Italian Painting, Before the Fall
Mario Sironi, “Composizione con elica (Composition with Propeller)” (1919), tempera and collage on board, 29 5/16 × 24 3/16 inches, Mattioli Collection, Italy, © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS) /...
The Sexual Politics of Yeats’s ‘Leda and the Swan’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4CJ7h3mX4Q Video by The Nerdwriter (Evan Puschak) Reading "Leda and The Swan," the sonnet by William Butler Yeats, is an experience—it's a vivid and violent retelling of a Greek myth...
Long COVID Could Be Linked to the Effects of SARS-CoV-2 on the Vagus Nerve
New research to be presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2022, Lisbon, April 23-26) suggests that many of the symptoms connected to post-COVID...
MAXXI Gets $17 M. from Italian Government for Sustainability Initiative
[caption id="attachment_96432" align="aligncenter" width="810"] Performers warm up inside the new national museum for contemporary arts and architecture in Rome's Flaminio district.AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito[/caption] Italy has allocated €15 million ($17...
Brussels Museum Returns Lovis Corinth Painting to Heirs of German Owners
[caption id="attachment_96430" align="aligncenter" width="810"] Visitors at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Photo Francisco Seco/AP[/caption] The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels have returned a...
María Esther Fernández on Creating a Nexus for Chicanx Art and Research
[caption id="attachment_96427" align="aligncenter" width="810"] Rendering of the facade of the Cheech. Courtesy Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture[/caption] In January 2022, A.i.A. spoke with María Esther Fernández, artistic...