A Pixel with mustache
Tuesday, 06 May 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, 06 May 2014
Drop Folio – Sheet that shows the page number in the foot when in the other pages it is placed at the top; it is typically used for chapter start pages. Dummy – Volume composed solely of white sheets of paper, prepared by the printer or publisher to present to the client or to the
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Monsters, an exhibition in Rome
Tuesday, 06 May 2014
A labyrinthine and dark corridor on which open windows where rare pieces and archaeological wonders shine: concentrated and evocative, the exhibition Monsters. Fantastic creatures of fear and myth at Museo Nazionale Romano Palazzo Massimo (Rome, near Termini Station) analyzes the myths of classical tradition and their relationship with the contemporary world, their influence on modern
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Emotions, sounds and scents of Impressionism. Camille Pissarro in Pavia
Tuesday, 06 May 2014
Not only an exhibition, but a sensory experience. Not only paintings – “we do not hang pictures on the wall to fill voids,” writes the project manager – but narratives, perfumes, visual effects and research videos that allows visitors to immerse themselves in the world of Impressionism doyen Camille Pissarro. The story of the human
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A Pixel with mustache
Wednesday, 23 April 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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Shigeru Ban, Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014 for innovation in solidarity
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
The jury of Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014, among the most important international awards for architecture, has given to Japanese architect Shigeru Ban the prize for best architect of the year, thus motivating the choice: “An outstanding architect who for twenty years has responded with creativity to extreme situations caused by devastating natural disasters. His buildings
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Rami Haidar, poetry and proverbs
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
Rami Haidar, distinguished citizen of Parma, is a particular character: specialized doctor in Anesthesia and Intensive Care, of Lebanese origin, he has been living in Italy since 1977. He is son of a poet and writes himself poems in Italian; in collaboration with linguistics experts, he is translating in Italian his father’s poems and is
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Paul Strand from New York to Luzzara: a journey in black and white
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
No one, now, would dream of challenging the role of photography in visual arts. Analog or digital, it is cultural heritage of museums and galleries; it is protagonist of exhibitions and trade fairs, biennials and festivals. But there was a time when photography was not considered art: its realization through a mechanical mean and a
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Curiosity e-book: weird!
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
This time I propose some of the classics of mystery, with two e-books in Italian and two in English language. Presente a un’impiccagione e altre storie di fantasmi (Present at hanging and other stories of ghosts) is the title that Tanja Sartori offers to ebookgratis.net readers in her unpublished Italian translation. It is a collection
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Parallel lives: Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
It all began in the Chiostrino dei Voti dell’Annunziata in Florence. There, between 1513 and 1514, two painters about twenty years old were assigned to the creation of two frescos: the Visitation to Pontormo, the Assumption to Rosso Fiorentino. The exhibition “Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino. Divergent ways in the “manner” opens with these two paintings,
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