Legend has it that the 19-year-old young man from Mississippi Robert Lorey Johnson made a deal with the Devil. An African American Doctor Faust who sold his soul not to become omniscient but to be…
In the late XIX century, Stéphane Mallarmé was a sort of “lay messiah” who had come down to Earth to direct artists and intellectuals to new horizons. As the French poet Laurent Thailade once recalled:…
Madame Alphonsine Rose Plessis, better known as Marie Duplessis, Countess of Pérregaux, was twenty-three years old when she died of tuberculosis in 1847. Despite the title, acquired by marriage in 1846, she is not part…
Amor vacui, love for emptiness: absence that makes presence, silence that deafens, darkness that illuminates. It’s difficult to manage it, it takes very little to let it take over and make everything collapsing in an…
The only person in the world who could boast of having (twice) bathed in the Trevi Fountain was Anita Ekberg. Indeed, before the iconic scene from La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini, the Swedish actress…
“Everything we do is music”. A strong mission statement by John Cage, outstanding in his ability to both confirm and refute the very definition of music: art and technique of combining sounds, simple or complex,…