Tag: Humanities
Mia Moretti and poetry as a therapy for the self – the case of an anthology
The kind of love for Mia Moretti: «the one that makes you see that in yourself and makes you want to grow to take yourself on a journey of growth»
The story of two emerging jewelry labels: Carolina Dória and Virginia Evangelista
Sustainable materials and virtual models coexisting with traditional craftsmanship. This is how the future of the jewelry industry looks for the upcoming designers
Cristian Chironi – New York Drive: Bringing art to the people in a Fiat 127 Special
A series of performances where generations intersect, communities converge, and different nations interact, all to the sound of a small, fifty-year-old car’s roaring engine
Jamie Hawkesworth: photography as an act of discovery – ‘The British Isles’ a visual survey
The naivety of the gaze and the lure for discovery animate photographer Jamie Hawkesworth's journeys. Travel as a moment of appreciation of the ordinary from which the most unexpected beauty...
«As my mother is getting older, I try to solidify memories with her» – Mateo Arciniegas’ intimate trip
«‘Nuestra Nueva York’ is a visual recollection of our past and serves as a physical memory of what has been our story in New York» Mateo Arciniegas for Lampoon
Managing the territory and its complexity: Gian Maria Tosatti’s portrait of Europe
«I want to know. Not believe. Not guess. I want to know» – Gian Maria Tosatti: not knowing what’s going on in ones’ territory can be a choice, but when...
The meaning of white in Iceland: a journey through the world of Tamara Ferioli
Tamara Ferioli’s artistic production is a visual diary of her life and inner world, connected to Iceland’s culture and natural landscapes
Renzo Piano, D.A.P. and Sapienza University join forces: a project for detained mothers
A modular house project built inside Rebibbia women’s penitentiary in Rome, giving detained mothers a space to be with their children in a more humane environment than the prison’s visiting...
Édouard Levé: What is Pornographie (2002)? Art, wisdom, and realization: no hypothesis
Édouard Levé through images: the embrace of one’s sensuality, sexuality, and individuality that feign disinterest to the prohibition sexual pleasure, arousal, and thoughts invoked
Eugenia Errázuriz – From South America to Paris and Biarritz pioneering an aesthetic of subtractions
Eugenia Huici Arguedas de Errázuriz paved the way for the modernist minimalist aesthetic that would be taken up in fashion by Coco Chanel
Bellini Nautica preserving the world’s most precious boats – the Riva Aquarama
Romano Bellini’s vintage Riva collection and the yard where he restores these ‘Ferraris of the sea’ «you can be as rich as you want, but if you close the door...
Breaking down mental barriers – Priya Ragu: Damnshestamil is the debut mixtape
Starting from the title and express herself in multiple languages, the Swiss-Tamil artist introduces herself and her mixed cultural background
Lauren Auder – diving from literature and hip hop to Baroque
The twenty-three years old singer-songwriter and producer talks about her last EP, 5 Songs for the Dysphoric, and her experiences in music and fashion
Art Thou, Polimoda – best works selected by the curator Massimiliano Giornetti
Emotional awakening is the emblem of this collection and considers the new professionals as drivers in this respect through their visions
Lampoon – Diverso: I have shot unripe vegetables rather than flowers
Photographer Stefano Ortega letting the human being entering into an undefined love/friendship with the soil.«I want the proximity/distance to the subject to be clear»
Welcome to the Dollhouse – identity crossdressing and coming out in Italy
Armando Borno recounts the Seventies «They would take you to the police station to redact a minute where they would describe how you were dressed and what kind of make-up...
Sarai Mari and art photography – «a personal thing, a personal exertion for what catches the eye»
In conversation with Japanese photographer on appreciating the value in the place she calls home, after living in New York City for six years
Yanomami: Claudia Andujar keeps on counteracting the objectification of indigenous tribes
«I am connected to the indigenous, to the land, to the struggle. I have always searched for the meaning of life in this core», photographer Claudia Andujar
What would have been a simple project, became a fashion story – Sergio Calderoni
A Walt Disney cartoon called Mickey and the Beanstalk in which the antagonist was a giant playful kid and his gestures became the mood of the shooting
Textile Clay and laundry waste: Jorge Penadés, Microfiber as a raw material rather than pollutant
The Spanish designer Jorge Penadés recreates traditional handicraft materials using microfiber pollutants instead of natural resources
Author Marlowe Granados offers a guide to female confidence in her book Happy Hour
Women rule in Happy Hour, men merely persist at the side-lines. Granados smiles, «I could not imagine writing a novel about these girls trying to find boyfriends»
IPCC’s latest assessment report – we can still live in a healthy planet if we act now
Some of the consequences of global warming are here to stay, but achieving a healthy and livable planet is still possible with strong emissions reductions. How to do it?
The expanded version of Genesis: Tessa Dixson gives it a second life
«I am starting fresh and this time I would like to start from zero». Singer and model Tessa Dixon on her new single and her approach to music during the...
Veronica de Angelis – When in Rome: using art to highlight key environmental issues
«Discussions surrounding climate change just aren’t engaging» – Veronica e Angelis speaks on the separation of awareness and feeling when it comes to conscious engagement
Radio Raheem – It is easy to make a radio, it is hard to make a good one
Discovering a Milan-based web radio, born in 2017 from the minds of music and culture professionals to connect people and ideas
The syncopation phenomenon: Anri Sala is an enhancer of awareness
Anri Sala: «My work is linked to this tension taking place between on-beat and off-beat within the architecture of syncopation»
Emergency and Renzo Piano together to build Entebbe Children Surgical Hospital
Twenty percent of the project was paid for by the Ugandan Ministry of Health. Built with the rammed rammed earth technique, the hospital has more than two thousand solar panels
In 2000 Nino Cerruti sold Cerruti 1881 and dedicated himself to the Lanificio Fratelli Cerruti
The Italian primacy in the processing of fabrics is also a matter of water – fresh, poor in minerals and calcium. Yarns and human paths in eastern Piedmont, the textile...
Manual versus automatic concepts – Nabil Nayal is mixing old and new patterns
Syrian designer, Nabil Nayal, brings the concept of affordable sustainability combining historical and contemporary patterns
Senegal, a bridge to Milan: Maria Manga balances her roots
«More than a search for elements of inspiration, the roots of the past balance the union between what is and what will be»
Flowers and Art: William Farr puts together flowers and waste materials
«It’s a statement on nature, detritus, about chaos and about human hunt». William Farr’s artworks questioning on materialistic obsessions and human assumptions
The poetry of masturbation and self-pleasure explained in a documentary
Masturbation, shame and societal taboos are the point of discussion of the independent documentary Four verses of self-pleasure
Cutting bodies and pasting parts: the art of Pablo Thecuadro
The wholeness of his artwork forms a jigsaw puzzle against a backdrop made of cutouts, the reflection of the Spanish artist as a collage artist
Patricia Urquiola and the gamble of designing from secondhand materials
Fun Aristocracy: Inlays and buildings, damasks and plots, some exponents of a ‘Fun Aristocracy’ – talents undeclared from titles
Chris Moore on photographing the buzz of a fashion show for sixty years
A changing industry and changing times. Photographer Chris Moore, a pioneer of runway photography, discussed the ups and downs of six decades spent in front of a camera
It could be a political agenda: flowers to investigate African historical narratives
Flowers for Africa is the winning project of the Prix Marcel Duchamp. Kapwani Kiwanga is urging the public to question existing historical narratives in African decolonization
Stasi is the new album from Populous: about slow-flowing music
The mix of instrumental hip hop and ambient music recalls the beginnings of Populous as a producer and his debut in the international electronic scene
Milkywire – How Gen Z are moving charitable giving online
Gen Z are becoming the driving forces for change on climate action. Forms like apps are showing an easier way to connect with grassroot climate organizations
The New European Bauhaus: «sectoral, geographical and age diversity»
The Bauhaus was founded at a time of transformation - the time we are now living in is just as transformative - talking to Xavier Troussard, head of the project
Ovum – family, circularity, rebirth. Artists ponder the meaning and shape of eggs
The recurrence of a process marks the sign of rebirth as art imitates life in his rendition of the egg. Six artists share their own visions of Ovum
Dior Her – Maria Grazia Chiuri: it’s no longer about clothes, but about political efforts
We should all be feminist because this is (still) a men’s world: «Hers is a world to be discovered, in which she lets you enter gradually»
Eurovision for the future: Live music begins again thanks to the Song Contest edition in Rotterdam
Cultural diversity expressed through pop music is the European method of choice to have a head start after more than one year without live performances
Past and future in Iran: can money become a religion again?
The decline of the ideological factions and installation of a metamodern consumer hedonism has even managed to take hold in the Persia of legends
Dries Van Noten and Ms Kehayoglou: carpets and bridges to bring diversities closer
Weaving vanishing landscapes with the rigor of a scientist and the lyricism of a poet, Alexandra Kehayoglou is known for her 1.44 kilometer long green carpet on the Dries Van...
Farah Diba, the Empress: «with great power comes great responsibility»
«In the end, I decided to visit Niavaran Palace, almost as if this were an implicit tribute to my mother» - the Italian writer and architect Gianni Biondillo on history...
No rules in love, but condoms: there should be no limit to sexual experimentation
The condom series – make love with whoever you want: an invitation to be promiscuous whenever you want, but always kind. Four writers, four stories, about sex
