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Sardines: the Magical Silhouette

Imagination has no limits, when one is confined to the shape of a sardine. In Lisbon, sardine symbolizes love and June is the month for one of Portugal’s main cultural events, the Sardine Festival. The festival honors the iconic 12th Century St. Anthony, the patron saint of Lisbon, who left for Italy to preach the gospel. Sadly, the Italians ignored [...]

By |June 20th, 2019|Categories: Notes Around the World|Comments Off on Sardines: the Magical Silhouette

A Social Revolution

Abstract Expressionism, which in the 50s revolutionized painting and veered art towards a new direction of experimentation and individual freedom, now strikes again with new impact at the Tampa Museum of Art in Florida, United States. Under the title of Abstract Expressionism: A Social Revolution, a selection of 25 paintings loaned by the famous art collector and Floridian businessman Preston [...]

By |June 8th, 2019|Categories: Featured|Comments Off on A Social Revolution

Antunes at Venice’s Biennal 2019

Every two years, art shakes up the world with La Biennale Di Venezia . In this year’s international art event, the 58th version, Portugal has brought one of its most representative artists Leonor Antunes with an ambitious project that connects contemporary values to both historical and 20th century Italian architecture and design. Under the title of “A seam, a surface, [...]

By |May 20th, 2019|Categories: Notes Around the World|Comments Off on Antunes at Venice’s Biennal 2019

Impermanent Life

From afar, it looks like an abstract painting made up of dots, of cherry blossoms and strange terrains that seem to flow and float. It traps your attention, your interest, your curiosity. As you approach, you start to see that the image is not static, that every single dot moves in unison, coordinated with the precision of a Swiss watch, [...]

By |May 14th, 2019|Categories: On the Edge|Comments Off on Impermanent Life

Surrounded Islands

A city gains its reputation rightfully or erroneously, but to change that perception in people’s hearts, it needs a good idea. A great idea. A monumental idea. Miami is known for many things, a retirement paradise, a passageway for drug trafficking, a hurricane magnet. A clichéd image of sun, fun and stupidity. A cultural wasteland…until 1980, when Jan van der [...]

By |January 10th, 2019|Categories: Featured|Comments Off on Surrounded Islands

Dancing in the Rain

Art can be fun. It can make you laugh, run for cover, be amazed, play like a child. And forget to ask where does art start and why bother with the question: is this art? I did not know what to expect when I walked into the Rain Room in the West Bund Art District of Shanghai. There was a [...]

By |December 19th, 2018|Categories: Notes Around the World|Comments Off on Dancing in the Rain
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