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by Janna Brancolini | Mon, 06/05/2023 - 06:30
Italian popstar Alessandro Mahmoud, stage name Mahmood, seemed almost destined, in retrospect, to play Sebastian in Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Born to an…
by Liz Shemaria | Thu, 06/01/2023 - 06:33
A white hand ashtray sculpted in 1942 is lit in a glass case with terracotta hands and ears fired during the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE.
Etruscans formed ex-…
by Tatjana Dordevic | Mon, 05/29/2023 - 09:58
The emerging European trend of climate activists targeting artworks and historical monuments with paint and other liquids is generating varying degrees of both…
by Alexa Ahern | Sun, 05/14/2023 - 17:00
Piazzale Loreto in the north of Milan is an eyesore of the excessive cementificazione of Italian cityscapes. An intersection of seven major thoroughfares, it…
by Laurence Connell | Wed, 05/10/2023 - 09:00
In Italy, drill music — a subgenre of hip hop — has broken into the mainstream.
It’s been barely three years since the release of the genre’s first viral…
by Joseph Harshbarger | Sun, 05/07/2023 - 07:00
The world watched transfixed this weekend as King Charles III was crowned in Westminster Abbey on May 6, succeeding his mother as monarch and becoming King of…
by Lucy McCabe | Fri, 05/05/2023 - 08:25
“I played with great seriousness. At some point they began to call my games art.” – Maria Lai
I first “met” Maria Lai while visiting Cagliari, the capital of…
by Amy Gulick | Wed, 04/26/2023 - 06:20
The perennially popular Italian folk tune “Bella Ciao” has roots in 19th-century farm laborer protests in northern Italy, but this simple yet stirring hymn has…
by Katherine Wilson | Thu, 04/20/2023 - 15:00
This spring, the city at the base of Vesuvius is ready to erupt.
Abuzz with adrenaline and already spray-painted blue, Naples is anticipating a national…
by Alexa Ahern | Thu, 03/30/2023 - 14:25
I think it’s safe to say no cuisine kindles such universal love quite like Italian food.
When the Italian Ministries of Agriculture and Culture nominated “…
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