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Laura Mattioli

THE ART OF OUR TIME. Laura Mattioli is the Founder and President of the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) in New York. An art historian, curator, and collector, Laura specializes in twentieth-century Italian art. Since 1983 Laura Mattioli has been the curator...

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David Salle

WHAT MATTERS MOST IN ART IS NOT THE WHAT, BUT THE HOW. The artist David Salle was born in 1952. He divides his time between his studio in Brooklyn, New York City and his studio in East Hampton, Long Island. His eclectic talent encompasses being a painter, a...

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Larry Gagosian

GLOBAL ART. The art dealer Larry Gagosian has evolved his business into a global network of seventeen exhibition spaces with a vibrant contemporary program that features the work of leading international artists.This interview is also available as a podcast here...

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Wasfi Kani

PRODUCTIONS FOR PRISONERS. Wasfi Kani OBE is the founder and CEO of Grange Park Opera and Pimlico Opera, through which she enriches the lives of British prisoners and primary school children by exposure to music. Pimlico Opera has presented co-productions with prisons...

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Laura Mattioli is the Founder and President of the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) in New York @italianmodernart . An art historian, curator, and collector, Laura specializes in twentieth-century Italian art.
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What matters most in art is not the what, but the how. The artist @david_salle was born in 1952. His eclectic talent encompasses being a painter, a photographer, a print maker, a stage designer and a writer.”
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The inner gyroscope compels me to keep searching, keep changing.“
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PRODUCTIONS FOR PRISONERS. Wasfi Kani OBE is the founder and CEO of Grange Park Opera and Pimlico Opera, through which she enriches the lives of British prisoners and primary school children by exposure to music.
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“A prison is meant to be making a person into a useful member of society. In order for that to happen they need education."
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"I wrote the governor a letter, saying I wanted to come and do an opera in the prison for the prisoners.”
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"I've seen some astonishingly brilliant people working in prisons."
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#GrangeParkOpera #Hairspray #Interview #Kani #lascalatheatre #Learning #Litvinenko #Music #musicaltheatre #Opera #oxford-university #PimlicoOpera #Surrey #Theatre #TheatreInTheWoods #WasfiKani #WestHorsleyPlace

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PRESCIENT INFLUENCER Franco Maria Ricci is a giant of art publishing & graphic design. He created his magazine FMR & his art books as luxurious publications.
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“I always asked the greatest writers of the 20th century to collaborate with us by writing original texts.
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“We printed more than 100,000 copies of each issue of FMR.”
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“The idea was that even those who couldn’t afford expensive books could own quality books.”
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#art #arthistory #artinfo #book #Christie's #ContemporaryArt #fhm #francomariaricci #graphicdesign #IlLibro #Italy #labirintodifrancomariaricci #labyrinth #lifestyle #luxury #magazine #MarcoVoena #Media #Parma #RobilantVoena #Voena
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Image 1: Franco Maria Ricci in New York in 1984, for the launch of FMR U.S.A. © The Franco Maria Ricci Photo Archive.
Image 2: Franco Maria Ricci’s Labirinto della Masone seen from the Belvedere at dawn, Parma, Italy. Courtesy of The Franco Maria Ricci Photo Archive. © Yann Monel.
Image 3: Adolfo Wildt, Vir Temporis Acti, 1912–13, white marble, 100 x 75 x 65 cm, Collection of Franco Maria Ricci, Parma. © The Franco Maria Ricci Photo Archive.

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DOYENNE OF DESIGN. Nina Yashar founded the famous @nilufargallery in Milan, the reference point to lovers of historical design as well as to people following the evolution of contemporary design.
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“What I am really interested in is the ‘interdisciplinarity’ of different cultures.”
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“Milano is very important for the diversity of its artisans and architects.”
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“In this time of globalisation sometimes you lose content and forget amazing things.”
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#Bronze #carpets #decor #design #furniture #Gabbeh #GabriellaCrespi #GiòPonti #interiors #interiordesign #martinogamper #midcentury #Milan #milandesignweek #Milano #Nilufar #NilufarDepot #NilufarGallery #NinaYashar #OsannaVisconti #salonedelmobile

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John Jay is the President of Global Creative at Fast Retailing, the parent company of Uniqlo, a Japanese casual wear designer, manufacturer and retailer.
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"What we are doing is evolving the idea of clothes."
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"Value actually solves problems in your life and helps make your life better."
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"Quality is hugely important and that's part of our constant innovation."
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#Cashmere #Clothing #Fashion #FastRetailing #Japan #jeans #JohnJay #LifeWear #London #Milan #outfit #RogerFederer #style #TadashiYanai #Uniqlo #Uniqlo

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THE PRADO AT 200. Miguel Falomir is the director of Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, which celebrates its Bicentenary in 2019 with a special program featuring numerous exhibitions and museum-related activities.
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"The most distinctive feature of our collection is that it hasn't been put together by art historians but by collectors."
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"In these 200 years we have only been closed for three years."
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"For exhibitions and the visual arts Madrid is one of the best places in Europe."
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#arthistory #Bosch #ElGreco #Exhibitions #Goya #ItalianRenaissance #Lotto #Madrid #museo #museodelprado #NormanFoster #painting #PradoMuseum #RafaelMoneo #Rubens #Tintoretto #Titian #Tiziano #Velasquez #Veronese

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THE GENIUS OF LIGHT. Trained as a philosopher, garden designer Fernando Caruncho makes projects that connect between landscape, garden, architecture & man.
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“Ultimately the garden is a geometry illuminated by light to put man in contact with nature.”
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“I think that the “genius loci” in reality is that the genius resides in the light.”
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“You are really part of an incredible perfect place that is the cosmos.”
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#andalucia #archdigest #Architecture #caruncho #design #fernandocaruncho #garden #gardenart #gardendesign #Gardens #Green #landscape #Legorreta #leroystreetstudio #Madrid #RenzoPiano #ricardolegorretta

Laura Mattioli

THE ART OF OUR TIME. Laura Mattioli is the Founder and President of the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) in New York. An art historian, curator, and collector, Laura specializes in twentieth-century Italian art. Since 1983 Laura Mattioli has been the curator...

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David Salle

WHAT MATTERS MOST IN ART IS NOT THE WHAT, BUT THE HOW. The artist David Salle was born in 1952. He divides his time between his studio in Brooklyn, New York City and his studio in East Hampton, Long Island. His eclectic talent encompasses being a painter, a...

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Larry Gagosian

GLOBAL ART. The art dealer Larry Gagosian has evolved his business into a global network of seventeen exhibition spaces with a vibrant contemporary program that features the work of leading international artists.This interview is also available as a podcast here...

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Wasfi Kani

PRODUCTIONS FOR PRISONERS. Wasfi Kani OBE is the founder and CEO of Grange Park Opera and Pimlico Opera, through which she enriches the lives of British prisoners and primary school children by exposure to music. Pimlico Opera has presented co-productions with prisons...

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Money Must Stay in the Family

The plot of Money Must Stay in the Family, unfolds around the family matriarch’s last will and traces the story of an upper class Jewish family from Turin, the fictional Ottolenghis. The multigenerational saga begins with the flight from Mussolini’s Racial Laws of 1938 and continues with the arrival in the Upper West Side of Manhattan and the dispersion from New York to Rome, Paris, Tuscany, South America, and Jerusalem.

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