Scatti anni ’40

May 20, 2008

Come apprendo dal Corriere di oggi, da mercoledì arriva a Milano la mostra L’immagine dela bellezza, dedicata al fotografo Arturo Ghergo. Oltre 350 immagini del fotografo italiano famoso per aver ritratto gran parte dei personaggi del suo tempo, da Michela Caracciolo a Gina Lollobrigida, da Massimo Girotti a Alida Valli.
Sul sito di Palazzo Reale nessuno ne sa ancora niente, ma la cosa non mi stupisce: la cartella stampa è ferma al 2007. Oltre che all’articolo del Corriere, qualche informazione si può trovare qui e qui.

Penso che coglierò l’occasione per accoppiare questa mostra all’installazione di Peter Greenway, che colpevolmente non ho ancora visto.

books and literature

Tracy Chevalier’s Remarkable Creatures

You might say that this is a historical novel about two pioneer women hunting for fossils on the famed beach of Lyme, one of them being paleontology legend Mary Anning and the other being the less famous fossil hunter and collector Elizabeth Philpot.You’d be wrong,

September 20, 2026 9:00 am

books and literature

Cixin Liu’s Hold Up the Sky

This is a really splendid collection of stories, some shorter than other, and I wouldn’t have collected them this way: you have proper sci-fi stories and fairy tales, stories about science (with very little fiction), a story on coal mines and a war tale. But,

September 19, 2026 9:00 am

architecture, engineering and construction

The Answer’s in Your Model (and yet, it might be wrong)

A few weeks ago, in one of those happy convergences of life, I was reading an Italian essay on Italo Calvino and artificial intelligence (I wrote about it here), and there’s a very interesting set of passages that have to do with our contemporary obsession

September 16, 2026 9:00 am