3 June 2026 – Wednesday
3 June 2026 – Wednesday

Shorter Skirts and Other Economic Forecasts

Normalising the Unthinkable? Russian Chemical Weapons Use in Ukraine

Prompt, token e mercato: come nasce il valore dell’arte digitale

Bocconian Ideas for Composition: Stefano Corvino’s Thoughts on Contemporary Musicmaking  

The Fragile Business of Making Films That Matter

No One Stayed Still: BLPSA’s “Tonight We Gotta Footloose!”

Arts & Culture

Let’s dive into the world of creativity with a curated selection of stories spanning art, exhibitions, music, cinema, literature, and more. From timeless masterpieces to the latest cultural phenomena, Arts & Culture explores how the arts shape society and spark dialogue.

Every week on Wednesday.

  • Reading Time: 4 minutes

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…
  • Reading Time: 5 minutes

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…
  • Reading Time: 3 minutes

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…
  • Reading Time: 7 minutes

Artista, fotocamera, soggetto: un ritratto del rapporto individuo – società 

Articolo in collaborazione con L'Eclisse. Da sempre gli artisti hanno rappresentato il rapporto individuo-società e l'arte ci permette di coglierne i mutamenti. Indaghiamo come questa relazione si presenti nell'epoca contemporanea, osservando gli spazi privati e pubblici immortalati nelle fotografie di Menno Aden e Christopher Herwig.
di Elena Floris e Alice Di Terlizzi L’essere umano è sempre stato oggetto di studio degli artisti: prendendo in considerazione come il rapporto di uomini e donne con la società cambi continuamente, l’artista si avvicina ad esaminare i fenomeni…
  • Reading Time: 3 minutes

Fashion is Art

The Met Gala returns with the theme “Fashion is Art”, turning the red carpet of New York City into a space where clothes become means of expressions: not just a series of dresses, but a reflection of our society.
Every first Monday of May, New York briefly shifts its focus. The steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art transform: from being just an entrance to becoming a stage to be observed, photographed, interpreted. The Met Gala is often reduced to what we see the…
  • Reading Time: 4 minutes

Are Literature and Technology Mutually Exclusive? 

Humanity subjects individuals to ever evolving world dynamics, that follow the wave of progress which now comes under the form of increasing technology use. However, does tech reliance come with a parallel abandonment of literature reading? Or will people be able to take advantage of AI use while still recognizing the 'outdated' enjoyability of authors' creativeness?
The world humans have come to coexist within is as multifaceted as it is ever evolving, since it follows the direction of human development while implicitly establishing the canons according to which human life should be molded. Considering the inescapably pervasive…
  • Reading Time: 2 minutes

Il Vangelo di Giuda 

Il nuovo film di Giulio Base pone agli spettatori una domanda indicibile: si poteva compiere la parabola di Cristo senza Giuda, l'apostolo traditore? Con una narrazione non convenzionale, il regista ripercorre il Vangelo con gli occhi dell'Iscariota. "Il Vangelo di Giuda" è nelle sale dal 2 Aprile.
Il nuovo film di Giulio Base pone agli spettatori una domanda indicibile: si poteva compiere la parabola di Cristo senza Giuda, l’apostolo traditore? Con una narrazione non convenzionale, il regista ripercorre il Vangelo con gli occhi dell’Iscariota. “Il Vangelo…
  • Reading Time: 8 minutes

Kiefer and Milan: A Bond Strengthened through Alchemy 

Discover the monumental journey of Anselm Kiefer, the contemporary alchemist who transforms lead into memory and ruins into places of knowledge. Our latest article explores the unbreakable bond between the artist and Milan, from the iconic concrete towers of Pirelli HangarBicocca to the scarred walls of the Sala delle Cariatidi at Palazzo Reale with the new exhibition Le Alchimiste.
In this article, we’ll discuss Anselm Kiefer, one of the most important artists of the post-World War II era. He emerged in the late 1970s as a leader of Neo-Expressionism, alongside Georg Baselitz and Julian Schnabel. In an era dominated by Minimalism and…
  • Reading Time: 3 minutes

Control, Chaos, and Canvases: Why Modern Art Threatens Fascism

“Too complicated” isn’t always a critique, it can be a discomfort with thinking. Modern art has long been outcast not because it lacks meaning, but because it challenges the narrative. And that’s exactly what makes it powerful.
“Works of art which cannot be understood in themselves but need some pretentiousinstruction book to justify their existence will never again find their way to the Germanpeople.” Adolf Hitler pronounced this in 1937, during the opening of the Nazi…
  • Reading Time: 4 minutes

Streets of Minneapolis

Streets of Minneapolis dimostra come la musica può ancora avere un forte valore politico e sociale. Springsteen riafferma il legame profondo fra arte e politica: il brano non si limita a raccontare un fatto di cronaca, lo trasforma in sentimento collettivo in grado di far smuovere l’animo della gente dimostrando che la musica non è solo intrattenimento o una storia d’amore, ma anche voce critica del presente.
In quante occasioni negli ultimi anni abbiamo letto e sentito cantanti essere duramente criticatiper aver parlato di politica o aver inneggiato alla pace durante concerti o festival della musica?Quante volte abbiamo sentito che la musica non è politica ed…
Load More
logo white