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A SHORT WALK INTO ART
Branch acrobatics, nests that turn into sculptures, gigantic butterfly cocoons. Unusual compositions transform Val di Fiemme into an open air gallery thanks to the environmental creativity project RespirArt - Pampeago Green&White Gallery. A journey with stops along the way inviting one to live the mountainous landscape differently through specific site installations. The land art project, conceived by the artist Marco Nones and journalist Beatrice Calamari, wishes to celebrate the Dolomite landscape of Latemar declared a Natural Heritage of humanity by UNESCO.
WOMEN TO REMEMBER
From Eleonora Duse, muse of the poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, to Felicia Bartolotta, mother of the anti-mafia hero Peppino Impastato. From Maria Giuseppina, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, to Linda Keith, talent scout of the guitarist Jimi Hendrix. Their stories are the centre of the book “101 women that were behind 101 great men”, written by the journalist Maria Leonarda Leone and published by Newton Compton. Homage to the tenacity, to the practical sense and to the interior strength of women, experts in the art of giving their support and asking nothing in return.
A PARK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SKY
A green oasis suspended between the blocks of Manhattan’s West Side. The High Line of New York (www.thehighline.org), the elevated rail line near the banks of the river Hudson, originally opened in 1934 and not used since 1980, was transformed into a public park 10 metres up from the ground. Steel rails and cement pylons blend in perfectly with the green renewal project signed by James Corner Field Operations, by the architects Diller Scofidio+Renfro and by the planting designer Piet Oudolf. The park’s history is told in the book High Line by Joshua David and Robert Hammond, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (www.fsgbooks.com)
