Reading time: 5 minutes Una sera di qualche mese fa, stavo girovagando distrattamente tra i canali televisivi. Le reti principali non davano nulla di interessante, quindi passai a scorrere quelle secondarie. Delusa dalla banalità [ … ]
Tag: culture
What makes a New Yorker? What is it like to study abroad in the hustling city?
Reading time: 4 minutes Given the opportunity to live some of the New Yorker life by studying at NYU Stern business school for the spring semester on the Bocconi exchange, I set out to [ … ]
Musei contro l’inverno dello spirito
Reading time: 5 minutes Ricordare, imparare, democratizzare Agorà del sapere e della bellezza In un momento storico in cui surrealtà, incertezza e contraddizione dipingono l’attuale quadro politico-culturale, il ruolo dei musei, in quanto agorà [ … ]
Vi presento il secondo Scherzo di Fryderyk Chopin
Reading time: 3 minutes Un viaggio attraverso uno dei “brani più fantastici del repertorio pianistico” Nel corso di questo articolo esploreremo un brano del repertorio pianistico del compositore Fryderyk Chopin: lo Scherzo No. 2 [ … ]
Father’s Life Manual
Reading time: 2 minutes In April 2008, riding the train from Thessaloniki where he worked back to Athens where our family lived, my father decided to write a life manual for my sister and [ … ]
Finding Solace in Arts: Return to Cultural Venues
Reading time: 3 minutes On the 13th of September, the 2021 Met Gala welcomed guests on the red carpets of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. After the event got canceled [ … ]
Latin America: where culture is big and crises are bigger
Reading time: 3 minutes One would think that when Europeans crossed the Atlantic hundreds of years ago, they expected their newfound colonies to flourish into stable global powerhouses. While today North American ex-colonies certainly [ … ]