Human rights, human wrongs: photography and human rights in London
The exhibition ‘Human Rights, Human Wrongs’, due to open in London on February 6 at the prestigious Photographers Gallery, has struck me immediately for its title. It embraces a timeframe that goes...
View ArticleHarvard Art Museum and Renzo Piano: a success story
The story that I want to tell you today justifies the reputation for excellence that ‘Made in Italy’ has earned all over the world. A story that touches me personally due to the fact that it involves...
View ArticleKonza, the silicon savannah
Kenya is laying out the path for technological development as Konza, the country’s techno city, is officially expected to be ready by 2019. A major investment: $14,5 billions that would put Kenya in a...
View ArticleIn outer space with Margaret and Samantha
In the past few months you’ve probably heard of Samantha Cristoforetti, Italy’s first woman in space, currently orbiting the Earth in the International Space Station (ISS). Today however I’d like to...
View ArticleA forest saved by drones
Drones – unpiloted or remotely piloted aerial vehicles – don’t seem to have a great reputation these days. However, I’d like to tell you about how they can be used as a positive tool, able even to save...
View ArticleOn Kawara at the Guggenheim in NYC
From February 6 the Guggenheim Museum in New York will be celebrating famous conceptual art maestro On Kawara. Born in 1932, he passed away in 2014 after a life spent between Japan and the US. We could...
View ArticleHow does fatigue work?
What if we were to discover that fatigue really doesn’t exist? Or that, at least scientifically, it doesn’t work the way we think. That’s exactly what a study carried out by Samuele Marcora, published...
View ArticleBig: Terry O’Neill’s shots on display in Miami
Terry O’Neill is a British photographer, class 1938: he has built his career on portraying big celebrities in their most intimate moments, from the 60s until now, just like Mario Testino, another...
View ArticleNOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE: EL CAPITAN, CALDWELL AND JORGESON
El Capitan is a mountain located in California’s Yosemite National Park, a 2,307 metre tall granitic monolith considered ‘the hardest climb in the world’. In January, US climbers Tommy Caldwell and...
View ArticleFROM CARAVAGGIO TO WARHOL: HOW THE GLOBAL ART MARKET IS CHANGING
2014 has been a record year for auction houses: Sotheby’s has sold $8,4 billion worth of artwork, while Christie’s intakes are around the $6 billion mark. Growing numbers if compared to the past few...
View ArticleANNIE LEIBOVITZ’S PILGRIMAGE
Just a few days left to visit Annie Leibovitz’s exhibition ‘Pilgrimage’ at the New York Historical Society, which marks a significant change of style for the world-renowned portrait photographer. On...
View ArticleTHE FUTURE OF APPLE
Apple’s last quarterly revenues have shocked the world: 75m iPhone sold, a profit of over $18b combined with extraordinary assets of over $178b. Never before a company has seen such an incredible...
View ArticleSURFING IN THE WOODS: THE PECULIAR STORY OF SNOWDONIA
When we think about surfing, our mind inevitably goes to California or Hawaii and their sun-kissed shores. The last place we would think of is probably Wales. Dolgarrog, however, a 500-people strong...
View ArticleSOUND, PAINTING AND IMAGES: CHRISTIAN MARCLAY AT LONDON’S WHITE CUBE
To outdo himself: a hard task for Christian Marclay, the experimental, visionary artist that shocked the world back in 2010 with his 24-hour long art video ‘The Clock’, a meticulously edited collection...
View ArticleWOMEN AND GENDER GAP, THE CHALLENGES OF TOMORROW’S JAPAN
In a historically patriarchal society such as Japan’s, women with leadership roles have always been scarce. Today the situation hasn’t changed much and in addition of being a cultural issue, it now has...
View ArticleWELL-MEANT ANXIETY: THE PHILOSOPHY OF WORRYING
Philosophy? It’s always been a remedy for anxiety, against the weight of life. From the Stoics, Aristotle, Plato to Kant, philosophy has always tried to find a way to explain and in some cases beat...
View ArticlePAINTING IS NOT DEAD: MARLENE DUMAS AT LONDON’S TATE MODERN
Every now and then someone comes up saying that painting is dead and that there is no longer room in both contemporary art and galleries for brushes and canvas. After all, it has been happening for...
View ArticleTHE FALL OF OIL AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF RENEWABLE ENERGIES
Is for everyone to see how the drop in oil prices is affecting the price of both services and goods but the change that we tend to notice more, of course, regards the price of petrol. Some people,...
View ArticleSeneca the Younger and our lifespan
How are we spending our time? An important question, one that requires us to slow down for a moment or even a few minutes. One of those questions that force us to stop, actually, and why not, to keep...
View ArticleBooms and bubbles: Asia’s real estate trends in a nutshell
A bubble is not a bubble unless it bursts, up until then it’s what we would call a ‘boom’, and that’s exactly what’s happening in the Asian real estate market, at least according to some analysts –...
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