Robert Mapplethorpe Manhattan on display
Mapplethorpe produced his highly original work in New York between the late 1960s and late 1980s, witnessing and interpreting the surrounding cultural excitement, its...
Thomas Hartman : action, reflection and reaction
Your approach to painting by way of “action, reflection and reaction” is said to unfold sometimes over years in order to develop a piece...
Bill Beckley : Transcendent Beauty
“I decided to become an artist when I was five, after I found a couple of my father’s pastel drawings, one of his dog...
Ridley Scott interview : The force of a timeless Film
Ranging from history movies such as The Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven, Robin Hood to science fiction with Blade Runner, Alien, The Martian, or iconic road movies such as Thelma...
Javier Bardem : With Dune I had my childhood dream realized
Some people have a special gaze, so deep as to result hypnotic. Javier Bardem is one of them while he talks about himself simply...
Interview with Paolo Sorrentino : Maradona’s semi-divine power has saved me
"Cinema is necessary to distract from reality because reality is poor. That’s why I want another life, why I want to make films," says...
Martin Scorsese
I would not be the same without italian cinema
The great protagonist of the thirteenth edition of the Rome Film Festival was, without a doubt,...
Fedora Spinelli Oscilloscope
Fedora Spinelli’s artistic output marks her as one of the most authentic exponents of abstract art, both in Italy and abroad. She works mostly...
Ennio Finzi a Ca’Pesaro
What a void in the art world is the departure of a talented artist such as Ennio Finzi who was ninety-three. His precarious physical...
Gustavo Vèlez , sculptor
André Gide’s opinion that sculptors “think in marble” could certainly become Gustavo Vélez’s motto. In the city of Pietrasanta, Tuscany, the Colombian sculptor, born...
