Business and ethics: we discuss the issue with Sebastiano Maffettone, author of Etica Pubblica (Public Ethics) (Il Saggiatore, 2001), chief editor of the journal Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche (Philosophy and Public Issues), lecturer of Political Philosophy and Social Ethics [ http://www.luiss.it ] and visiting professor at Harvard [ http://www.ha...

Burgeoning China and India are very much in the political and economic limelight lately. This once again means that Africa and its tragic conditions are put to shade, being considered little more than a source of natural riches ready for the pickings. This interview with the anthropologist Marco Aime, who spends long periods in Africa for his studi...

Formerly professor at Cambridge and currently Full Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence, the historian Paul Ginsborg is an important point of reference for the world of socially committed voluntary and charitable organisations. It's a world that includes a vast number of persons who all feel the need to actively ...

You were involved in the "50th Biennale" in Venice; in your opinion, what relevance and meaning do such events have in developing a new awareness/sensibility in the audience? I think that it is essential that events like this exist; they give some kind of overview on what is happening in art at the moment. We might like one biennale better than t...

2 questions to the 2 organisers of a unique, 2-yearly event: the Venice Biennale. What's art's role in building up awareness on such major issues as the environment, human rights, social development? Maria de Corral: Today's artists do not share a style, but an attempt to build personal aesthetic worlds, to establish their own formal needs, to ...

I pass through a corridor and a greenish light hits me, sharp and unbearable. Halfway along I notice a little table and a chair resting on the ceiling. My perceptive certainties, already challenged, fall away and lead me to wonder whether my legs are attached to the ground. This is one of the many works in which Bruce Nauman invites us to ask ou...

Predrag Matvejevic' 's [http://www.giardini.sm/matvejevic] personal history, his critical spirit, his intellectual career, and his commitment to defending civil rights and liberties have qualified him as one of the most intense and courageous speakers that may currently be listened to, and his words as genuine food for thought. It's a voice that ta...

Hasan Hujdur has the cool and calm collectedness that behoves a Dervish sage. Like a bridge over troubled waters, he spans the turbulent stream of wild and wily eddies and undercurrents that perturb the lives of lesser mortals. He’s a long-time denizen of Toledo, Oregon. But his own personal America is epitomised by a Buick Riviera of 1963 vintag...

nKA | ICA Indipendent Centre of Art Beograd Director: Biljana Tomic Art director and workshop manager: Dobrila Denegri In 2001, straight after the arrival of democracy in Serbia, the idea took off for a great meeting of young REAL PRESENCE artists. Biljana Tomic and I asked young emerging artists from all over Europe to come to Belgrade an...

We attempted to track down the inventor of the note-book, the great designer. He wasn't in his office and no amount of browsing was able to turn him up in the yellow pages, nor were history books any more revealing. We finally turned up Modo & Modo, a small 12-person strong firm, which actually whittled down to two, Francesco Franceschi and ...

Each second that passes means three more people are living on our planet. The demographic explosion - that has taken the world's population from 1.6 billion people at the beginning of the twentieth century to 6.12 billion at the start of the new millennium - is accelerating at an alarming rate, seriously threatening the planet's survival. The ec...