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November 30th, 2009
Published in Segnalazioni
by Alex Cevenini
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November 23rd, 2009
Published in Culture, Segnalazioni
by Giovanni Biglino
Her work has become symbolic of a media-driven society since the 1980s. With a retrospective of her early small-scale pieces, Barbara Kruger lands to London and her “paste ups” – and so is titled the exhibition – are currently on show at the London branch of the Sprüth Magers Gallery. Summing together technique and imagery from the Futurists, the Dada and the Pop movement, Kruger has [...]
November 23rd, 2009
Published in Attualità, Columns
by Hackney bird
I woke up on Saturday morning dreaming of my weekly hit of Weasel turd coffee. Sadly however, I looked out the window and was confronted by a dark and tempestuous sky. Oh well, Broadway market was just going to have to wait this week. Anyway, I’m sure I’ve already given the owner of Ca Phe Zgoz, the Vietnamese coffee stall that produces the aforementioned drink, more than enough [...]
November 18th, 2009
Published in Attualità, Opinioni, Opinions
by Laurence Yème
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November 18th, 2009
Published in Attualità, Culture, Opinioni
by Giovanni Biglino
During the course of the 17th edition of the French Film Festival UK , alongside with a retrospective of Jacques Tati’s filmography and a homage to Jean Eustache, another iconic French personality has been honoured: Françoise Sagan. In recent years several French symbols have had their bio-pic and in fact Marion Cotillard has interpreted Edith Piaf, Audrey Tatou was Coco Chanel, while Romain [...]
November 16th, 2009
Published in Attualità, Blog, Opinions
by Filippo Spreafico
Once a person lands on foreign shores, the first attempts to untangle the web of a different set of cultural features start from certain linguistic observations. These sudden epiphanies are linguistic revelations that illuminate the way towards the understanding of that new cultural world the foreigner has landed in. A clear example of this conundrum can be found with a comparison between [...]
November 16th, 2009
Published in Attualità, Blog
by Hackney bird
When I was a little girl my mother used to make me go and kiss people with chicken pox so that I would get it and not run the risk of getting it in my older life and becoming infertile. Unfortunately I never did manage to contract the disease, so I suppose I’m still at risk and might ruin my chances of having lots of little kiddlywinks. I’ll probably end up having to do a Brangelina, although now [...]