New sheen for “rebels without a cause”
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
In the magnificent version restored by the Cineteca of Bologna has been returned to the public Rebel Without a Cause (1955) by Nicholas Ray, Mr. Cinema-Cinema. Sensuality on edge, explosive technicolor on first stirrings of the heart and the restlessness of a “rebel without a cause” generation. The film has aroused the concerns of the
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Not only Picasso
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Let’s start from the center, from the heart of the exhibition Picasso and the Spanish modernity: sections The Monster and The Tragedy are housed in a darkened room, the gloom suited to protect the fragile designs of the Catalan painter. Two extraordinary cores, rarely leaving the Museum Reina Sofia and testifying to a journey that
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The founders of the Magnum: photographers of war for peace
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
It is May 22nd, 1947: in the restaurant of the MoMA in New York Robert Capa, David Seymour “Chim”, Henri Cartier-Bresson and George Rodger founded a photo agency that takes its name from a bottle of champagne. Magnum is born and begins a history of photojournalism and photography which marks the twentieth century and continues
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Design in 400 words: Steven Guarnaccia, design illustrator
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
A colorful character that flexes backwards to photograph a showcase of… books! They are children’s books, no… they are for adults, mah! They sure are design books, or rather, are storybooks revisited with taste, with good taste. Photographing them because they are his creations, his works. But what brings an internationally renowned illustrator for a
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The Italian design over the crisis, at the Triennale
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Seventh edition of the Triennale Design Museum: the focus is on a theme linked to actuality, productive self-sufficiency. The way to deal with the crisis differently adopted in three crucial periods in history – the ’30s,’70s and early ’00s – it shows how economic crises are conducive to the stimulation of design creativity. With the
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Classics of comics: Alberto Breccia
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Studies about Argentine comic develop since the sixties of the last century thanks to the comic adventure and action of Salgarian matrix, graphically characterized by the cinematic style of illustrators and designers of the Escuela Panamericana de Arte. Arrived in Argentina in the late forties, thanks to the initiatives of the Editorial Abril of Cesare
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A Pixel with mustache
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
t’s like many cats: lazy, messy, unpredictable, but adorable. Special like each feline can be. His name is Pixel, it lives with Cecilia&Fermo for a strange case and one day she decided to turn it into the protagonist of “flash” inspired to cat’s life in its many facets. Which color, size or sex is really
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A Pixel with mustache
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
It’s like many cats: lazy, messy, unpredictable, but adorable. Yet special, like all felines can be. His name is Pixel, it lives with Cecilia&Fermo for a strange case and one day she decided to turn it into the protagonist of “flash” inspired to cat’s life in its many facets. Which color, size or sex is
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The bibliophile’s handbook
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Littera antiqua – Writing that Florentine humanists Coluccio Salutati, Poggio Bracciolini and Niccolò Niccoli imitated by codes in Carolingian minuscule of IX-XII centuries, considering mistakenly penned by ancient Roman writing of the classical age. This type of writing became widespread in the fifteenth century, taking the name of humanities and evolving into two types: the
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The style between doors: re-opening the wardrobes of the Fondazione Magnani Rocca
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
What does it mean to open old wardrobes? It means to bring to light stories and history, especially when wardrobes and chests are the ones that from distant past preserve clothes and objects of a cultured family, fully integrated in the twentieth-century elite and in close contact with artists and poets, musicians and intellectuals. This
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