"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

Author: shelidon

Last season, Milan hosted at Palazzo Reale a long-overdue retrospective of what quickly became one of my favourite contemporary artists, alongside Niki de Saint-Phalle: Leonor Fini. I wrote about it here. Saint-Phalle herself had been hosted at MUDEC in the same period (see here). This Autumn,...

When Space Turns to Horror Stanisław Lem has often been described as a visionary of science fiction, but to call The Invincible simply “sci-fi” feels inadequate. Lem doesn’t write speculative adventures of exploration and discovery: he writes existential horror. Solaris is, at its core, a ghost...