Will the Beauty save the World?
Philosophy in Castelli Romani: how beauty can save the world even though the Virgin Mary is blond and lascivious, according to Raymonde Lulle. I was putting my register away in the drawer, and about to go back home, when this stocky old man moved towards me, stood on his tiptoes and kissed me on...
The Citta Irreale, or London through the eyes of the Italian Cristina Marconi, about ten years ago
Città irreale is a novel by Cristina Marconi on the unsubstantiality of big cities, such as London, and the kind of love you can find in them Città Irreale by Cristina Marconi drops into my hands when I’m trying to move from Paris to London. It was the gift of my friend Paolo, with whom I had my...
Cromwell House, a New Hub for The Arts
This post is on the venue and not the artists, especially because they change every week. Cromwell Place, a new hub for contemporary art, brave enough to open during lockdown. A unique space, made up of 14 galleries and a very elegant private club. Here, Cromwell, Bernard Show and many others gave...
Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road or Boulevard of the broken dreams… Currently available on Netflix, it’s the story of a failed revolution: that of our society and of women’s (but also men’s) emancipation. Revolutionary Road is the novel by Richard Yates. Revolutionary Road is a film. Revolutionary Road is the...
The Undoing – or about the truth
The Undoing – or about the truth - Voilà the ultimate “film” produced by HBO and directed by Susan Bier. Starring Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman. A psychological thriller, really nail biting! I know it’s a series, but I totally agree with actor Hugh Grant when, in an interview in Vanity Fair, he...
Emily in Paris
The new Netflix series Emily in Paris: Innocent or not? An American only chees - y - and Sincerre? I didn't know Star was also the director of Beverly Hills and brought Sex and the city into TV, this is why FT and Vanity fair wrote about it. Nevertheless, there is something appealing in it, once...
Huysmans Exhibition
Huysmans exhibitions at Musée D'orsay by Francesco Vezzoli: from Degas to Grunwald Francesco Vezzoli, an Italian contemporary artist, who is compared to Jeff Koons or Ashley Bickerton, shows its exhibition on Huysmans at Musée D’Orsay. Vezzoli analyses the writer from his days as an art critic...
Zelda is a cute, restless, gray cat who likes to write and take pictures of what strikes her. She was born in Prague, in Zlatá Ulička, many years ago; like all cats she wasn’t born because of love – it is well known that relationships between cats happen because of rape – and this is what makes cats wise: not to believe in love,
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