When a blighted city needs transformation, it’s usually a bulldozer rather than a brush that does the work. Few years ago, Edi Rama, Tirana's mayor at the time, started in a creative way to paint the sad facades of the buildings built during communism.  But what did the two Dutch artists, ...

These are the Matrioskattive, coming from Dobrush, in Belarus, one of the most affected areas by Chernobyl disaster. The international Project Tizzi, started in 2005, brought them last month to the Salone del Mobile, to the Velvet space at the Fabbrica del Vapore. The project was developped by about sixty students of the Brera Academy, and was ...

Recently the Mountain View giant launched, is not a surprise after all, the Google Art Project. It works on the same principle of street viewing, but you are walking in the galleries of different museums rather than in the streets of a city. The platform is innovative, but still not ...

The Economics of Happiness is a film I’m looking forward to in 2011. Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick and John Page are the filmmakers. The film synopsis and trailer present a clear idea about the sense of well-being: life is becoming increasingly stressful for the majority of people on the planet. ...

On November 13, the Louvre Museum launched a fundraising campaign open to everybody: one million Euros was the missing sum to complete the budget needed to purchase “The Three Graces” (1531) by the German artist Lucas Cranach. The deadline was January 31st 2011, and only three quarters of the funds ...

JR is a French photographer and urban artist, he won the Ted Prize 2011. JR remains anonymous. His work mixes Art and Action, and talks about commitment, freedom, identity and limit. He exhibits his photographs in the biggest art gallery on the planet. His work is presented freely in the ...