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
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
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