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 […]
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 […]
Let us introduce you to a whole new way of learning a language. Amazon’s Alexa is the personal assistant that Amazon has developed to allow people to get information, communicate, play, and manage music playback and control home automation devices inside the home. And now… thanks to the ‘Skills’ app, which are real additional mini […]
IIPLE go Deutsch By Michael Phillips Every year architects, engineers and surveyors studying at IIPLE construction school visit a different European city as part of their EU sponsored program to broaden their knowledge before embarking on a work experience at home. This year Berlin was chosen for a lucky 18 students, whose ages varied from […]
By Giorgia Ferro Following the success of the Vivian Maier exhibition, Palazzo Pallavicini continues to promote female photography by presenting the retrospective dedicated to “Surrealist Lee Miller” curated by ONO Arte Contemporanea, celebrating one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. Whilst starting out as a successful model at the end of the […]
MORGANTINI: “Free Culture for 20 guests of Cucine Popolare Roberto Morgantini does not know how to stay still. The new Commendatore of the Republic, awarded by Sergio Mattarella in Rome, has come up with another great idea: the ‘suspended’ theatre ticket. Twenty guests from his Cucine Popolare (People’s Kitchen) were invited to Arena del Sole Theatre […]
Princess Elettra Marconi is Guest of honour at Irish College The inventor of the radio and Nobel prize for physics, gave birth to the first vocal transmission from his station in Ballybunion to a reception station in Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, Canada, giving life to an event that changed global communication. The centenary event […]
