This traditional "Spring Festival" celebrating colours and love originates from India. The Holi Festival is an event of ancient origins celebrating the arrival of summer and involving music, dance...
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THE LOUVRE MUSEUM COMES TO ABU DHABI
A new version of the Parisian Louvre museum is being built in the UAE and is due to be completed by the latter half of 2016. It will be located on Saadiyat Island and will make Abu Dhabi a world...
"THE MERCURY THEATRE": ART ON INSTAGRAM BECOMES A REALITY SHOW
The Mercury Theatre is an illustrative project that started on Instagram, involving about thirty international artists who gathered under an anonymous account, receiving votes from users as if in a...
HOW PAINTING INFLUENCES CINEMA
There is a strong symbiosis between painting and cinema. Both can envelop the viewer, creating an atmosphere and arousing emotions through colour, composition and often without words. The best...
PEOPLE RETURN TO THE CENTRE IN TAHITI
Mythical is the only word that truly describes and does justice to the beauty of Bora Bora, with the prehistoric magnificence of Mount Otemanu, which dominates the lagoon surrounded by the coral reef.
GREENTERIOR: CREATIVITY AND LOVE OF PLANTS
What do a painter, publisher, florist and interior designer have in common? They all have a passion for plants and will want to leaf through this book to the very last page. Greenterior is a creation...
FASHION DISCOVERS NEW MATERIALS
The fashion industry experiments with new textiles, with an eye on the environment and recycling. After the traditional organic cotton, bamboo and hemp, it is taking another step forward, testing...
CUBA, HOW FASHIONABLE ARE YOU!
In Cuba, even a fashion catwalk can mark the course of history. The strides of the models are a great step forward for a country that after fifty years of embargo wants to rediscover a bit of joy and...
THE RAREST COLOURS IN THE WORLD
Thanks to technology, we can now obtain any colour or hue imaginable. However, go back in time and we can see how difficult it was to research and find the right colour. In the nineteenth century,...
HIKARU DORODANGO: SHINING MUD
To paraphrase Fabrizio De Andrè, if nothing grows from diamonds, spheres as shiny as diamonds can grow from mud. Hikaru Dorodango literally means "to make mud shine": it is a Japanese art form in...