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The "small world" of Brisighella, in inland Romagna.

Territories, some territories, also resist. To the outrages of time, to earthquakes and floods, to the disasters of History. They resist abandonment, they do not yield to the Siren song that whispers of other speeds, other places and escapes. Staying...
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The magical luthier's hole in Calbano, Romagna

In Calban, Romagna, there is a luthier who collects resin from trees. He personally fetches it in Trentino to build his finest instruments, Italian guitars and violas, the old-fashioned way. He, Elvis Moro, uses not only resin but also animal glues a...
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The upside-down world of Yayoi Kusama

"Alice was dying of boredom [...], she had peeked a few times at the book her sister was reading, but there were no figures or dialogue." Yayoi Kusama was also bored to death as a child, forced to read a life not her own through lenses tarnished by o...
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The art of Leonor Fini, sorceress and female icon

Sorceress, shaman, female icon, Leonor Fini (Buenos Aires, 1907 - Paris, 1996), with her seductive and disturbing works, has "frightened" respecters of all ages, reopening questions that remain unresolved even today. An unclassifiable woman and artis...
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When art studies melting glaciers. Roberto Ghezzi's work in Greenland.

It is now clear: environmental sustainability is also decisive in museums and in the framework of artistic-cultural projects. Both with the ratification of the Faro Convention by the Italian government(September 2020) in which new perspectiv...
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Once upon a time, Zungri, the stone town in Calabria.

Among narrow, slippery streets carved into the rock, clumsy cliffs overlooking a skyless horizon, in southern Italy, there is a "stone town," Zungri, pulled up mostly by natural caves of varying size, which still holds too many secrets. Ma...
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Palazzo Madama, Turin: a visit with new director Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa

Welcome to Palazzo Madama. Welcome dreams. We are in Turin, in what Guido Gozzano called the "House of Centuries," a place of strategic importance for the history of Italy and which will be directed for four years by Giovanni Carlo Federico V...
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The silk road in Calabria: to San Floro, where worms are bred and silk is spun

"Although his father had imagined for him a brilliant future in the army, Hervé Joncour had ended up earning a living from an unusual trade [...]. For a living, Hervé Joncour bought and sold silkworms" (Alessandro Baricco, Silk)...
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