A Volontà: Blog

1. Buona festa della mamma

   May 9, 2020
   There are many things my Italian-born mother does not like about traveling in Italy. “Number one, when I go around Italy, I need to hear music,” she says. She wants to feel like she is in the movies;  to be Sofia Loren, to splash around the Trevi Fountain in a…

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2. Ball Bearings around Zurich

   May 4, 2020
   On steel, flush with the ground in three locations around Zurich, is a 2007 art installation by the American artist Lawrence Weiner, in three languages: In English at Bellevue: BALL BEARINGS OR ROUND STONES MADE TO ROLL OUT OF WHAT THERE IS  In German at Limmatplatz:  KUGELLAGER ODER RUNDE STEINE…

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3. Italia, l’azzura

   May 2, 2020
   Azzurro is the national color of Italy, chosen at the time of the Risorgimento, in 1861. It is not quite teal, or peacock, or cyan - it is the color of the sky at its most saturated. The Italian azzurro  is more precisely azzurro Savoia, Savoy blue, of the…

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