arts

The city has suffered tremendously from the lack of entertainment and the need to remain indoors. In a city that thrives on its cultural offerings, the majority of many institutions have remained closed, and the museums that have opened are...

“I wanted to show two things with my camera: the things that had to be appreciated, and the things that had to be corrected. Photography reveals beauty and truth. And truth sometimes is not very pleasant. I learned about the...

The silk makers were well travelled business people, but they were also conscious of their responsibilities and believed that the poor, in this case the abandoned children, had as much right to beauty as others. They entrusted the responsibility for...

I talked about all this with Amy Frances Quint, an American actress, born and raised in Rome until her adolescence and who moved to the States to start her career as an actress, and Austin Pendleton, noted actor, director, and...

It’s the second month of lockdown here in New York. The State of New York, starting May 15, will reopen low risk activities but only in the upstate regions. NYC will remain locked down, with only essential activities working and...

The Peeping Tom group blends dance, acrobatics, acting and singing, and nails all these disciplines in a hyper-realistic aesthetic, stuck into real stage sets, but unsettled or distorted by a perceptive and human instability, which contradicts every rational logic of...

In the late 18th century, Neo-Classical sculptor Antonio Canova was proclaimed the new Phidias, the new Praxiteles, and his studio was a “must-see” stop for travelers on the official Grand Tour. His many VIP patrons throughout Europe included Popes Pius...

Isadora improvised, following precise guidelines, listening to her body…She danced with her joyfully turgid body, barefoot, wrapped in a Hellenistic peplos, and with movement inspired by the undulating motion of sea waves and the flight of birds….enjoying both controversy and...

The decadence of “Hollywood on the Tiber” played a crucial part in transforming the image of Italy from that of a struggling country, into a glamorous industrial power. It also gave Rome new appeal, thanks also to its fashion houses...

It is called The Kabuki, but its only reference point to the great bourgeois Japanese classical theater is that it deals with a group of suicidal samurai. More than thirty years after its first performances, it has still ignited the...