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Cinzia Munari: painter with her head up

Tuesday, 26 March 2013 by Redazione

“When someone says, I can do it too, it means that he knows redo, otherwise he would have done before.” This sentence of the brilliant Bruno Munari welcomes the site guests of Cinzia Munari, bookseller and painter. As we read in the short biography, Cinzia was born in Lodi, and after a first artistic period

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Gabriele Basilico, the space as an actor

Wednesday, 13 March 2013 by Redazione

“When you try, in a space, to photograph a subject and the subject is the space itself, it happens that one moves, looks far, near and makes some strange movements as if it were a dance, enacts a sort of gesture as that of a diviner who goes looking for something that cannot be seen

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Steve Hackett, Genesis Revisited II – Album and tour

Wednesday, 27 February 2013 by Redazione

“Paper late!” cried a voice in the crowd”. It happened on 22.10.2012! Not just yesterday, but even in a time so remote as to make the information superfluous. It really happened. It has been released the sequel of Genesis Revisited published in 1996. It is called, imagine, Genesis Revisited II (after all what else should

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Long live Maria (Luigia)

Wednesday, 13 February 2013 by Redazione

«The artistic heritage of a people is sacred and history wants big things being preserved where they were born, where they are the frieze of life of the people who create them»: this is the spirit with whom professor Glauco Lombardi (1881-1970) devoted his physical, intellectual and economic energies to recover, study and preserving what

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Dj Mackelmore and his Thrift Shop

Wednesday, 13 February 2013 by Redazione

In USA there is a big trend, or even, a real contagion that is involving a plenty of people. It’s not a disease but a white rapper from Seattle very debated and irreverent and one of his most famous funky songs, dedicated to thrift stores, Thrift Shop, viewed more than 77 million times on Youtube;

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Giovanni Amoretti, “smart photographer”

Wednesday, 13 February 2013 by Redazione

Giovanni Amoretti’s story is the story of a family. Story that begins with a photographer father – Armando – that left us the amazing report about Parma barricades in 1922. And this is the beginning of an archive of thousands films and images that is still alive, growing, which is a unique treasure chest of

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Vivian Maier, witness of time

Wednesday, 30 January 2013 by Redazione

Vivian Maier was born in 1926 and died in Chicago in 2009. She was 83. The photos this woman took during her life have been displayed to public for the first time in 2010: one year after her death. What a story Mrs Maier’s one; when I read it for the first time I could

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A dinner with Goldfish

Wednesday, 16 January 2013 by Redazione

Good food and good reads: a hard-to-beat combination! The last event of the 2012 season of Eat as you write, entitled Night of the commissioners and investigators, provided all guests with an engaging and entertaining evening. Designed by journalist Gianluigi Negri, the event has seen the participation in the literary and artistic dinner at the

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Gangnam Style: a blockbuster becomes a hymn of freedom

Wednesday, 16 January 2013 by Redazione

The interest on the part of the young and wealthy Korean for fashion is a growing phenomenon in South Korea. This is evident from the number of Koreans one can meet in Italy at Milan fashion shows or at Pitti Uomo and from their strong passion for everything that is made in Italy. But probably,

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The “Bernstein-bookshop”

Wednesday, 16 January 2013 by Redazione

While in Italy many small bookshops are struggling to keep up with the big chains, in Germany, recently, one can see an opposite trend. Big chains like “Thalia” or “Weltbild” have to close branches due to falling sales and on the contrary, small bookshops are opening thanks to the initiative of booklovers and small publishers.