artist who transformed his works into a universal language. Our latest article explores the unbreakable bond between the artist and Florence, from the discovery of Fra Angelico’s frescoes in the Convent of San Marco to the major retrospective at Palazzo Strozzi in 2026. Join us on a journey through the colours and emotions of a master whose legacy remains the ultimate bridge between tragedy and hope.
In this article, we’ll discuss Mark Rothko, recognized as the most influential figure of his generation in the United States. However, the path that led him to become the leading exponent of Abstract Expressionism is not linear. This is…
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Il canto di chi non ha perdono 

Articolo in collaborazione con Tra I Leoni. Da Tutti morimmo a stento a La Buona Novella, Fabrizio De André costruisce una poetica degli ultimi che rifiuta di ridurre l’essere umano ai suoi errori, al suo status o alla morale dominante. Indaghiamo come Faber trasformi emarginati, prostitute, ladroni e condannati in voci capaci di interrogare la responsabilità collettiva, osservando l’umanesimo anarchico della sua musica, la critica alle istituzioni punitive e la centralità della pietà come forma radicale di riconoscimento.
di Alessandro Mazza e Chiara Corbella Ogni società si racconta attraverso ciò che celebra; più raramente accetta di riconoscersi in ciò che abbandona. Da questa frattura nasce Tutti morimmo a stento, il primo concept album di De André pubblicato nel 1968 e concepito nella forma di Cantata in si…
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Shorter Skirts and Other Economic Forecasts

If you see a guy in a three-piece suit staring out the window at female legs this autumn, don't jump to sexist conclusions. Maybe he's not just a chauvinist pig, after all: he could be diligently seeking clues to the financial future.
The Roaring Twenties were a period of experimentation, boldness, youthfulness at the expense of tradition. Glitz and glamour, paired with underlying simplicity, revitalised post-war fashion, as skirts shortened and silhouettes grew linear. While convenience and rejection of formality were key, beadwork, sequins and embroidery adorned evening-wear. Both waistlines and hemlines mirrored this new sense of audacity, respectively falling and rising throughout the decade. At the…
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Prompt, token e mercato: come nasce il valore dell’arte digitale

Articolo in collaborazione con Tra I Leoni. Dalle immagini generate dall’intelligenza artificiale agli NFT, l’arte digitale mette in discussione autorialità, proprietà e valore. Indaghiamo come il riconoscimento di un’opera si costruisca oggi attraverso prompt, token, mercato e istituzioni, osservando casi come Damien Hirst, Yves Klein, Marcel Duchamp e il recente ridimensionamento del mercato NFT.
di Greta Beluffi e Luigi Marsero Negli ultimi anni, la circolazione di immagini generate da sistemi di intelligenza artificiale è cresciuta in maniera esponenziale. Grazie a un semplice prompt, sistemi come Midjourney e DALL·E riescono a trasformare poche parole…
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The Fragile Business of Making Films That Matter

Somewhere between the sequels and the franchises, a different kind of cinema is still quietly fighting for its life.
It begins fittingly, with a whisper of something strange. A girl confesses: “It was I… It was a witch.” At that moment, “The Witch” announces itself as something rare. A film uninterested in pleasing everyone. Austere, unsettling and unapologetically specific. It…
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