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Last Issue: #31 The Journey
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
Your summer holiday in Italy: “sea, mountain, or museum?”
-> Your summer holiday in Italy: "sea, mountain, or museum?"Here in Italy, summer, especially July and August, represent an exodus from the cities towards the peninsula's coasts. Some companies actually shut down for the entire month of August. Cities empty out while beaches become so crowded you can hardly find a spot to lay down your towel. Although more and more people are now choosing to take their holi...
continue..Can I offer you a cocktail with that painting?
-> Can I offer you a cocktail with that painting?There’s a new trend in Italy that can best be called “museum happy hour”. Already present in the USA in years past, it consists of museums attempting to attract new and returning visitors by proposing evening openings combined with music, food, and drinks. Is this a brilliant concept on the part of art museums, or are they selling out? In ...
continue..Museum Happy Hour Directory
-> Museum Happy Hour DirectoryI wrote about the phenomenon of the "Museum Happy Hour" and I thought it would be useful to create a list, or directory, of the best museum evening events. They're a great way to enjoy an evening with art, or "the arts", as they often combine music, visual arts, performance and of course food and drink. If you're visiting one of the cities liste...
continue..Growing amazement
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseFrom weeping to the research of the lost emotion. In Pictures and Tears (Routledge) James Elkins, art historian and critic, professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, appealed for and collected more than four hundred contributions from very different people, who told him which artwork the armour we use to try to defend ourselves from ...
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