The Academy of Sweden sweeps everyone away once again, awarding the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature to an American poetess, professor at Yale, little known internationally: Louise Glück, born in New York in 1943 into a family of Jewish immigrants Hungarians, raised on Long Island. It is not the America of Don DeLillo or Cormac … Read more
Now the important thing not to lose your head, to speak little and clear, to identify simple rules and to enforce them; and above all to avoid the war of all against all, government and Regions, majority and opposition, Pd and 5 Stars. – In the most serious moments of our history, the moral strength … Read more
Farewell to Quino (Joaqun Salvador Lavado Tejn), the father of Mafalda he was 88 years old. All good people in the country and in the world will mourn him, his editor tweeted, Daniel Divinsky. The son of Spanish emigrants, Joaquin Salvador Lavado, this is the designer’s real name, was born in Mendoza on July 17, … Read more
She left on the day of the awarding of the Compasso d’oro, which she had won in 1979 for the sofa Strips, designed in 1968 for Arflex and exhibited in the permanent collection of the Milan Triennale. With Maria Cristina Mariani Dameno, married Boeri (born in Milan on 19 June 1924), universally known as Cini … Read more
We came out of the storm several. Worse or better? I would say: we have not gone back. In our own way, we have moved on. The pandemic has forced us to find within ourselves – in our cities, in our families, in our heads, in our hearts – resources we didn’t know we had. … Read more
It is the morning of December 31, 1960, “the first anniversary of the young and cheerful revolution that had put the dictator Fulgencio Batista to flight”. Under the ladder of the plane are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Françoise Sagan and an Italian journalist: Furio Colombo, who arrived from New York with a pencil visa … Read more
WASHINGTON DC, KOMPAS.com – Brayden Harrington (13) spoke on the final night Democratic National Convention and grab the attention of the participants. He talked about how the presidential candidate was Joe Biden made him feel more confident about his stutter CNN, Thursday (20/8/2020). Harrington relates that he met Biden in February at a campaign event … Read more
The confession had come in 2016, live and with a lot of irony, during one of the Artist Talk del Cima, the Center for Italian Modern art in New York: Morandi was for me a unique and unrepeatable master, not only of art, but also of modesty, generosity, passion for small things. Then citing his … Read more
“Everyone has a chance. You just have to be ready when it arrives. ” This word from Paul Bley, which closes the cover notes of Black Suite, number 49 of the BYG-Actuel series, took on its full meaning some forty years later. In 2007, Jacques Coursil knew how to seize his chance, by publishing Clamor, … Read more
Walter Tobagi was brutally killed because it represented what the brigatists denied and wanted to erase. He was a free journalist, who investigated reality beyond stereotypes and prejudices, and terrorists did not tolerate narratives other than their ideological schematism. He was a Democrat, a reformer, and this was unbearable for extremist fanaticism. He was a … Read more