Tag: italy
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Rizzoli Galleria, Milano
Continuing our tour of the world’s bookstores, we found a Rizzoli inside the Galleria Vittorio Emmanuelle II in Milano. It is affiliated with the one in New York. The Rizzoli Galleria are on three floors, it is not huge but carries quite a variety of Italian and international books. According to the publicity material, the store…
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Foro Italico, Roma, Italy
Foro Italico, formerly Foro Mussolini, is a Fascist-era sports complex in Rome, Italy. I(Chris) saw this as a part of a tour of modern Italian architecture. The forum was built between 1928 and 1938 as the Foro Mussolini (literally Mussolini’s Forum) under the design of Enrico Del Debbio and, later, Luigi Moretti (according to Wikipedia). At…
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Vatican Museums, Roma
Musei Vaticani – I (Chris) had in Rome an opportunity of a private guided tour of the Vatican Museums, including the Sistine Chapel. The tour was about 1 hour long and began at dusk after all the regular visitors had left. These are painted on the spaces at the top of columns. Notice the 3D…
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刘若望 Liu Ruowang’s wolves came to Venice Biennale 2015
The outdoor installation by Liu Ruowang (刘若望, 1977) is known as 狼来了 (The Wolves Are Coming), created in 2008 and shown previously in Beijing’s 798 art space, New Zealand, and now in Venice. Click here, here and here to see more about the Venice Biennale. The wolves are installed in the Telecom Italy Future Center located outside…
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徐冰 Xu Bing’s phoenixes at the Arsenale, Venice Biennale 2015
Another work we saw in Venice that is worth mentioning. Xu Bing (Chinese: 徐冰, born 1965) is a Chinese-born artist who lived in the United States for eighteen years. Currently residing in Beijing, he used to serve as the vice-president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. The two installations – The Phoenix – weighing 8…
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Qiu Zhijie 邱志杰 @ Venice Biennale 2015
This and the following two posts will be about works by individual artists that caught our eyes in Venice. Co-incidentally, the three artists are all of Chinese descent. The first is Qiu Zhijie (邱志杰, 1969) who was invited to participate in the Biennale by the organizer. His work –The Jinling Chronicle Theater Project – was exhibited in…