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Ernest Hemingway writing at his campsite in Kenya in 1953

Books

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

Alessia Sciannamblo

Cyr - The eleventh studio album of The Smashing Pumpkins

Music

Cyr | Smashing Pumpkins’ homage to synth-pop

Edoardo Chen

Invisible Cities, a love poem to the city - black and white photo of Venice

Books

Invisible Cities | A love poem to the city

Giulia Viganò

A men risks drowning while looking at his phone, in a Selfie scene

Movies

Selfie | Meaning (and connection) cravings

Skye Kuppig

A Dublin's Corner by night.

Books

Normal People | Relations rarely concern the two lovers only

Alessia Sciannamblo

A village

TV Shows

The Good Place could be a better place

Leonardo Vitali

In the Mood for Love shapes solitude and expectation. It does so through locations as well. This image shows two tree trunks inside the ancient temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Angkor Wat is an important location in the movie.

Movies

In the Mood for Love | Loneliness and expectation

Andrea Donini

Brooklyn Bridge - NYC

Books

The New York Trilogy is a brilliant philosophical adventure

Erica Bassani

One Hundred Years of Solitude - A palm

Books

One Hundred Years of Solitude | History in a family saga

Carmen De Nisi

Lady on a beach - scene from the film Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Movies

Portrait of a Lady on Fire | A manifesto about the female gaze

Skye Kuppig

Love & Ashes - a photo of Messanges, France

Music

Love & Ashes | Blood and Sun’s American neofolk

Jacopo Soru

Saint Peter and Saint Paul | The new Renaissance standards - The statues' location is the Loggia della Mercanzia, in Siena, Italy

Art

Saint Peter and Saint Paul | The new Renaissance standards

Valentina Manganaro

A production still from The Trial of the Chicago 7 featuring the defendants in the courtroom

Movies

The Trial of the Chicago 7 | A movie about today

Skye Kuppig

Dear white people - A black woman inside a recording studio is holding her headphones

TV Shows

Dear White People | An exploration of racial identity

Valeria Usala

Film still from 1944 Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman

Movies

Gaslight | When the personal becomes political

Skye Kuppig

Chernobyl - A woman and two men are discussing inside a room on a plan to follow and save millions of lives

TV Shows

Chernobyl | What history can teach

Valeria Usala

Pride and Prejudice -

Books

Pride and Prejudice | Where femininity builds masculinity

Matilde Castagnone

Another Round - Mads Mikkelsen chugging a bottle of champagne in Thomas Vinterberg's Another Round

Movies

Another Round | Awakening to Life

Skye Kuppig

A portrait of colorful parrot on a black backgroung.

Books

The Broom of the System is like the pendulum of a clock

Hypercritic Editorial Staff

A part of the vault frescos of Correggio's Camera della Badessa.

Art

The Chamber of the Abbess | The impossible art reproduction

Valentina Manganaro

Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carell in “The Morning Show,”

TV Shows

The Morning Show | A story about power

Valeria Usala

Photo of Betty and Zorg in front of a pink and blue wall, from the film Betty Blue

Movies

Betty Blue | A commentary on women depiction in the media

Skye Kuppig

View from La Morra, Piedmont, Italy.

Books

A Private Affair overlaps a personal and a civil dilemma

Alessia Sciannamblo

The Stockholm library

Books

Luis Borges’ Fictions is a game of chance

Alessia Sciannamblo

Between the World and me talks about the black body, an issue that has been recently shared by the Black Lives Matter movement

Books

Between the World and Me | Opening a third way to fight

Alessia Sciannamblo

Andrew being screamed at by Fletcher while playing in Whiplash

Movies

Whiplash | Deromanticizing music and success

Nadia Corvino

A rolling egg from the web site

Contemporary Art

Eggalone.com plays with digital space perception

Christine Bax

The Hours - Bouquet de fleurs au muguet

Books

The Hours | A novel overcoming time and space

Erica Bassani

A picture of The Shock of the Future's protagonist

Movies

The Shock of the Future | It’s the music that matters

Skye Kuppig

A black and white film still from Rebecca

Movies

Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller

Skye Kuppig

Pesaro Altarpiece

Art

The Pesaro Altarpiece and the painting within a painting

Valentina Manganaro

Dr. Meredith Grey is the protagonist of Grey's Anatomy, a pillar in the modern TV era

TV Shows

Grey’s Anatomy | A pillar in the modern TV era

Hypercritic Editorial Staff

Sebastian Diaz Morales' Suspension creates a fantastic allegory for contemporary society. The film shows a figure floating in an undefined emptiness.

Contemporary Art

Suspension is an allegory for contemporary society

Christine Bax

Ode to Psyche - John Keats

Poems

Ode to Psyche | John Keats’ tribute to the soul goddess

Sofia Fiorini

Bridgerton is a revolutionary period romance. The TV show aims to be a more inclusive version of a genre in which tradition is characterized by a predominance of white characters. The image shows Golda Rosheuvel as Queen Charlotte (based on real historical speculation regarding Queen Charlotte's African ancestry).

TV Shows

Bridgerton | A revolutionary period drama

Andrea Donini

Art

The Bust of Costanza Bonarelli hides a story of jealousy

Valentina Manganaro

Normal People: Marianne and Connell sitting in the tall grass.

TV Shows

Normal People | Diverting the viewer’s expectations

Valeria Usala

In The Deposition From the Cross, Jacopo Pontormo gives an unconventional take on the deposition of Christ.

Art

Pontormo’s unconventional Deposition From the Cross

Valentina Manganaro

Art

The Chapel of the Holy Shroud is a journey towards the light

Valentina Manganaro

The crossdresser's secret - Portrait of the Chevalier D'Eon

Contemporary Art

The Crossdresser’s Secret and the story of Chevalier d’Eon

Christine Bax

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Still from Ma Rainey's Black Bottom featuring Viola Davis as Ma Rainey

Movies

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom | A Case of the Blues

Skye Kuppig

The Majesty - Enthroned Madonna with the child Jesus, whether or not accompanied with angels and saints.

Art

The Majesty of Simone Martini in Siena

Valentina Manganaro

Poems

A Myth of Devotion | Louise Glück on love and oppression

Agnese Mosconi

A row of desks in a classroom.

Books

The Topeka School describes a polarized society

Alessia Sciannamblo

The film Tightrope, by Russian artist Taus Makhacheva, shows Rasul Abakarov crossing a canyon carrying 61 works from the Dagestani Museum of Fine Art.

Contemporary Art

Tightrope is a balancing act between art and history

Christine Bax

Great Expectations - Dickens's Dream

Books

Great Expectations | The path to becoming a gentleman

Alessia Sciannamblo

Windswept Adan - In this image we see a rocky shoreline and a piece of land in the distance with some mountains

Music

Windswept Adan | Healing music for pandemic times

Jacopo Soru

Ambient 1: Music for Airports. In close relation with space - An Interior view of Yeşilköy airport

Music

Ambient 1: Music for Airports | A sonic field to explore

Flavia Di Mauro

A red neon heart.

Books

Camere Separate | The search for a balanced existence

Alessia Sciannamblo

Winter's Endless Space (Between You & I) goes in two opposite directions at the same moment, offering a sharp compositional oxymoron

Music

Dreaming an Endless Space (Between You & I)

Giovanni Pigliacelli

Rhododendron Javanicum

Poems

Think not I am faithful to a vow! | Love according to Edna Millay

Sofia Fiorini

Francis Alÿs Color Matching. The artist as a witness

Contemporary Art

Color Matching | The artist as a witness

Veronica Schirru

Michael Smith's Untitled shows an alligator claw holding a clothes hanger, providing a lead for further contemplation through subtle, everyday objects.

Contemporary Art

Untitled provides for contemplation through everyday objects

Christine Bax

Underworld - New York picture in black and white

Books

Underworld | A dual conception of history

Alessia Sciannamblo

Houses at Murnau - Kandinsky Artwork

Art

Houses at Murnau | Simply and colorful inspirations

Valentina Manganaro

Painting of the raising of Lazarus by Caravaggio

Art

The Raising of Lazarus shows Caravaggio’s innovations

Valentina Manganaro

A scene from the movie Manchester By The Sea

Movies

Manchester by the Sea | An emotional study on grief

Iside Sparagio

The BLM Banksy statue contributes to the discussion about tearing down the many other colonialist statues and statues of slave traders around the world.

Contemporary Art

The BLM Banksy Statue honors a time of change

Christine Bax

High Fidelity's protagonist Robert works as a record shop owner. This image shows some vintage vinyls

Books

High Fidelity | The redemptive power of music and love

Alessia Sciannamblo

Charley, Nova and Ralph Angel Bordelon, the protagonist of Queen Sugar.

TV Shows

Queen Sugar is a portrayal of oppression

Valeria Usala

Still from if Beale Street Could Talk, Red Umbrella on Minetta lane

Movies

If Beale Street Could Talk | A story of ecstatic love

Skye Kuppig

Circulus at Progeny 3, Leamington Spa

Music

The Lick On The Tip Of An Envelope Yet To Be Sent

Jacopo Soru

Datura Cornucopia

Poems

Musée des Beaux Arts | When Auden met Bruegel

Agnese Mosconi

Sitting cows in the grass.

Music

Atom Heart Mother is Pink Floyd’s weirdest experiment

Jacopo Soru

Joseph the Carpenter - Painting of an old man (Saint Joseph) and child holding a candle

Art

Joseph the Carpenter shows de la Tour’s mise-en-scene

Valentina Manganaro

Desperate Housewives - San Francisco's terraced houses

TV Shows

Mistery and domestic struggles in Desperate Housewives

Jordi Ferrer Torres

Could Have - Primula acaulis

Poems

Could Have | Szymborska’s philosophy of wonder

Agnese Mosconi

I Know This Much is True - Dominick is sitting on the edge of a waterfall and reads the notes his mother gave him about the story of his grandfather

TV Shows

I Know This Much is True | A centrifuge of sadness

Valeria Usala

Selma - An old photo of the front line of the Selma to Montgomery march 1965 w/ Martin Luther King Jr.

Movies

Selma | Drawing out the essence of Martin Luther King Jr.

Skye Kuppig

The work Balloons on the Sea, by Turkish artist Hale Tenger, consists of one main video, projected on the wall, and six videos spread throughout the room.

Contemporary Art

Balloons on the Sea brings to mind synesthesia

Christine Bax

Selina Meyers in VEEP

TV Shows

VEEP | A female vice-president? Not fiction anymore

Federica Gandolfo

Books

The Road explores climate crisis and alienation

Alessia Sciannamblo

500 Letters is a digital artist statement generator, created by the Belgian artist Jasper Rigole as a provocation against artist spaces.

Contemporary Art

500 Letters questions accessibility within the art world

Christine Bax

Joanna Piotrowska Self-defence How to translate through gesture

Contemporary Art

Self-defence | How to translate through gesture

Veronica Schirru

A shuriken depicting the symbol of the superhero Batman, also known as "The Dark Knight"

Movies

The Dark Knight | An allegory of 9/11 and The War on Terror

Andrea Donini

Emmanuelle Riva in Amour by Michael Haneke

Movies

Amour | An experience

Giorgio Reclama

Bombay Rose's protagonist Kamala spins against a pink backdrop

Movies

Bombay Rose has a unique visual animation style

Skye Kuppig

Center of a star cluster - topic covered in Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Books

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Beauty unfold

Nadia Corvino

Muses and women celebration | Polyhymnia - A colors dance

Music

Polyhymnia | Muses and women celebration

Hypercritic Editorial Staff

Miel - Tourist Season Cover

Music

Tourist Season offers a space of tenderness

Giovanni Pigliacelli

Hollywood is a Netflix miniseries created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. The TV show reimagines and rewrites the history of the Golden Age of Hollywood through a progressive and inclusive lens.

TV Shows

Hollywood | Rewriting the Golden Age of cinema

Andrea Donini

Esty is getting shaved by a woman after her marriage

TV Shows

Unorthodox | Finding one own’s voice

Valeria Usala

British artist Banksy released his BLM Painting in June 2020 in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and the protests following George Floyd's death.

Contemporary Art

The BLM Banksy Painting exposes a white problem

Christine Bax

The Song of Songs - Rambler Rose (Rosa multiflora)

Poems

The Song of Songs | The erotic way to God

Sofia Fiorini

San Girolamo -St. Jerome reading in his studio, painted by Antonello da Messina, 1475 ca.

Art

Saint Jerome in his study | A new humanist iconography

Valentina Manganaro

Still from a dance sequence in Dark City Beneath the Beat

Movies

Dark City Beneath the Beat is Baltimore’s audiovisual symphony

Skye Kuppig

Begonia

Poems

I Write to Vent the Inward Pain in My Heart

Maria Cristina Parenti

Two protagonists from the film Parasite

Movies

Parasite | Defying definition and labels

Skye Kuppig

Naturally is J.J. Cale's first album, released in 1971. In Naturally, he openly embraces a feeling of quietness, clear southern skies, and dusty roads.

Music

J.J. Cale’s Naturally is a classic of the blues-rock genre

Jacopo Soru

Agata Trzebuchowska in Ida by Paweł Pawlikowski

Movies

Ida | A journey to discover one’s own identity

Giorgio Reclama

Raffaello's painting Madonna di Foligno is a colorful example of an ex-voto, a form of religious offering to a divinity after a request has been granted.

Art

Madonna di Foligno gathers all Raffaello Sanzio’s fundamentals

Valentina Manganaro

Wanting to Die - Illustration of a plant with yellow flowers - Vintage Illustration of Banana

Poems

Wanting to Die | Anne Sexton’s lust for precipice

Agnese Mosconi

An Image of Kwade's work Weltenlinie

Contemporary Art

Alicja Kwade’s WeltenLinie interacts with the surroundings

Christine Bax

two men are smoking and drinking at a bar in dim light

TV Shows

Mad Men | The pursuit of happiness in American society

Valeria Usala

A melted ice-cream in a street.

Books

Tiffany McDaniel’s The summer that melted everything

Alessia Sciannamblo

Garden of the Arcane Delights - The image shows a cemetery in the woods, thus some tree are visible together along with many tombs. At the center of the image, between two trees there is a headless statue

Music

Garden of the Arcane Delights | A tribe of darkness

Jacopo Soru

Classic Bowler Hat on Chessboard

Books

The Unbearable Lightness of Being exposes love’s dynamics

Erica Bassani

At Newport 1960 - An old photos

Music

At Newport 1960 is a blues fresco impossible to resist

Jacopo Soru

Photo of Angela Davis in an abandoned railway station

Movies

13th |A lineage of racial oppression across 150 years

Skye Kuppig

Theatrical Poster for Kubrick's 1962 Lolita

Books

Lolita | A character taking on a life of its own

Alessia Sciannamblo

A woman is sitting at a desk inside an office and another woman is standing in front of her, discussing an investigation case

TV Shows

Unbelievable | A story of injustice

Valeria Usala

Movies

Minimalism and poetry in Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad

Skye Kuppig

Akhmatova's Love anthem

Poems

You thought I was that type | Akhmatova’s love anthem

Sofia Fiorini

Gary Oldman as Herman Mankiewicz in Mank

Movies

Mank | The Impression of a Man’s Life

Skye Kuppig

The Queen's Gambit - Beth Harmon is sitting in a room full of people during an important chess match, opening with the Queen's Gambit

TV Shows

The Queen’s Gambit | A western on the chessboard

Valeria Usala

In Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin's Soap Bubbles, a childhood game becomes a metaphor for the impermanence of life.

Art

Chardin’s Soap Bubbles portrays life in pastel tones

Valentina Manganaro

Stefaneschi Triptych - The Retro Side

Art

The Stefaneschi Triptych gathers two different stories

Valentina Manganaro

Amy Adams in Arrival

Movies

Arrival | A close encounter of the fifth kind

Giorgio Reclama

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