Italy

The Counter-Monument

By Zoey Poll,

Disempowering a memorial to Fascism

From interviews conducted by journalists and readers with Elena Ferrante since 2003. The correspondence is included in Frantumaglia, a collection of Ferrante’s papers that was published last month by Europa…

The Lightness

By Catherine Meurisse,

A Charlie Hebdo cartoonist finds refuge from terror

Francophony

By Nicoletta Beschin, Angela de Bruin, Sergio Della Sala,

From a paper by Nicoletta Beschin, Angela de Bruin, and Sergio Della Sala that was published in the August 2016 issue of the scientific journal Cortex. Read More

Capri #8

By Olivo Barbieri,

High Concept

By Hans Ulrich Obrist,

From Ways of Curating, by Hans Ulrich Obrist, out this month from Faber and Faber. Obrist is the codirector of exhibitions and programs and of international projects at the Serpentine…

Vulgar Materialism

Translated by Anthony Lydgate,

From an online petition submitted in April to Piero Fassino, the mayor of Turin, requesting that he persuade the Spanish multinational NH Hotels not to name its new four-star location…

Anna Maria

By Luciana Castellina, Patrick Camiller,

By Luciana Castellina, from Discovery of the World: A Political Awakening in the Shadow of Mussolini, out this month from Verso Books. Translated from the Italian by Patrick Camiller.

Showing a Little Leg

By Dan Keane,

A pilgrimage to Ellen Altfest’s body paintings

Sirocco

By Michael Christopher Brown,

Clowning Achievement

By Bernhard Paul, Translated by Natascha Hoffmeyer,

From an open letter written in March by Bernhard Paul, founder and director of Germany’s Circus Roncalli, to Peer Steinbrück, the Social Democratic candidate for German chancellor, who in February…

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