It may not be easy to determine when man left prehistory behind. For the sake of argument, this house will posit that man began to distance himself from the other… 

When Hugo Pratt’s magic pen brought Venetian sailor Corto Maltese to life in 1967, the world was on the brink of epochal upheavals. By the time the comics character had… 

  It’s actually a short movie. And it was one of the little gems of the seventh edition of the Short Film Festival that Ca’ Foscari University of Venice organizes… 

  “In Italy, the state is weak and the family is strong, so it’s logical that, when it comes to preserving their histories, fashion houses—often second- or third-generation family operations—do… 

  Zachary Turpin, of the University of Houston, just rediscovered a novel by Walt Whitman that was long thought lost. The Life and Adventures of Jack Engle is a Dickensian… 

An exhibtion of Ippolito Caffi’s seascapes and cityscapes, the vedute – as this subgenre is known in Italian – has just closed at the Correr Museum of Venice. The breathtaking… 

As the Architecture Biennale at Venice draws to an end, the final events verse on the fleeting nature of exhibitions and, generally, all things that are created. A World of… 

  No character is possibly more charming—and, up to a point, trite—than the eccentric Englishman who embarks on extraordinary adventures. Adam Lowe is one such character, with a mission of… 

The Nobel Committee is not alien to shocking audiences, especially with its choices for the Literature Prize. This time, however, it rocked. Quite literally. Bob Dylan, one of the most… 

History records a “Jerusalem fever” that gripped the world between 1000 and 1400. Millenarian expectations of a second coming of Christ, the violence of Islam and the response it brought…