4 June 2024
"As long as one has passions, one will not cease to discover the world," said Cesare Pavese in Il mestiere di vivere - his biography written between…
23 May 2024
Established in 1992, after the UN adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the International Day for Biological Diversity is celebrated every year on May 22nd. With…
10 May 2024
In 2007, after being widely commented on, the magazine InStyle defined the green dress worn by British actress Keira Knightley in a famous scene from Atonement as…
25 April 2024
Before we discuss their art, it is important to remember the words the greatest artists have used to describe it. The most well-known are from Pablo Picasso…
14 March 2024
Celebrating renewal and rebirth, Easter is the oldest and most important Christian festival. It is recognised all over the world, and not always with religious reverence. In…
7 March 2024
It really happened. In August 2018, on a visit to Fundação de Serralves in Porto, Portugal, an Italian tourist ‘fell’ into a ‘black hole.’ The work in…
22 February 2024
Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway), the leading character of the film The Devil Wears Prada (2005), hadn’t realised the power of Miranda Priestley when, during a styling session,…
8 February 2024
A year ago, on the occasion of our museum workshop, Su la maschera! (‘Masks Up!’), Carnival became the star of our Blog. However, we forgot to write…
23 January 2024
On July 4th, 1776, American Founding Father, statesman and Patriot John Hancock (1737 - 1793) put his signature to the United States Declaration of Independence. His signature…
19 January 2024
Emma Emma’s life was marked by books from the very beginning: her mother – who imagined an emancipated future for her daughter – decided to name her…
