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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
From the streets of New York: The “Festival of Ideas for the New City”
-> From the streets of New York: The "Festival of Ideas for the New City"The “Festival of Ideas for the New City” is a first time event created by the New Museum, together with an association of universities and downtown organizations, with the common dream of finding future possibilities for the city. The festival, that just took place, included various conferences, lectures, workshops, numerous public events an...
continue..UNA: the wine of the Unification of Italy presented at Vinitaly in Verona
-> UNA: the wine of the Unification of Italy presented at Vinitaly in VeronaCamillo Benso, the Prime Minister of the 1861 newly born Italian Kingdom, used to say: “We created Italy, let’s now start creating Italians”. It took 150 years to cultivate and enhance the people feeling to belong together, to be “part of”. However, in Italy, I believe it is still a work in progress. Indeed I think Italians were facing ...
continue..“Big is more”: Bjarke Ingels´ new architecture project in New York
-> "Big is more": Bjarke Ingels´ new architecture project in New YorkThe great names in architecture didn't have a lot of luck in New York City, recently. Not that they didn’t try. For a tiny lot on the East river, Santiago Calatrava designed a giant cantilevered step ladder in the sky. It was supposed to be the highest apartment building in the city, but nobody dared to buy one of the “residential cubes”. The...
continue..2011: let´s celebrate the 10th anniversary of illywords!
-> 2011: let´s celebrate the 10th anniversary of illywords!2011 is a milestone for illywords. This year we are having the tenth anniversary of the magazine and we would like to warmly celebrate it on our illywords blog which is young but nevertheless able to reach a wide group of friends. To keep track of some illywords’ thoughts of the past ten years, we came up with the idea of developing in our blog ...
continue..Sam Taylor Wood at Brooklyn Museum of Art (Fall 2010)
-> Sam Taylor Wood at Brooklyn Museum of Art (Fall 2010)Sam Taylor-Wood’s Ghosts, a 2008 photographic exploration of the Yorkshire moors, will be on display this Fall in New York. The exhibition in the Herstory Gallery of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art will be up from October 30, 2010 to August 14, 2011. Taylor-Wood has had solo shows in Barcelona, Z...
continue..@ Moma
-> @ MomaI finlandesi lo chiamano miukumauku, il miagolio, e lo vedono come un gatto arrotolato che dorme. Per i sudafricani rappresenta la coda di una scimmia, per i russi un cane, per i cinesi un piccolo topo. Per italiani e francesi invece è una chiocciola. A livello universale è il simbolo che divide in due gli indirizzi di posta elettronica. Stiam...
continue..What’s On, week of May 3 2010
-> What's On, week of May 3 2010This week's bouquet of What's On is international: China, USA, Italy. On Now Until August 29 in Beijing, China: Rem(a)inders. an exhibition at the Beijing branch of Galleria Continua (a contemporary gallery with its home in San Gimignano, Tuscany). The exhibit opens with an impressive installation by Michelangelo Pistoletto that made the ne...
continue..…Artistic movement
Magazine -> #10 Nomadic knowledge“Fare forth” is the overwhelming imperative of our times. Each according to her/his life style - on a white sofa fitted with wheels, in a shabby dinghy, or playfully in a portable pool like those invented by Andrea Zittel for personalised caravans in the nineties. We’re nomads, be it for pleasure or out of necessity. It’s a paradox, but ...
continue..What’s on (March 1)
-> What's on (March 1)What's on for the week of March 1 2010 - a weekly listing of exhibits and events from members of the illywords community. RIGHT NOW Milan: Diego Paccagnella, who contributed to the very first issue (#0), has developed an innovative type of showroom for Lago, called Appartamento Lago: not a hotel lobby with design furniture but a real apartm...
continue..Art Fairs? Impressive
-> Art Fairs? ImpressiveI have just arrived at the Arco Art Fair in Madrid. Have you ever visited an art fair? If the answer is no, then DO IT! You will enter a never-seen-before world. An art fair is more than a solo exposition or one artist's performance. It is a "cosmo" around which several artists, galleries, interests, hopes and emotions frantically revolve. ...
continue..Refresh America
Magazine -> #14 RefreshThe United States has been called the land of opportunity, the place where life can begin anew. Today America is a destination for young people from all over the world who want to further their studies. The best American Universities attract talent, allow direct contact with research and support student innovation. We met one of these talents, Enri...
continue..Parsons School of Design, New York
Magazine -> #14 RefreshEditorial Illustration, the primary market for illustrators in the United States, has been experiencing a decline in recent years. However, the territory outside of the traditional publishing market has been expanding at a rapid rate. The class Beyond Editorial, whose work is featured here, explores this fruitful landscape, giving students a taste ...
continue..SVA. School of Visual Arts in New York City
Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentallySchool of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City was founded in 1947 as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, with 35 students and three instructors. Today, SVA is one of the leading visual arts colleges in the U.S., with a student body of over 3,000 undergraduates, 400 graduate students and 2,200 continuing education students from almost every stat...
continue..Straight on target
Magazine -> #6 OrientationDetermined action but also long, drawn-out, wearisome even, negotiations. In any case, all committed efforts aimed at reaching an objective, at achieving a goal. But what if purpose is blurred? Let us then come to terms with the essential meaning of artistic endeavour and the artist’s strivings and struggle. Straight on target. Like Lucio Font...
continue..Freed passion
Magazine -> #4 PassionA quick review of the artistic passions, emotional drive, irresistible attractions and unmotivated fury of artists that are capable of making history. Marina Abramovic and her boyfriend Ulay run in great strides towards each other, as if attracted by a magnet. Their bodies slam into each other. They fall, they get up, they do it again and agai...
continue..The opinion
Magazine -> #20 Home MadeWhen it comes to the business world, I am absolutely convinced that the kind of creativity that leads to real innovation can only develop “in house” – in other words the place where all the input from day-to-day relations with clients and products is received and digested. To paraphrase the Chinese saying ”Listen and forget, see and remembe...
continue..The happy city
Magazine -> #19 AequòpolisThe pre-industrial city was one in which classes mingled, where the aristocrats were on one floor, the middle class on another, and the working class on yet another, all in the same building. With the advent of the industrialised society, there was a shift in the functions of each social class. This led to the working class ghettos, upper class ...
continue..City: a history book
Magazine -> #19 AequòpolisObviously, the imagination feeds on knowledge. You need to know things before you can imagine them. This is where it comes in handy to read books about that concentrated mass of human history: cities. In Europe, large cities are usually unsuitable, even to accommodate modernity. Even in a metropolis like London or Paris, where large avenues were ...
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