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The life of Jo Van Gogh in a three-voice play written by Federico Giannini

How could we resist? We can only justify ourselves by saying that we could not refuse the proposal of Paolo Tognocchi, president of the City of Cascina Theater, when he proposed that we put on a show about the story of Johanna Bonger Van Gogh, Vincen...
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How to navigate the art world from A to Z (and make lots of new friends and girlfriends)

This article is dedicated to those who find pleasure in looking at a work, those who go to a gallery regardless of the buffet, those who are surprised by the price of a painting. To those who do not speak English and participate in an organized trip ...
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Thanks for following us again in August: nearly 800,000 readers for Finestre Sull'Arte

Without unnecessary preamble: in August Finestre Sull'Arte was read by almost 800,000 people, to be precise there were 795,000 of you*. Really a lot, I thank you all, both You who read us online, and You who read us in our quarterly paper: I thank yo...
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Indiana Jones and the Cursed Pizza

I read with sympathy Alberto Angela's recent interview in which he recounted his meeting with Harrison Ford on the occasion of the release of the latest chapter in the Indiana Jones saga, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. In Repubblica, the nati...
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Now that we have let off steam with the Venus, are we ready to receive tourists?

And while everyone was talking about Botticelli's Venus and how wrong, unsuitable, inappropriate, embarrassing, cringeworthy, inappropriate the campaign signed by the Armando Testa studio for the Ministry of Tourism was, the tourist season has begun....
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Private individuals and culture: a future is possible. But the ideal world does not exist

In our country, more clearly than in others, the great economic resources that wealthy men of the past, whether these princes, popes, bankers, captains of fortune, spent to embellish their courts and their cities are manifest and obvious, and...
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Art with influencers, from Chiara Ferragni to Will Smith: instructions for use

These days there is a lot of talk about the photos posted on Chiara Ferragni's Instagram profile, in which the most famous influencer in our country is portrayed in front of the Colosseum, in front of St. Peter's, the Vatican Museums and in the Sisti...
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Spiritual power and temporal power. Images of Pope Francis and Sergio Mattarella compared

Exceptional times we are living, so exceptional that on the same day the two highest personalities of our country entered our homes. In order of appearance, Pope Francis and the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella: and if perhaps we did n...
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