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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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Finale Ligure Festival

The city of Finale Ligure, close to Savona, in Liguria, is organizing for the month of September ( but maybe it’s going to be May 2009) a festival of visual arts and various shows. The project consists of different theatre performances, ballets, concerts that will be joined and followed by art works like video [...]

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At Borgia del Casale

At Borgia del Casale in Ortigia è un luogo fantastico. La piazza limitrofa si apre, tra le sinuosità dei palazzi, saluta timida il Duomo, entra molle nelle vie circostanti. Spira, con le sue esalazioni rococò nelle stanze di Palazzo Borgia. E’ la Sicilia secca degli agrumi, dalla pelle ruvida e turgida. photo credit: Ai@ce Questo [...]

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