Among the great 15th-century Italian artists who became the namesakes of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Michelangelo and Leonardo may be the most popular, and Raphael’s art may be the most beautiful, but none is as important in the story of the Renaissance than Donatello. The case for Donatello’s preeminence in the history of the development of Western art is now being made in an extraordinary exhibit of over a hundred works, being held in Florence, Italy, at the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Musei del Bargello through July 31.
You might have heard of OliveAnkara, the Singapore-based fashion label known for its head-turning African fabrics. But its founder Ify Ubby comes from a background as colourful as her clothing. Born in Italy to Nigerian parents, she first moved to Singapore to pursue molecular cancer research. These days, she’s a full-time designer with her own showroom, and she’s recently launched.
This book questions the suitability of Euroscepticism as a central concept for studying parties’ negative stances toward the EU, and suggests a more neutral definition for this political opposition: EU-opposition, a legitimate instrument of feedback and reaction to the EU’s political regime.