Years ago a dear friend of mine pointed out to me that most of the plants that we usually call “weed” come from South America. They arrived in Europe after the colonization of the American …

A few days ago a famous Italian curator and art writer suggested an event in Linz through her Facebook page. She was talking about Art Meets Radical Openness 2014, or just AMRO. She (the curator) asked …

“I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a …

A big number of artists is involved in this show curated by Marco Scotini at the Archeological Museum in Bologna, Italy. Il Piedistallo vuoto / The Empty Pedestal, Ghosts from Eastern Europe is a survey on …

Information society works as a big computer, it accumulates sensitive data trying to understand the evolution and future of the world. This society needs to understand and develop new strategies starting from the study of …

In 1826 French inventor Nicéphore Niépce used a coating of bitumen to make the first permanent camera photograph, but a camera exposure lasting for hours or days was required. Only years later Louis Daguerre, French …

Today – November 18 – Vienna Art Week opens its ninth edition. I met the curator of the event, Robert Punkenhofer, for a brief interview. Vincenzo Estremo: The title of Vienna Art Week’s ninth edition, …

Animazioni is an interesting exhibition at MAN, Museo d’arte Provincia di Nuoro, curated by Lorenzo Giusti – MAN’s director – and Elena Volpato  – GAM, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin – on video and animation works …

The etymology of the word Propaganda comes from the Latin Pro-pagere in which pagere means seed, spread, and the prefix pro means forward, for long. In digital era, the word propaganda seems to be anachronistic: …

Displacement Reactions is a group show curated by Eugenia Delfini (Sottobosco) for DI.ST.URB (District of Urban Studies and Relations/ In Times of Crisis ) Scafati (Sa). The exhibition project focuses on visions investigating identity dynamics in borderlands. Many …

The square and all its meanings are the core of the exhibition “Un luogo aperto” (An open place). The title refers to an article in the Italian Constitution about the right to peaceful gathering, recalling …

Cucinare in Massima Sicurezza (Cooking in Maximum Security) by Matteo Guidi is a recipe book developed with inmates from high security sections inside Italian prisons. Illustrated by Mario Trudu, it lists the methods used by prisoners to cook …