Friday, April 20th, 2018
Term makes it onto the official local lexicon Bologna has its very own ‘Piazzetta degli Umarells’. The term ‘umarells’ is known in Bolognese folklore as a ball-busting, grumpy pensioner and the word enters the city’s official toponymy, So, what is it exactly, or rather which type of person does it characterize? It’s generally a pensioner […]
: Danilo Masotti
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Friday, March 30th, 2018
By R. David Salvage Francis Poulenc’s 1957 opera The Dialogues of the Carmelites received an outstanding production this month at the Teatro Comunale. A co-production with the Théȃtre des Champs-Élysées (Paris) and La Monnaie (Brussels), it arrived on a wave of acclaim and drew widespread media coverage. Inspired by actual events, Dialogues tells the story of a young aristocratic woman […]
: David Salvage, The Dialogues of the Carmelites
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Friday, March 23rd, 2018
Father of Chinese street art’s first anthology The father of Chinese street art in the nineties, now among the greatest artists of his country and the world, arrived in the city for his first Italian anthology entitled ‘Meta-Morphosis’, at Palazzo Fava until June 24, with Marina Timoteo as curator. Zhang Dali arrived in Bologna twenty […]
: Meta-Morphosis, Zhang Dali
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Friday, February 23rd, 2018
Located in the heart of the city – smack bang in the middle of Via dell’Indipendenza – Maison Ventidue, hosts local and international artists and their research in the field of performance, installation and interior design. The residence adopts the name HOMEMADE in line with the living space and the city through site-specific studies and […]
: Maison Ventidue, Mariarosa Lamanna, private art museum
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2018
IL BAZAR DELLE FOLLIE A new book from Professor Piero Formica reveals: Thoughts about Italy in the age of knowledge The visionary masters the art of seeing invisible things. The expert lives in a niche that restricts his field of vision. His possibilities are limited. Expert “There are many possibilities in the beginner’s mind; there […]
: Piero Formica
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Friday, February 2nd, 2018
A tourist hotspot since reopening in 1998 The little window on Via Piella is twenty years old, or at least its rediscovery, which dates back to the end of January 1998. The view over the old canal – often referred to as Little Venice – is one that most captures the hearts of many tourists. […]
: Amici delle Acque, little venice, via piella window
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Thursday, January 25th, 2018
World University Rankings A recent report by the Times Higher University puts Bologna University at no1. in its list of 10 most beautiful universities in Europe. In their own words Unibo: “…in Italy is regarded as the world’s oldest university, having been founded in 1088. As well as being the oldest continually running university, it is a […]
: Times Higher University
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Monday, January 15th, 2018
New installation for cultural initiatives is causing a raging storm The new structure, which was set up in early January in Piazza Verdi, has set the Bolognese against each other. Three reconverted transport containers sit just a few meters in front of the Teatro Comunale and it seems there is no end to the controversy […]
: Otello Ciavatti, piazza verdi tower
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Friday, December 22nd, 2017
Mayor of Bologna: “The fragile beauty of Neptune has been restored thanks to the help of everyone.” Merola said of Neptune’s comeback: “We welcome the figure that the soul of every Bolognese feels close to and that has always transmitted to us the values of belonging, of community, of citizenship… It’s not always a monument. […]
: fontana nettuno, Neptune Fountain, restoration neptune
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Tuesday, November 21st, 2017
By Giorga Ferro “Duchamp, Magritte, Dalì. I Rivoluzionari del ‘900” the exhibition at Palazzo Albergati running from the 16th of October to the 11th of February 2018, has a misleading title and should have been called “Surrealists and Dadaists of the twentieth century”. I state this because although there are many works of art by […]
: Dadaism, Dalì, Duchamp, Magritte, Palazzo Albergati, surrealism
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