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Smiles, Grief, Women and Children: Domon Ken’s Human Eye on Japan
More than 150 photographs of the Japanese master Domon Ken (1909, Sakata - 1990, Tokyo) are displayed in the white and minimalist...
Giulia Carletti
19 lug 2016Tempo di lettura: 3 min
Art Market: 3 Unwritten Rules to Protect It
Why pay the bank to look after your billions when you can buy a Picasso? Imagine you were a billionaire and had an interest in buying...
Patricia Plaszczyk
17 lug 2016Tempo di lettura: 3 min
Thomas Love Peacock: Irony and British Common Sense
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) is not as famous as other nineteenth-century British writers, but his fame rests on his conversational...
Andre Di Carlo
16 lug 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Maths and a Black Hole: The Zero Theorem
In a dystopian future, Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz) is a social outcast who works as a programmer for a company called Mancom. He loathes...
Cersosimo Francesca Laura
15 lug 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
L'Image Volée: Thomas Demand in Milan
Thomas Demand,Vault, 2012. Courtesy of Fondazione Prada. On show at the Fondazione Prada in Milan, the first Italian exhibition curated...
Maria Vittoria Di Sabatino
12 lug 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
5 awesome facts about Scorsese's After Hours
Shot in 1985, After Hours is one of the most unexpected movies by Martin Scorsese, filmed in a dark time of his career and surprisingly...
Francesca Laura Cersosimo
10 lug 2016Tempo di lettura: 3 min
An Italian Tale: Enzo D'Alò and his Paper Dreams
If we talk about animation in Italy, Enzo D’Alò is definitely the first name to come up. He wrote and directed cartoons based on...
Tommaso Carlo Mascolo
6 lug 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Clowns, Trees, and Time: Ugo Rondinone in Rome
During my teens, I visited some areas of Southern Italy and I was fascinated by secular olive trees. They were huge, majestic, and...
Flavia Catarinelli
5 lug 2016Tempo di lettura: 3 min
A Story About Women That Every Man Should Read
Have you ever pictured a happier life than the one you are living? This is what happens to Rachel, a girl addicted to alcohol, who...
Antonella Codeferi
2 lug 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
A desire to be and to be with: A Tomboy story
“Everyone is the other and no one is himself.” This is clearly one of the most provocative passages from Heidegger’s masterpiece, Sein...
Jasmine Manari
30 giu 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Inevitable Empires: Do We Buy Huang Yong Ping’s Vision?
Monumenta 2016 - Huang Yong Ping – Empire, photo © http://www.loeil2fred.com/. Courtesy of the artist and Kamel Mennour, Paris. Yes....
Giulia Carletti
28 giu 2016Tempo di lettura: 3 min
Pocahontas vs Buzz: 5 differences between Disney and Pixar
We call the decade from 1989 to 1999 the “Disney Renaissance”, in which Walt Disney Animation Studios returned to being a great success...
Tommaso Carlo Mascolo
23 giu 2016Tempo di lettura: 3 min
Existentialism Covered in Colorful Dots
The world is made out of polka dots. This is the world of Japan’s most famous artist, Yayoi Kusama, who is the subject of the touring...
Patricia Plaszczyk
21 giu 2016Tempo di lettura: 3 min
War, Capitalism and… Liberty? Or Freedom?
With the Quartiere Ostiense emerging as the street-art district of Rome and with an increasing number of galleries displaying street art...
Maria Vittoria di Sabatino
20 giu 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Catch a ride on Taxi Teheran
Catch a ride through the chaotic streets of Teheran with director Jafar Panahi at the wheel and the people of the city in the back seat....
Francesca Laura Cersosimo
16 giu 2016Tempo di lettura: 3 min
Some Notes on T.S. Eliot: for a Complex Modernism
From an epistemological point of view, the nineteenth century bade defiance to long-established knowledge. Lyell and Darwin, through...
Andrea Di Carlo
9 giu 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Trastevere Film Festival: Free Cinema for Everybody
If you like the cinema, Trastevere is the right place for you. Every day, during June and July, Piazza San Cosimato becomes a wonderful...
Tommaso Carlo Mascolo
8 giu 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
What's Up On Monday According to Camille Henrot
Camille Henrot, A Long Face, fresco, 2016, Fondazione Memmo, Rome. Courtesy of Fondazione Memmo. What does Monday mean for you? Of...
Flavia Catarinelli
3 giu 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Paris Is Burning, between spectacularization
The 1990s American documentary Paris Is Burning has definitely sparked a great deal of critical debate among the LGBTQI community...
Jasmine Manari
2 giu 2016Tempo di lettura: 3 min
The Little We Know About the Nude and the Naked
What is it with the nude that induces such emotional reactions? One of the reasons might be that they often generate associations of...
Patricia Plaszczyk
29 mag 2016Tempo di lettura: 3 min
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