By Giorgia Ferro There is a new exhibition in town worth visiting: “Botero” dedicated to the Colombian artist FERNANDO BOTERO, running from the 12th of October 2019 to the 26th of January 2020 at Palazzo Pallavicini, in Via San Felice 24, very close to the city centre. Curated by Francesca Bogliolo in collaboration with the […]
By Jade Yan Laboratori Migranti is a Bolognese project that aims to take the concept of social services a bit further: by giving people free and open access to the arts. This initiative takes the form of fifteen free artistic workshops, all held at Via Guido Guinizelli 3, Bologna. These workshops (“laboratori”) are run in […]
Bolognese Pioneering School Arrigo Serpieri High School (Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Arrigo Serpieri) in Corticella becomes a pioneer in the fight against plastic bottles. Serpieri on Via Peglion 25 is the first ever plastic free Bolognese school and presently children run around with coloured bottles that can be filled at the dispensers placed around the school. […]
The Bolognese who can’t get enough They call out to each other in excited tones: “The Athens one is coming… Amsterdam has just left… when is the Dubai one departing?” Not everyone hates planes flying over the houses of Navile and Borgo Panigale. Indeed, from Via della Salute to Bargellino, from the bank of the Reno […]
By Giorgia Ferro An intriguing contemporary art exhibition, “All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and Everywhere” was recently presented at MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna and will be running from the 9th of June to the 8th of September, a show that connects the fields of environmental sciences, history and civilization through […]
MAMBO By Giorgia Ferro Museum of Modern Art of Bologna, continues its exhibition activity with Bologna Rock 1979, an exhibition dedicated to the musical event that brought together more than six thousand people at the Palasport in Bologna on April 2nd 1979 and the surrounding punk rock movement of the period. Bologna Rock can be […]
A truly unique experience By Giorgia Ferro This an extraordinary exhibition running at the Archaeological Museum in Bologna until September 8th, a truly unique event. Curated by the late Ezio Bassani and Gigi Pezzoli, the exhibition does not follow an ethnological itinerary but rather includes a narration of the art, stories of explorers and encounters […]
‘SOTTO LE DUE TORRI’ Beppe Maniglia first started playing his guitar in Via Rizzoli in 1980 and fondly remembers, “the people going mad for him.” Eventually though, Maniglia became better known for riding through town like a star in his Harley Davidson, before setting up shop on Piazza Nettuno. “Look at me,” he pointed to […]
The Sharing Economy If you haven’t heard of the ‘Sharing Economy’ by now, the chances are that you may have already participated in it without actually realising it. There can be no doubt that its ubiquitous reach has touched every nation and is encroaching on just about every useful resource in the modern age. Bologna’s […]
A silent revolution Not all revolutions are noisy and in your face. Some are small, silent ones that contain the economic germs of the future. They are often the fruit of ideas nurtured by the courage of young people who never cease to change the world. BackBo is one of them. It is an experimental […]
