Art books, the passion of a lifetime
Wednesday, 01 February 2012
Reinhard Grüner is a collector from Monaco. His passion is art books, which he collects – and sometimes exhibits – since the 1960s. His website, www.buchkunst.info is a real “online museum”, where international artist books are catalogued and photographed. Amongst the artists there are Henri Matisse and Andy Warhol. Books, but also works of art
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Photograph the silence and polar lights
Wednesday, 01 February 2012
“There are routes in the sky that guide the birds but that men cannot see. There are routes in the sea along which fish move. But men cannot see them. There are lines that join the heaven to the earth, but men do not see them. But the divine eye sees them”. This is (if
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Developing the detective story – 1
Wednesday, 01 February 2012
Detective stories have been developed and written but they weren’t always done “so well”. And the few sensible lines on the topic were written by Raymond Chandler, author of Goldfish, indeed, in his “Ten rules of detective stories”, which appeared in the early 1930s on the pages of the hard-boiled magazine, Black Mask, the mother
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Marsiglia city of culture
Wednesday, 01 February 2012
It was the 1980s and “Curiosity killed the cat” played “Misfit”, their first album. After decades, I realize that perhaps I owe something to the English band. In their appeal to that same curiosity that today, far from any expectation and desire, led me on a trip to Marseille. Just recently the city was appointed
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Fermoeditore Cup 2012, sporting emotions for kids
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
The first edition of Fermoeditore Cup – a football tournament dedicated to children born 2002 to 2006 organized by Academy Livorno Calcio school and sponsored by Fermoeditore – was a success beyond all expectations. From 5 to 8 January 2012, over five hundred youngsters were involved in great matches, closely watched by a number of
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The war against Christmas
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
«Dear Santa Claus, If you would like to see all the decorations intact on the Christmas tree for the next year, I suggest you bring me a new dishwasher, a new smartphone and especially that beautiful 4WD off-road Jeep which climbs everywhere for my child and which I saw in the store in front of
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Far from the madding crowd: George Harrison
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
When talking about something concerning the Beatles one does not speak only about music history or costume, but history tout court. This is a fact: to paraphrase John Lennon, we can say that the Beatles were and still are, forty-two years after their breakup, more famous (and certainly more well-loved) than Queen Elizabeth II. They
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A song of light for Modica
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Modica (province of Ragusa), December 2011 Modica, like Turin and Lyon before it, has been able to give life to a unique territorial marketing event. It has succeeded in combining the everyday aesthetics of its narrow streets and monuments with technology; the town has been able to dare: it turned off the lights of the
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Reality as seen by Robusti
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
A painting by Enrico Robusti – and I speak of the newer ones – is neither calming nor reassuring. Stupidity, vulgarity, meanness, hypocrisy: the feelgood humanity lives elsewhere. Occasionally some kindness emerges. Distorted figures and dizzying perspectives, large canvases shine with acrylic aggressiveness; the subjective interpretation falls before the imperative meaning of titles, ironic if
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