Verona Arena becomes first in Europe with 6,000 seats
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Opera Festival opens window onto Italian museum heights
25 Maggio 2021
VERONA, MAY 25 - The Verona Opera Festival 2021 has
become an ambassador for Italian culture and beauty, thanks to a
close collaboration by the Verona Arena Foundation with some of
the top museums and exhibition spaces in the country, from the
Uffizi to the Vatican Library, in the most significant
development for this year s opera season in the iconic Veneto
city.
After placing opera for the first time at centre stage in 2020,
the Arena is taking a further step this summer and thanks to a
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Asian Creatives Discuss The Works and Creators That Most Inspire Them Nafeesah Allen © Alice Morgan These creative leaders are driven by everything from comic book art to ancient Chinese sculpture. During this month, we celebrate the heritage of people of Asian and Pacific Island descent. Doing so isn’t just a firm commitment to creating a future that eradicates anti-Asian hate and challenges model minority myths, but it also entails a look back at the past to see how those cultures inform our present. The depth and variety of cultural production emanating from Asia and reverberating throughout global Diasporas have had a lasting impact on the art and design worlds. Many museums and galleries boast impressive collections that nod to those geographies and civilizations. More importantly, the Asian creatives behind art institutions and the creators of contemporary works are bringing fresh perspectives to notions of representation. From curators to comic book
Six Asian Creatives Share the Inspiration That Drives Them
These creative leaders are driven by everything from comic book art to ancient Chinese sculpture.
By Nafeesah Allen Alice Morgan During this month, we celebrate the heritage of people of Asian and Pacific Island descent. Doing so isn’t just a firm commitment to creating a future that eradicates anti-Asian hate and challenges model minority myths, but it also entails a look back at the past to see how those cultures inform our present. The depth and variety of cultural production emanating from Asia and reverberating throughout global Diasporas have had a lasting impact on the art and design worlds. Many museums and galleries boast impressive collections that nod to those geographies and civilizations. More importantly, the Asian creatives behind art institutions and the creators of contemporary works are bringing fresh perspectives to notions of representation. From curators to comic book designers, creatives
Bonaparte on the Bridge of Arcola, November 17, 1796 (1796-97) by Antoine-Jean Gros Josse Fine Art/Diomedia Images
Napoleon’s Plunder and the Theft of Veronese’s Feast, Cynthia Saltzman, Thames & Hudson (US: Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
, 320pp, £25 (hb)
The fact that a number of the world-famous works housed at the Musée du Louvre were looted by Napoleon Bonaparte has perhaps slipped under the radar for lovers of the Parisian museum.
Napoleon’s Plunder charts Bonaparte’s ransacking of Italy and Spain, among other countries, in the late 18th century, exploring “one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in history”. The looted haul of masterpieces by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Titian were displayed at the Louvre in a powerful show of the emperor’s strength (some works were returned to their home countries after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815). In 1797, Napoleon removed
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