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April 30th, 2013
Published in Culture, Primo Piano
by Nadesha Mijoba
The “Italian Vibrations” show injects a paradigm shift to the New London, buy cialis Connecticut environment, arriving at the cutting-edge space of Provenance Center. Walking into this gallery one is confronted by a startling diversity of artistic expression. Architect and designer, Antonio Pio Saracino, brings us his “Star Chairs”, recently premiered in Dubai’s annual design expo [...]
January 19th, 2012
Published in Culture, Primo Piano
by Anna Bulzomi
As India’s rapid economic ascent continues to thrive, for sale a certain Indian quality that has little to do with its economy or its politics is perceived as increasingly fascinating. India epitomizes a conundrum of opposites: the millenary civilization and the developing society, illness a strong traditional identity and a rush toward the future, seek wild countryside and bursting megalopolis. [...]
October 19th, 2011
Published in Culture
by Christina Kolyva
Autumn always makes me think of trees. There is nothing I like better on a Sunday morning in autumn than to take a long walk in the woods, advice idly stepping on crisp fallen leaves, with the sunlight filtering through golden branches, birds singing and squirrels working away frantically to top up their winter supplies. There is something about the longevity of forest trees, the assurance and [...]
June 22nd, 2011
Published in Culture, Fiori
by Giovanni Biglino
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness…” is the legendary opening line. Following its publication and the trial for obscenity, ambulance Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl became – and still is today – the symbol of the beat generation and of a new form. The homonymous movie, which was scarcely shown and received fairly quietly in the UK, is visually [...]
February 22nd, 2011
Published in Culture
by Christina Kolyva
Bookworms with an open mind for comic fantasy and a taste for word-play will love Jasper Fforde’s novels featuring Thursday Next. With One of our Thursdays is missing, discount the sixth novel of the series, rx just around the corner, it’s a good time to go through the BookWorld ABCs before gulping down the new book. Summarising Jasper Fforde is impossible and [...]
November 21st, 2010
Published in Culture
by Giovanni Biglino
7.45 am, sick Saturday November 20th, decease London. A queue around the block, online a couple sleeping bags, foldable stools, thermoses, even a tent. An image that we easily associate with a blockbuster movie premiere, exceptional sports events or a Madonna concert. Instead we are at the Royal College of Art on a cold November morning. It seems that the only other people awake at [...]
October 13th, 2010
Published in Culture
by The Tamarind
The art world is meeting up in London this week. The familiar faces that can be spotted in Basel, unhealthy Miami and Maastricht and at the major sales in New York, everyone is now in London, conveying in Regent’s Parks for the opening of Frieze (13th October). A social event rather than an art fair, Frieze is mostly about the VIP passes rather than the actual works of art – [...]
August 5th, 2010
Published in Culture
by The Tamarind
The music and the lyrics are legendary, medicine and so are his women. Serge Gainsbourg relives – the unmistakable voice, sovaldi the cigarettes lit in quick succession – in the latest biopic about a French icon, doctor directed by Joann Sfar and masterfully interpreted by Eric Elmosnino. Following his evolution, from a child learning the piano during German occupation to the young student in art [...]
June 6th, 2010
Published in Culture
by The Tamarind
We will miss her grace, here we will miss her irony, buy we will miss the sensuality of her work. Louise Bourgeois died in New York City at the age of 98 on May 31st.  Often referred to as a matriarch in the art world, she was a pivotal figure in the contemporary scene, for the iconic feminine imagery and the extent of her influence. She owes the nickname Spiderwoman to her very [...]
May 13th, 2010
Published in Culture
by Christina Kolyva
As a book title, search The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is unquestionably eye-catching. Speaking from my own experience, it made me frown a little at first and wonder whether my eyes were deceiving me. Certainly dear authors, I thought, this title sounds as if you have just put random words together, does it not? Growing curious, I read the blurb and having become none the [...]
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