*Italians might remove the name and the novels of “Walter Scott” and substitute the name and the novel of “Alessandro Manzoni.” Also, Scott’s private “Abbotsford” can be better understood in an Italian context as Torino’s public “Borgo Medioevale.” *They are aspects of the same thing.

Made-in-Italy, and they look nice. https://www.domusweb.it/en/news/2025/04/15/winter-olympic-2026-torches-carlo-ratti.html

https://www.designboom.com/art/coachella-art-installations-festival-california-04-14-2025/ A standout art installation at Coachella 2025 is Taffy by Stephanie Lin, a mesmerizing work which continues to blur the line between sculpture and environment. Seven cylindrical towers cloaked in scalloped mesh flutter and ripple in the wind, creating flickering moiré patterns that appear and disappear with each gust. Painted in hues borrowed from […]

https://rhizome.org/editorial/2025/apr/03/rhizome-world/ Rhizome World opens this Friday at WSA in New York City! April 18- May 11 WSA, 161 Water Street, New York, NY 10038 Open Fridays 6-9pm and Saturday and Sundays 12-6pm Free with RSVP Introducing Rhizome World, a month-long exhibition and weekly events celebrating software art at WSA in the Financial District of lower […]

Sir Walter Scott is said to be the creator of “historical fiction,” “historical romance” or “romantic nationalism,” a literary innovation so popular that Scott became the world’s first international bestselling author. In this letter to one of his many aristocratic cronies, Scott seems to anticipate, and recommend, the invention of “heritage tourism.” You may see […]

https://theartmarket.artbasel.com The Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report “The ninth edition of The Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report, authored by cultural economist Dr. Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, provides a comprehensive, macroeconomic, benchmark analysis of the state of the global art market in 2024. This annual report examines various segments, including […]

https://www.newsweek.com/artificial-intelligence-impact-series-principles-future-ai-2058820 With the publication of the first three interviews in the Newsweek AI Impact series, it is a good time to reflect and distill the essence of what we have learned to date. The remarkable thing for me is the level of coherence and alignment among the views of the first three interviewees, despite their […]

I wrote a parodic sequel to Primo Levi’s story “Il Versificatore,” just now published in ROBOT magazine (in Italian, of course).

*It does what it says on the label. https://youtu.be/Eu3ygZh8pY8?si=pnLNRAO5hRKL32_4

“Inspired by Ted Chiang,” that’s interesting. https://www.artuner.com/curations/stories-of-your-lives/ LAST WEEK: Stories of Your Lives Giulia Andreani, Louise Bonnet, Glenn Brown, Manuele Cerutti, Marcus Cope, David Czupryn, Carroll Dunham, Walton Ford, Lenz Geerk, Ernst Yohji Jaeger, Ragnar Kjartansson, Sergey Kononov, Pia Krajewski, Victor Man, Danielle Mckinney, Keita Morimoto, Paulina Olowska, Pietro Roccasalva, Jan-Luka Schmitz, Rinus Van de […]