The Cultural Magazine

June 20, 2017

Sirian refugee story: Dilovan’s walk to Europe

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out true meaning of it...

by Melissa Pignatelli

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April 27, 2017

Cross cultural love and friendship stories help creativity

– by William Maddux and Andrew Hafenbranck, INSEAD The stamp in one’s passport doesn’t always define the distance one...

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March 10, 2017

The Bill Viola exhibit in Florence and a short video of The Deluge

From 10 March to 23 July 2017 the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi introduces Bill Viola, a significant exhibition celebrating this unchallenged...

by Melissa Pignatelli

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March 9, 2017

Caravaggio and Contemporary Art in London

by Maria Grazia Leonetti-Rodinò di Miglione The aim of the special event taking place on March 15th at the...

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February 14, 2017

‘Big, beautiful’ walls don’t stop migrants in the US or Europe

– by Anna Triandafyllidou, European University Institute Walls have a strong political connotation in post-war Europe. The most tragically famous...

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January 26, 2017

The Greek asylum crisis: moving beyond the blame game to a real solution

– Anna Triandafyllidou, European University Institute An unusual wave of cold weather in the first week of January 2017 exposed...

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January 14, 2017

Authentic Liaisons: Creating Bridges across Cultures

Flying in to Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, Renan Bourdeau looked down at the endless stretches of desert below...

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January 6, 2017

How to model our future cities?

The novel Frankenstein written by the English author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley describes the creation of a poor wretch. The...

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December 16, 2016

Why the Intellectual Elite Can’t Learn Its Lesson?

History may show that the single biggest casualty of 2016 was the credibility of elites. The one-two punch of...

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November 12, 2016

A populist in power in the U.S.

The USA on November 8th, 2016 elected a demagogue and misogynist with no prior political experience, scant respect for liberal-democratic...

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October 18, 2016

Botticelli’s influence on british pre-Raphaelites

In order for us to understand why Sandro Botticelli’s influence is of such relevance that the Uffizi Galleries renovate...

by Ingeborg Bugge

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October 5, 2016

“Fire at Sea”: the italian take on the refugee crisis

“Fire at Sea” (Fuocoammare) by Gianfranco Rosi is the italian film chosen to compete for Best Foreign Language film at the Academy Awards:...

by Melissa Pignatelli

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