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What Is The Meaning Of Art? A Master Of Arte Povera Gives The Answer

Simona Lodi | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Piero Gilardi, Social and Artistic Forms of Representation., Internet Freedom, Tech-Art, Cybernetics, Castle of Rivoli, Italy, Arte Povera, Open-Source, Freedom of Speech, Turin, Politics, Activism, Networks, Aesthetics, Contemporary Art, Horizontal Democracy, Sixties, Participation, Performance, Arts News
Simona Lodi

Piero Gilardi anticipated later movements, in seeing the aesthetic value of shared space and collaboration -- a value underpinning the open-source, Internet-based nature of tech-art today.

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What Turin, Italy, Has That Detroit Needs

David O. Egner | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Turin, Turin Manufacturing, Detroit Turin, Turin Italy, Detroit Renewal, Detroit Innovation, Detroit Resurgence, Detroit News
David O. Egner

The Detroit region has the assets and tools to be a leader in innovation. For the past several years, a culture of regional collaboration has been taking root, replacing several decades of fragmentation, competition or indifference.

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HuffPost Guides: Snow Ridge Ski Resort

The Huffington Post | Sara Ipatenco | Posted 01.05.2012

Read More: New York State Travel, Turin, Video, Ski Resorts, New York State, Snow Ridge Ski Resort, New York Travel, Turin Travel, New York, Skiing, Travel News

Snow Ridge Ski Resort in New York is a popular destination for skiers and snowboarders. As part of a series on ski resorts, Huffington Post Travel off...

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PHOTOS: Preparing For Christmas In Italy

Kathy McCabe | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Turin, Markets, Milan, Puglia, Rome, Christmas, Food, Italy Travel, Italy, Vatican, Umbria, Italian Food, Christmas Shopping, Nativity Scenes, Tuscany, Slidepollajax, Travel News
Kathy McCabe

From the Christmas markets in Alto-Aldige to a 250-person strong live Nativity pageant in Puglia, there are Christmas enchantments and surprises in every corner of Italy.

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Did Giotto Create The Shroud Of Turin?

The Independent | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Luciano Buso, Turin, Religion, Turin Shroud, Knights Templar, Leonardo Da Vinci, Jesus, Christianity, Shroud of Turin, Italy, Painting, Giotto, Arts News

The Holy Shroud of Turin, one of the most venerated objects of the Christian faith, was in fact the work of the great Italian pre-Renaissance painter ...

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Thinking About War and Peace

Norman MacAfee | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Anna Netrebko, King Vidor, Hitler, Napoleon, War and Peace, Turin, Natasha, Sergei Prokofiev, Valery Gergiev, Norman Rose, Richard Pevear, Rostovs, Metropolitan Opera, Sergei Bondarchuk, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, NBC Opera Theatre, Bulgarian State Opera, Vilcek Foundation, Bolshoi Opera, Kiev, Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Nino Rota, Larissa Volokhonsky, Tolstoy, General Kutuzov, Prague Spring, Andrei Bolkonsky, Moscow, D. W. Griffith, The Crowd, Pierre Bezuhov, Mikhail Gorbachev, Constance Garnett, The Big Parade, Arts News
Norman MacAfee

When I first saw Bondarchuk's "War and Peace," in 1968, in New York, it was presented in two parts and ran six hours. You went in the afternoon, broke for dinner, then came back for the rest. It was stupendous.

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Italy for Museum Lovers: Don't Miss These Five Museums

Paolo Rossi | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Turin, Art, Venice, Rome, Naples, Italy, Museum, Florence, Slidepollajax, Museo Egizio, Gallerie Dell'accademia, Italian Museum, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Musei Vaticani, Uffizi Gallery, European Travel, Travel News
Paolo Rossi

Although rarities, such as the peperoncino museum and the olive museum (yes, Italians love their food), are great places to visit, there are a few museums you really must visit during a stay in Italy.

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Pope All But Endorses Authenticity Of Turin Shroud

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011

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TURIN, Italy — Pope Benedict XVI all but gave an outright endorsement of the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin on Sunday, calling the cloth th...

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Blue Mozzarella Investigated In Italy: Police Seize 70,000 Cheese Balls In Turin

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government, Blue Mozzarella, Turin, Police, Germany, Milk, Cheese, Buffalo Mozzarella, Italy, Europe, Mozarella, Mozzarella Balls, Italy Blue Mozzarella, Video, Food News

UPDATE, 6/22, 4:25pm -- (Harmless?) Bacteria Turned The Mozzarella Blue ROME (AP) -- Batches of Mozzarella balls turned blue because of bacterial con...

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The Solitude of Prime Numbers: Favorable Circumstances

Paolo Giordano | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Books, The Solitude of Prime Numbers, Physics, Turin, Writing, Sleeplessness, Books News
Paolo Giordano

It's amazing how certain circumstances can affect the progress of a story. I'm sure that if I had written The Solitude of Prime Numbers in the morning, my protagonists would not have been so unlucky.

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Bode Miller more at ease than back in Turin days

The Aspen Times | Aspen Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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EDWARDS, Colo. - The question came from the front row in a crowded room of kids, during an appearance Bode Miller and other U.S. skiers made...

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Eataly NYC, Giant Italian Market, Coming To 5th Ave

Eater | Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE, 2-23-10: Eataly: Batali + Dogfish Head = Rooftop Brewpub Nirvana In NYC? Previously: Flo Fab reports that Eataly, the giant Italian market ...

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Phylla, the Green Urban Vehicle "made in Italy"

GreenCar Reports | GreenCar | Posted 05.25.2011

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When "Italy" means more than "design": Phylla ("leaf", from ancient greek) is the result of a combined project of the Environment Park, the Advanc...

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