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MAK the Life: a cutting edge design museum in Vienna is full of unusual domestic treasures. I didn't expect Sottsass' grey units made for…
On a recent trip to Austria I had just enough time to poke my head inside the MAK - the Museum of Applied Arts in the heart of the capital. I was in for…
Jul 2
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MAK the Life: a cutting edge design museum in Vienna is full of unusual domestic treasures. I didn't expect Sottsass' grey units made for MoMA in 1972 to be two of them.
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June 2025
Fascism vs. Despotism: what one building from 1939 built to celebrate Italy's totalitarian state can tell us about failed regimes.
Today's despotism resembles but does not follow the ideological objectives of historic Fascism. Present day despots, like those of the past, have other…
Jun 13
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Fascism vs. Despotism: what one building from 1939 built to celebrate Italy's totalitarian state can tell us about failed regimes.
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May 2025
Being Luigi Serafini: a visit to the artist's home-studio is like entering a mysterious portal into his incredibly creative mind.
This weekend's Open House tour gave the public a rare view of Serafini's mythic residence. The artist's home becomes a momentary refuge for fantasists…
May 29
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Being Luigi Serafini: a visit to the artist's home-studio is like entering a mysterious portal into his incredibly creative mind.
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The Monument Podcast.
A stop action video animation produced by YellowGloveLab productions. Art Director: Peter Lang, Editor: G. Penzo. Created for the exhibition Monuments…
May 19
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The International Architecture Biennale in Venice is about the art of cleaning up after ourselves.
Carlo Ratti’s end game is to fix the mess we architects have made over the last century. What did we do wrong, who did we overlook, and how to…
May 13
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The International Architecture Biennale in Venice is about the art of cleaning up after ourselves.
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April 2025
The Lazarus effect: how one ancient city in Italy came back from the dead with the help of some good marketing and a small entry fee.
Civita di Bagnoregio in the province of Viterbo is better known as the “dying city.” It has been falling off its foundations for centuries. But is there…
Apr 23
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The Lazarus effect: how one ancient city in Italy came back from the dead with the help of some good marketing and a small entry fee.
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Why make a monument that is not monumental?
Now that my exhibition "Monuments counter Monuments" ended its run at the Embrice gallery in Rome, it's time to take a closer look at what the…
Apr 2
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March 2025
My Brutalist. Can one person's fiction be another person's truth?
“The Brutalist” doesn't appeal to everyone. But in my case, the film hits home, like an old family photograph. Why is that?
Mar 11
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My Brutalist. Can one person's fiction be another person's truth?
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February 2025
The biggest cover-up in Rome: Pietro Ruffo takes on the silos of Piazza Venezia.
The Metro C station under construction in Piazza Venezia is digging down into centuries of Roman history. How to deal with a construction mess that will…
Feb 10
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The biggest cover-up in Rome: Pietro Ruffo takes on the silos of Piazza Venezia.
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January 2025
Art Snapshot: The Egyptian Museum in Turin comes packaged in a shiny candy-wrapper for its bicentennial.
On a recent trip to Turin I made a long-awaited visit to the Museo Egizio, recently renovated the Dutch office OMA and Andrea Tabocchini Architecture…
Jan 23
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Art Snapshot: The Egyptian Museum in Turin comes packaged in a shiny candy-wrapper for its bicentennial.
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Art Snap-shot: Tony Cragg takes a deep dive into the Diocletian Baths.
Tony Cragg's sculpture exhibition "Infinite forms that are beautiful," takes its title from a quote by Darwin. Now up at the National Roman Museum, the…
Jan 15
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Art Snap-shot: Tony Cragg takes a deep dive into the Diocletian Baths.
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Detour-ism #2. The Signorelli parapraxis: Freud, the Last Judgement and other questions about memory while grooving to some jazz at the…
What happens when a city like Orvieto with a rich medieval-renaissance legacy, becomes an important fulcrum for modern thought? One way to find out is…
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Detour-ism #2. The Signorelli parapraxis: Freud, the Last Judgement and other questions about memory while grooving to some jazz at the Winter fest in Orvieto.
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