Rain may be falling heavily on many musicians during the pandemic, but it is not the case for Bob Dylan. Universal Music announced Monday that its publishing division has bought the entire catalog, with more than 600 songs, of the 79-year-old legend. The value of the agreement is estimated in hundreds of millions of dollars. … Read more
Sometimes certain details are enough to understand how the context around us is in motion. In the first half of the year, Italy lost just a little more jobs than the countries around us: minus 2.96% against a 2.83% drop in the European Union, according to Eurostat. At first glance, it could have been much … Read more
Funtil a few years ago, the main communication tool for a primary hospital was the so-called buzzer. A small transceiver device that made it possible to be traced at any time. Students and trainees looked at him with admiration. Possession of a buzzer was a sign of authority, a demonstration of occupying a high rung … Read more
On the sidelines of the G-20 summit held in Saudi Arabia, a document was made public dell’Institute of international finance which greatly worried heads of state and government who, due to Covid, followed the meeting from afar. According to the figures that are read in these papers and which are confirmed (or directly provided) from … Read more
Marco Santagata, writer, literary critic and university professor, author of essays and novels, in serious condition in hospital in Pisa. Contrary to the news that had spread at first, the scholar was not dead but in an irreversible coma. He fell ill with Covid-19, with the virus grafted onto an already delicate clinical situation. – … Read more
Joy and pain have an uncertain boundary, in the season that lights up the face. The phrase by Fabrizio De Andr, sung in Ave Maria (1971, from The good news) expands, like a colored prayer, at the center of a great work signed by Marco Nereo Rotelli. – Luigi Piccinini The painting is the first … Read more
An election can be an adventure. Illusions and passion combine, you can fall for it. A re-election, a marriage. A thoughtful choice, a decision full of consequences, where the feeling is mixed with a project. This is the difference between the US presidential vote in 2016 and this one in 2020. If the United States … Read more
With a package of “lockdown-like” measures it is possible halve the reproduction index R in 4 weeks, which measures the transmission capacity of the virus. To say it is a study by the University of Edinburgh, Published on Lancet Infectious Diseases, which takes data from 131 countries. – Public events The authors compared the various … Read more
Only a few days ago at the Milan Triennale, what was supposed to be a tribute to one of the most important and innovative designers of the twentieth century was inaugurated: Enzo Mari curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Francesca Giacomelli. Enzo Mari, protagonist of this exhibition (which will remain open until April 18, Electa … Read more
Vwe are under the effect of a double analgesic. But we don’t notice or pretend nothing has happened. Understandable in the face of the autumn onset of the virus. Public debt will grow by almost two hundred billion at the end of 2020. It was (partly) inevitable. These are numbers that we remove in normalcy, … Read more