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Enjoying Guido in Pollenzo

Entering in the small village of Pollenzo, near Asti in the Cuneese land, if you keep behind you San Vittore’s church, you’ll find the entrance gate for Guido Restaurant. Piero Alciati e Marcella Mongelli (the owners) will welcome you in a warmy, fine and extremely elegance atmosphere. Red bricks, white table cloths, Sambonet cultlery, suspension [...]

Cultural Market

We bring up a very good example for the DaringToDo methodology. Maybe through this blog we can find suggestions and good advices for the developement of the project. G.V is a 35 years old man from Milan who works in the cultural events sector. After working for a society in Turin, he acquired the right knoledge [...]

Art and Economy: towards new exchanging models (part I)

What can be said about the relationship between a business company and Culture? Even better: how can be analyzed, if it exists, the relationship between Culture and Business? Today we have two very prestigious personality talking for us: Cesare Pietroiusti, artist and Carlo Sini, the most important Italian contemporary philosopher. I would ask Cesare to start [...]

Hilarotragedia

Hilarotragedia is a curatorial project related to artistic ceramics. Superego, a ceramic laboratory in Asti, decided few months ago to open a series of ceramics created by contemporary artists chromatically and ideologically related with corporate production. Edoardo Scagliola, chatting with friends, had the idea to start with important artists on our Italian national contest. So, he [...]

19 Novembre, Milano - Una serata con Menelaw Sete tra Arte e Cultura

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What’s up?!

And this is the schedule for next week appointments: Monday: Artistic ceramics Tuesday: Culture and Management Wednesday: Walking on eggs. Aldo Mondino solo exhibition. Thursday:Eataly Friday: MG Art Have a nice weekend!

Il Colore della Verità: personale di Menelaw Sete

Perché proporre un artista brasiliano che corre lungo l’esiguo filo tra informale e post cubismo? Molto spesso, nelle rassegne artistiche e nelle sacche di critica, è stato fatto muovere il pensiero che questo genere di pittura sia tramontato. In qualche modo oltrepassato a favore di un linguaggio maggiormente rarefatto, cosiddetto concettuale, che mira a ricondurre il [...]

Adriatic coast from the “I Girasoli Inn”

Few minutes from Riccione, close to Cattolica, immersed in the green hinterland and in the natural quiet, we find the Locanda I Girasoli, an oasis of peace and pleasure wehre to be caddled and vitiated every moment of the day. An ancient farmhouse dated late XIXth Century which has seen the stable and the cellar [...]

Giuseppe Penone at MAMbo

How would it feel to be a tree? What is the skin and why do we have it? Giuseppe Penone since his early artistic research perceives every single natural element like air, water, rocks, trees, hairs, hats, walls, streets throught oneself’s positive dimension, the skin, which is the negative dimension of the world. The skin [...]

Safarà

Safarà, sweet and sour citation from Dylan Dog ( it was a fabulous shop of bizar objects with the power of disappearing, putting in contact parallel dimensions), became a perfoming project executed Thursday 13th November in Via Ventura, Milan. Corrado Bonomi, the dreams’ artist, will take a stab at the Duck Game. This game in [...]

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And this is the schedule for next week appointments: Monday: Safarà Tuesday: Culture and Management Wednesday: Giuseppe Penone at MAMbo Thursday: Locanda I Girasoli Friday: MG Art Have a nice weekend!

MG-Art joins (Con)TemporaryArt Zona Tortona

(Con)TemporaryArt in Zona Tortona will host during the newx week Menelaw Sete’s personal exhibition. The event will begin the 10th of November, during the opening party from 04.00pm until 08.00 pm the Brasilian artisti will be presented for the first time to an Italian public for almost two weekd. The location of the show will [...]

Art and relax

Absorbed in Vicenza’s counryside, into a natural green frame and rustic perfumes, an XiXth century farm has been completely restored and trasformed in a dwelling where to find quit and peacefulness surrounded by modern and contemporary art works. This is Ca’ Muse. Next to the brilliant job made by the architect Flavio Albanese, works by [...]

Art on the Elections’ Day

The Elections’ Day is not exclusively a political fact. Even Art addresses its attention to this contemporary fundamental moment. A good examgle is the interestic collective exhibition curated by Alessandro Trabucco at Villa Carpiglio in Turin. A big crowd of young artists -it’s unuseful to cite just few of them- that will elaborate the Elections’ [...]

Excellent palaces

Who sad the best architects, those famous and awarded, are always the most suitable for keeping up important projects? Is the Sole24Ore’s reality. It costed more than two hundreds millions of euros in the centre of Milan (Via Monterosa) and distressed by a series of problems. Renzo Piano realized offices without barries, where you can [...]

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And this is the schedule for next week appointments: Monday:The Sole24Ore palace Tuesday:Exhibitions and election day Wednesday: Culture and Management Thursday: Ca’Muse Friday: MG Art Have a nice weekend!

Evening at Lake Orta

It has been an icredible success the charity dinner “Stelle del Lago d’Orta” organized by the Comitato Clubs NOvaresi, the participation of several Michelin chefs and the famous artist Enzo Rossi da Civita. The event was organized in order to raise money for the Sant’Egidio community, promoting excellent great food and cooking creations. The presence of several [...]

Art Business Forum 2008

Culture and Management. Creativity and firms. Art Business Forum(ABF) for the second year consecutively proposes its innovative and valid project consisting of promoting art and culture in order to companies’ and dirent class’ developement. Appealing to the fundamentals of the managerial thought and to the conventional schemes of management and productivity, ABF choses as its [...]

Sustainable Museum at Borgo Valsugana

Borgo Valsugana opens the depth of his gorges and the majestic nature to an artistic experiment that counts already 20 years, focused on art in contact with nature. The foundamental nub is proposing art works (45 are currently part of the permanent collection) along a natural path consisting of an attempt of taking the man [...]

Little riddle!!

Look at this sequence below: 1 11 21 1211 111221 312211 13112221 1113213211 …………….. Are you able to write the next line?

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And this is the schedule for next week appointments: Monday: Riddle Tuesday: Culture and Management Wednesday: Sustainable Museum at Borgo Valsugana Thursday: Premio Cairo 2008 Friday: MG Art Have a nice weekend!

Dangerous TV

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Premio Cairo 2008

The Cairo Award will finally declare the 2008 best artist. Starting from painture and embracing varoius artistic techniques from scuplture to videoart, to photographic and digital art, the Cairo Award worths a mention for its attempt of promoting and sustaining the new italian up-coming artists. Thanks to a frist selection of 20 final partecipants, the jury [...]

Saatchi Gallery

Welcome to the new headquarters of the largest free entry contemporary art museum in the world: the Saatchi Gallery. Now located in the hart of Chelsea and in the Duke of York’s palace, this new location entirly renovated by collectionist Carl Saatchi is just unmissable. “The Revolution Continues. New Art from China” is the name [...]

The Cardamom

Cardomom, for those who still ignore it, is well known for being the third most expensive spice after Saffron and Vanilla. Greek and Roman population used to make parfums with the Cardomom essence  and today it’s very popular for flavoring both food and drinks. In South Asia, the Green Cardamom is used to treat infections to teeth [...]

What’s up

The winter season is for contemporary art and its artists a nice period of exhibitions, vernissages, fairs (national and international) and sales. If you visit a valid exhibition, that you think it is worth to put on the DaringToDo beacuse people should visit it, just do it! Where’re here to hear your voice! And this is the [...]

Stars from the Lake Orta

The MG Art, the important society of the entrepreneur Massimo Giacomini which operates into Art sector, agreed to participate at the culinary demonstration “Stars from Lake Orta”. This will be a charity evening, schedelued for the 27th October at the Hotel L’approdo in Pettenasco. The appointment isat its third edition and this year the organization [...]

Starting collection

Tomorrow is the opening day for the fourth appointment of ArtVerona: a consistent overview on contemporary artists and movements. Among the novelties of this year, stands out the “Starting Collection” projects. A new system that allows those who begin approaching art world, to identify artists and reasonable art works to start their personal colletion. This [...]

Italian Factory Award

At the Fabbrica del vapore in Milan, it opened the 2nd of October, the final section of the Italian Factory Award for  young painture, curated by Chiara Canali. Another time, the assembly of various artists doesn’t seem the best way to realizing worthy reviews. The arrived and exposed material, even if it was already [...]

Andrei Molodkin

At the Pack Gallery, during the weekend of the 19th of September untile the middle of November, Andrei Molodkin opened his persolan exhibition. During the same weekend of Start, the important autumn art contest in Milan,  this is the only positive exposition during the event. None of the location of Start neither Via Ventura - [...]

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In case you liked our article about Terra Madre and Slow Food organization, we strongly suggest to visit the web site of the company to discover the several initiatives and structures located all around the world. Moreover, Slow Food publishes various books about food advices, restaurants, wines for Italy and more. And this is the schedule [...]

High cuisine in behalf of solidarity

Lake of Orta. City of Pettenasco. A charity evening has been announced and scheduled for the 27th October at the Hotel l’Approdo in Pettenasco. The best chefs in the area of Novara plus two guest chefs for this evening of solidarity. Luisa and Angelo Valazza  for “Il Sorriso“, Antonio Cannavacciuolo from Villa Crespi in Orta San Giulio, [...]

Terra Madre

“…eating is an agricultural act and producing is a gastronomical art”. This is the slogan that Terra Madre uses for being recognized from food lovers. Terra Madre is a project conveived by Slow Food which had always stood for the pleasures of the table, for the importance of good-tasting food and for the defence of cultures [...]

Red&Black: two colours for contemporary art

This month the Galleria Lodi in Milan hosts a special historical and literary exhibition called: Red and Black. Inspired by Stendhal books and by his love for the city of Milan, the two well known curators Paolo Manazza and Alessandro Visca have realized an unusual combination of artists. Davide Nido, Dani Vescovi, Rosalinda Celentano, Luca Pignatelli: a [...]

The Museum of Curiosity

For those who describe themself as curious persons and who love strnage things, there’s something you should know. In the republic of San Marino (Italy), there’s the first “Museum of Curiosity“. Here, the most strangest objects, people, facts, happenings that are just incredible! From the tallest man in the world, the fatter man or the smallest woman [...]

What’s up?

For those who won’t have the possiblity to visit London during the weekend of the 23rd-27th October, you should know that at the same time there’s Art Verona going on. One of the most important appointment for Italian contemporary art. During this art fair all the best Italian galleries will be present for presenting their [...]

October in London is art

For those who are planning to visit London on the second weekend in October you can consider yourself lucky!Starting from Thursday the 16th until Sunday the 19th, the bucolic location of Regent’s Park will host three major events in Contemporary Art scene: Frieze, Scope and Pulse London. What’s about them? Frieze it’s an regular event which [...]

Milk and laughs

Mummy, are you sad? Studies conducted at the Moriguchi Keijinkai Hospital in Osaka (Japan) have showned how a mother’s happiness and laughs could make her milk better and even “healing”. Researches were based on babies affected by eczema. A group of mums have been put in front of a Charlie Chaplin’s movie and another one in front [...]

Television Chapter

Per un po’ di settimane DaringToDo affronterà un nuovo argomento di discussione concedendo spazio anche a tutti coloro che con l’oggetto in questione ci lavorano: la Televisione. Si cercherà attraverso un’ analisi critica di ciò che vediamo sul piccolo schermo su come il mezzo, in divenire e nei suoi cinquant’anni di vita da poco compiuti, [...]

Update Finale Ligure Festival

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Update Teramo Warehouse

We’d talked about the Teramo Warehouse few weeks ago. This new concept gallery is willing to work hard, to organize events and realize projects. Here there are some of the latest news about it. Keep reading! On the 27th of September Matteo Fato will open his personal exhibition. A really huge work for let the public [...]

Long neck women

The “long neck women” belong to a Khmer(Myanmar) tribe that today lives in the northern area of Thailand. The explanation of their name stays in the several golden rings they start wearing at the age of 5. The legend tells that centuries ago, wicked spirits set on the womed ferocious tigers as a punishment for unknown [...]

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Technology is making huge progresses and keep up with everything is extremely hard. The latest realization of a video camera not just eye shaped but with eye characteristics and dimensions, seems to me incredible. New frontiers for the eye surgery and ophthalmology, a better control of the cerebral activity and several uses in the security controls [...]

The madness’ praise

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I’ve seen things

If you observe his picture on the University of Illinois website, the oriental traits of the scientist Yonggang Huang, that with his colleague John Rogers has realized a video camera prototype in an eye shape, they resemble scientist Chew’s features. Chew was the great scientist that in Blade Runner introduced himself saying “I make eyes!”. This [...]

Apple spectator while Microsoft staggers

For those fanatics of computers and electronics the final challenge between the two colossal Microsoft and Apple finally has come. Microsoft after the issue of its latest Windows version – Vista- is going through a period of strong instability for the company. Meanwhile Apple is profiting by Microsoft’s difficulties so hardly that in the last [...]

Music changes our brain

Music changes our brain. Apparently, a research study conducted by the Harvard Medical School (Boston, Usa) explains how playing an instrument regularly, helps our nervous system changing and evolving its functions. Gottfried Schlaug studied 31 boys aged 6 that at the time the study was made -1995- were playing an instrument. In particular, he analyzed [...]

What’s up?

Part from the two big realities of Sotheby’s and Christie’s, there are several more auction houses offering a wide variety of opportunities for both buyers and sellers. So, for those who are not so practice, check out the catalogue of these auctions houses : Pandolifini, Semenzato-Finarte, Dorotheum, Phillips de Pury and Company and Galerie Koller. And this [...]

Enzo Rossi Bio

We talked about this unique artist and his arrival in Sweden but a little biography about his studies and his academic career. Enzo Rossi borns in Civita Castellana (Novara), lives and works in Cameri. He studied at Brera Academy of Arts in Milan. He took an Architecture degree as well, and he graduated with glowing report. [...]

Update Finale Ligure Festival

We didn’t have many information about Finale Ligure Festival beacuse everything is changing and evolving.So, our promise was to keep you updated and here we are!! Andrej Mussa will make a 30 minutes video for the work “Maine” by Riccardo Deni. Cosimo Terlizzi will bring on the project “Apartment Video” that will be joined by the [...]

Auction highlights

In order to facilitate this process, we report an highlight of the top auctions for the up coming months. For the moment Sotheby’s and Christie’s have a sure schedule of the future sales, while minor auction houses are not so reliable with dates, times and locations. We will keep you up-dated with cocktail event for preview [...]

Matrimonial secrets

Would you like to be always on shape and brilliant with your partner? If you desire it, you better stop using Viagra and start thinking on doing real sport. Actually two studies, one Swiss and one American, confirm that burning at least four thousands calories per week reduces about the 83% of the risk of impotence. There are [...]

What’s up?

In addition to what we told you this week we suggest you few more things: Part from the various art galleries that start to be very numerous in the Thai capital city, there’s a fantastic initiative the nation provided in phe past years known as : Thailand New Media Art Festival. This festival lasted three years, [...]

Enzo Rossi and the Swedish twinning

It has been celebrated with the art work “Dicoto Mix” the visit of Enzo Rossi in the Swedish territory. The famous Italian artist from Civita, arrived in Vannas, in the Vasterbotten county for the National Swedish Party: during this event the artist of the MG Art society gave to the municipality his latest creation. The art [...]

Frontone Village, Ponza, Italy

One hour by oat from Rome and slightly more from Naples, Ponza is a little infamous Island in the Mediterranean sea. With a very nice harbour, little characteristics shops, and a busting nightlife, Ponza is considered one the hottest destinations for teens and youths. This island is a perfect combination of beautiful sea, especially if you [...]

Art in Bangkok city

Bangkok. Thailand. Chaotic and extremely smoggy, the capital of this Asian state can be defined as a pulsing hart for fashion, design and art of course. Its central location in the region gives artists the possibility to use the capital city as a base for their work, especially for its connections with the international market. Therefore, [...]

Do you really know your language?

Do you know which is the longest word in the English dictionary? Actually it is quite difficult to decide according to the different branches you consider. However, we can say that officially the longest word is a 29 characters word: floccinaucinihiliplification. This means “ the act of estimating worthless”. Then, there’s antidisestablishmentarianism with its 28 letters, meaning “opposition [...]

What’s up?

According to the special article we published about the new concept stores trend, here there are few addresses for you as a starting point. Try to visit them and tell us what you think!! TAD: Via Statuto 1, 20121 Milano. Tel: 02 65506731; mail: milano@taditaly.com SPAZIO ROSSANA ORLANDI: Via Matteo Bandello 14/16 20123 Milano | Tel: [...]

A major triumph at the Billionaire club for Caroline Dechamby

We are talking about a great success when we describe the fantastic event that saw protagonist of the Billionaire in Porto Cervo the artist Caroline Dechamby. This elegance and charmg lady, has been the absolute star for just one night, with all the flash, tv and journalists there for her. Flavio Briatore, the owner of the [...]

Contemporaneamente (a new space for art)

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Not a simple store: a concept store

Are you looking for a design lamp? A crazy couch or an exclusive detail for your new house? Innovation and originality, casualty and luxury: this is what you can find in the stores defined by the latest trends as “concept stores”. Gifts ideas, expensive but durable objects and stupid gadgets are mixed in a combination of [...]

Propitiatory dances

During the centuries and among different civilizations, the dance acquired several different meanings: therapeutic, erotic, weeding dance, funeral, initiatory and propitiatory. Not a frivolous activity but rather a very ancient practice that 20,000 years old paintings testify. Figures with coloured masks, animals and sometimes arms, are represented while making propitiatory rituals for hunting and fertility. Even today, [...]

What’s up?

In addition to what we told you this week we suggest you few more things: Actually going to India to watch this fantastic show would be very nice, but maybe too far and too expensive. So, you can try to experience some Italin kite shows. For more info click here. [...]

La nostra filosofia

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Quiberon

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Melted Art

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Indian kites

In India, kites are a real art expression. In fact, they are used during several religious festivities and lay celebrations too. Here, thousands of patang –the Indian word for kite- fill the sky with their colours, their movements and “fights” as well. What? Well, you have to know in Asia there are not just challenges among kites [...]

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