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Sports

Montréal 1976 | Comăneci and the price of the perfect ten

Matilde Castagnone

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

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

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

TV Shows

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel | It’s comedy time

Letizia Bastonero

Video Games

Gris | A new way of overcoming grief

Antonella Massaro

Brooklyn Bridge - NYC

Books

The New York Trilogy is a brilliant philosophical adventure

Erica Bassani

Community College

TV Shows

Community | The best college to attend

Federica Gandolfo

Everything Hans Ulrich Obrist Always Wanted to Know - The artwork: cover detail

Contemporary Art

Everything Hans Ulrich Obrist Always Wanted to Know…

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

Sidney 2000 | To learn how to swim and to become a myth | Sidney Landscape

Sports

Sydney 2000 | To learn how to swim and to become a myth

Nicola Maria Fioni

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

De Castro - Chilean Bellflower

Poems

The Atmosphere Is Incandescent | De Castro’s Journey Inward

Elena Traina

Still from a dance sequence in Dark City Beneath the Beat

Movies

Dark City Beneath the Beat is Baltimore’s audiovisual symphony

Skye Kuppig

Pride and Prejudice -

Books

Pride and Prejudice | Where femininity builds masculinity

Matilde Castagnone

A black and white film still from Rebecca

Movies

Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller

Skye Kuppig

A police car with sirens wailing in Brooklyn, NYC

TV Shows

Brooklyn Nine-Nine | The good cops do exist

Federica Gandolfo

Gozzano’s farewell to sadness | Balsamroot

Poems

The Ultimate Infidelity | Gozzano’s farewell to sadness

Sofia Fiorini

Muses and women celebration | Polyhymnia - A colors dance

Music

Polyhymnia | Muses and women celebration

Hypercritic Editorial Staff

Tii Plant - Dickinson

Poems

Because I Could Not Stop For Death | Dickinson’s unusual carriage

Agnese Mosconi

Ode to Psyche - John Keats

Poems

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

Sofia Fiorini

Locke

Movies

Locke | The hero’s journey at the wheel

Andrea Donini

The Caravaggio's Nativity | Art comes alive with new technologies

Art

The Nativity | Art comes alive with new technologies

Annamaria Russo

Catwoman Loeb Sale

Comics

Catwoman: When in Rome | A perspective on elegance

Gabriele Iuliano

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

forbidden harbor safe literary dock

Comics

The Forbidden Harbor | A safe literary dock for lost humanity

Cristina Danini

The Official Poster for the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019 was unveiled in Paris on Friday to coincide with International Women’s Day.

Sports

2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup | Dare to shine

Matilde Castagnone

Fearless - A woman holding a key with the word fearless engraved

Music

Fearless (Taylor’s Version) | A mature outlook on a coming-of-age record

Maria Chiara Pacifici

An Image of Kwade's work Weltenlinie

Contemporary Art

Alicja Kwade’s WeltenLinie interacts with the surroundings

Christine Bax

The Kominsky Method | Laughter and melancholy

TV Shows

The Kominsky Method | Laughter and melancholy

Federica Gandolfo

Dahlias - Mary Oliver

Poems

The Art of Praise | Fox by Mary Oliver

Sofia Fiorini

Niviâna and Jetñil-Kijiner's Rise | A Call to Action - Bergamot

Poems

Niviâna and Jetñil-Kijiner’s Rise | A Call to Action

Elena Traina

One Hundred Years of Solitude - A palm

Books

One Hundred Years of Solitude | History in a family saga

Carmen De Nisi

Harvest | The simplicity of a country-rock gem - Acoustic Guitar

Music

Harvest | The simplicity of a country-rock gem

Vanessa Cammarota

Madonna del Solletico | The magic of the first laughter - A detail

Art

Madonna del Solletico | The magic of the first laughter

Valentina Manganaro

"A Success Unexpected in Common Hours" | Walden, or Life in the Woods - A view of the woods surrounding Walden Pond. Autumn.

Books

“A success unexpected in common hours” | Walden; or, Life in the Woods

Flavia Di Mauro

Persepolis graphic novel war

Comics

Persepolis | An intimate narration of war

Cristina Danini

Andrew being screamed at by Fletcher while playing in Whiplash

Movies

Whiplash | Deromanticizing music and success

Nadia Corvino

Begonia

Poems

I Write to Vent the Inward Pain in My Heart

Maria Cristina Parenti

Amy Adams in Arrival

Movies

Arrival | A close encounter of the fifth kind

Giorgio Reclama

Agata Trzebuchowska in Ida by Paweł Pawlikowski

Movies

Ida | A journey to discover one’s own identity

Giorgio Reclama

Akhmatova's Love anthem

Poems

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

Sofia Fiorini

Ed Sheeran's Divide is the peak of his songwriting

Music

Ed Sheeran’s Divide is the peak of his songwriting

Isabella Cagna

Ted Lasso

TV Shows

Ted Lasso | Being good is the new being bad

Federica Gandolfo

Film still from 1944 Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman

Movies

Gaslight | When the personal becomes political

Skye Kuppig

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

Oxygen in my tents | Amelia Rosselli’s side of the story - Red Poppies

Poems

Oxygen in my tents | Amelia Rosselli’s side of the story

Sofia Fiorini

Norwegian Wood | The charm in simplicity

Books

Norwegian Wood | The charm in simplicity

Antonella Massaro

Flatland | A world limited to two dimensions - geometric pattern

Books

Flatland | A world limited to two dimensions

Giulia Viganò

Crosby Stills & Nash | A Matter of Balance - Crosby Stills and Nash at a Concert, August, 1974

Music

Crosby, Stills & Nash | A matter of balance

Flavia Di Mauro

Fantastic Mr. Fox | A story about animals and humans

Movies

Fantastic Mr. Fox | A story about animals and humans

Cristina Danini

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

Art

The Chamber of the Abbess | The impossible art reproduction

Valentina Manganaro

Francis Alÿs Color Matching. The artist as a witness

Contemporary Art

Color Matching | The artist as a witness

Veronica Schirru

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

A red neon heart.

Books

Camere Separate | The search for a balanced existence

Alessia Sciannamblo

Poems

To a passer-by | Charles Baudelaire’s lost opportunity

Sofia Fiorini

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

Pesaro Altarpiece

Art

The Pesaro Altarpiece and the painting within a painting

Valentina Manganaro

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

We’ll die apart | Love between temporality and eternity - Daylily

Poems

We’ll die apart | Love between temporality and eternity

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

Cyr - The eleventh studio album of The Smashing Pumpkins

Music

Cyr | Smashing Pumpkins’ homage to synth-pop

Edoardo Chen

Petunia - Rimbaud

Poems

My Bohemia | Rimbaud’s longing for freedom

Sofia Fiorini

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

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

The Waste Land | A influences constellation in an ode to desolation

Poems

The Waste Land | A influences constellation in an ode to desolation

Agnese Mosconi

Esty is getting shaved by a woman after her marriage

TV Shows

Unorthodox | Finding one own’s voice

Valeria Usala

The Stockholm library

Books

Luis Borges’ Fictions is a game of chance

Alessia Sciannamblo

Tales from the Loop | A guide on how to accept Time

TV Shows

Tales from the Loop | A guide on how to accept Time

Lucia Marinelli

Berserk Black Swordsman

Comics

Berserk | The path of the Black Swordsman

Giovanni Di Rienzo

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

Sitting cows in the grass.

Music

Atom Heart Mother is Pink Floyd’s weirdest experiment

Jacopo Soru

Society Within | The Life and Strange Adventure of Robinson Crusoe - Illustration by Walter Paget

Books

Society Within | The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Flavia Di Mauro

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

Emily, Lorelai and Rory. The Gilmore Girls

TV Shows

Gilmore Girls | An everlasting flavor of friendship

Letizia Bastonero

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

Grace is a pure drop in an ocean of noise.

Music

Grace | A pure drop in an ocean of noise

Vanessa Cammarota

Trying

TV Shows

Trying | An amusing glimpse into adoption

Sara Erriu

artwork

Contemporary Art

Skyspace-1 | An experience of sensory awareness

Anna Ainio

Moore Miracleman

Comics

Miracleman By Alan Moore | A society ruled by superheroes

Giovanni Di Rienzo

The Hours - Bouquet de fleurs au muguet

Books

The Hours | A novel overcoming time and space

Erica Bassani

Rosebud leaf - Rich

Poems

Twenty-One Love Poems | No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone

Roberta Truscia

An illustrative image from the movie Soul (Disney-Pixar, 2020)

Movies

Soul | Life is not about what you think it is

Antonella Massaro

Selina Meyers in VEEP

TV Shows

VEEP | A female vice-president? Not fiction anymore

Federica Gandolfo

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

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

Movies

Another Round | Awakening to Life

Skye Kuppig

Free Solo | The first man who climbed El Cap without ropes

Sports

Free Solo | The first man who climbed El Cap without ropes

Marco Massera

Classic Bowler Hat on Chessboard

Books

The Unbearable Lightness of Being exposes love’s dynamics

Erica Bassani

Poems

A Myth of Devotion | Louise Glück on love and oppression

Agnese Mosconi

Sixty Stories | Dino Buzzati's fantastic reality - dark spiral staircase

Books

Sessanta racconti | Dino Buzzati’s fantastic reality

Giulia Viganò

Datura Cornucopia

Poems

Musée des Beaux Arts | When Auden met Bruegel

Agnese Mosconi

A scene from the movie Manchester By The Sea

Movies

Manchester by the Sea | An emotional study on grief

Iside Sparagio

La voce del Padrone | Franco Battiato’s Pop Miracle

Music

La voce del Padrone | Franco Battiato’s Pop Miracle

Flavia Di Mauro

Theatrical Poster for Kubrick's 1962 Lolita

Books

Lolita | A character taking on a life of its own

Alessia Sciannamblo

Joanna Piotrowska Self-defence How to translate through gesture

Contemporary Art

Self-defence | How to translate through gesture

Veronica Schirru

Oedipus, Kavafis - Red Gladiolus

Poems

Kavafis’ Oedipus | Life is full of unsolvable riddles

Agnese Mosconi

View from La Morra, Piedmont, Italy.

Books

A Private Affair overlaps a personal and a civil dilemma

Alessia Sciannamblo

Houses at Murnau - Kandinsky Artwork

Art

Houses at Murnau | Simply and colorful inspirations

Valentina Manganaro

Memories of My Melancholy WHores ! In th Distance Between Lovers

Books

Memories of My Melancholy Whores | In the space dividing lovers

Flavia Di Mauro

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

The Tale of the Unknown Island | Dreaming the impossible | Ancient map of the world

Books

The Tale of the Unknown Island | Dreaming the impossible

Giulia Viganò

Great Expectations - Dickens's Dream

Books

Great Expectations | The path to becoming a gentleman

Alessia Sciannamblo

A scene from Captain Fantastic

Movies

Captain Fantastic | Can a family thrive away from society?

Nadia Corvino

Solos | Humans wanted - Helen Mirren

TV Shows

Solos | Humans wanted

Lucia Marinelli

WandaVision

TV Shows

WandaVision | The ultimate coping mechanism

Giulia Orati

Painting of the raising of Lazarus by Caravaggio

Art

The Raising of Lazarus shows Caravaggio’s innovations

Valentina Manganaro

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

The Song of Songs - Rambler Rose (Rosa multiflora)

Poems

The Song of Songs | The erotic way to God

Sofia Fiorini

Art

The Bust of Costanza Bonarelli hides a story of jealousy

Valentina Manganaro

Could Have - Primula acaulis

Poems

Could Have | Szymborska’s philosophy of wonder

Agnese Mosconi

Vintage tiger flower - Rupi Kaur.

Poems

Milk and Honey | The revolution of Instapoets

Agnese Mosconi

Love & Ashes - a photo of Messanges, France

Music

Love & Ashes | Blood and Sun’s American neofolk

Jacopo Soru

Maple Leaves - The road not taken

Poems

The Road Not Taken | A hymn to brave choices

Agnese Mosconi

Annus Mirabilis by Philip Larkin takes the atmosphere of Swinging London to talk about the sexual revolution that occurred at that time.

Poems

Larkin’s Annus Mirabilis sings of the 1960s sexual revolution

Agnese Mosconi

House, M.D. | Diagnostics becomes investigation

TV Shows

House, M.D. | When diagnostics becomes investigation

Cristina Danini

Triumph of Bacchus | Lorenzo de' Medici's ballade - Orange Lily

Poems

Triumph of Bacchus | Lorenzo de’ Medici’s ballade

Maria Cristina Parenti

The Chicks

Music

Chicks’Home | The controversy that almost ended the career

Isabella Cagna

One Art | Losing is not the end of the world

Poems

One Art | Losing is not the end of the world

Agnese Mosconi

Circulus at Progeny 3, Leamington Spa

Music

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

Jacopo Soru

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

1980 Wimbledon final | The clash of styles to be immortal - Borg vs McEnroe

Sports

1980 Wimbledon | The clash of styles to be immortal

Marco Massera

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

Rhododendron Javanicum

Poems

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

Sofia Fiorini

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

A picture of The Shock of the Future's protagonist

Movies

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

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

Jojo Rabbit | The best Nazi in the world - Victory!

Movies

Jojo Rabbit | The best Nazi in the world

Cristina Danini

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

A row of desks in a classroom.

Books

The Topeka School describes a polarized society

Alessia Sciannamblo

Torquato Tasso's Amyntas | A tale of the woods - Daphne cneorum

Poems

Torquato Tasso’s Amyntas | A tale of the woods

Maria Cristina Parenti

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

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

Stevie Smith - Fritillary

Poems

Not Waving, But Drowning | Smith about (not) seeing the pain

Roberta Truscia

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

Two hands holding each other, one of the mother and the other of the newborn child

TV Shows

This is Us | How life is the perfect mix of sweet and sour

Valeria Usala

El Maracanazo | The most tragic after match ever - The game-winning goal

Sports

1950 El Maracanazo | The most tragic after match ever

Marco Massera

Blue columbine- Ellen Bass

Poems

Ode to Invisibility | Ellen Bass and the torment of beauty

Sofia Fiorini

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

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

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

Song to a Seagull | The making of Joni Mitchell - Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark tour

Music

Song to a Seagull | The Making of Joni Mitchell

Flavia Di Mauro

Alex Garland Devs

TV Shows

Devs | Alex Garland’s outlook on godlike tech companies

Giovanni Di Rienzo

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

TV Shows

Normal People | Diverting the viewer’s expectations

Valeria Usala

The rural motel of a small city called Schitt

TV Shows

Schitt’s Creek | Not a regular family

Federica Gandolfo

A Feast of Ice and Fire | How an epic saga tastes - A homemade apple pie

Books

A Feast of Ice and Fire | How an epic saga tastes

Cristina Danini

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

Friends | Suspension of disbelief at the Central Perk

TV Shows

Friends | Suspension of disbelief at Central Perk

Letizia Bastonero

The New City, Antonio Sant'Elia, 1914.

Art

La Città Futurista | Futurama and Futurism

Annamaria Russo

Intertwined hands of family members

TV Shows

Go Ahead | Family is not about blood relations

Ying Hong

A melted ice-cream in a street.

Books

Tiffany McDaniel’s The summer that melted everything

Alessia Sciannamblo

Photo of Angela Davis in an abandoned railway station

Movies

13th |A lineage of racial oppression across 150 years

Skye Kuppig

Desperate Housewives - San Francisco's terraced houses

TV Shows

Mistery and domestic struggles in Desperate Housewives

Jordi Ferrer Torres

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

Books

The Road explores climate crisis and alienation

Alessia Sciannamblo

A rolling egg from the web site

Contemporary Art

Eggalone .com plays with digital space perception

Christine Bax

Film and projectors in an archive

TV Shows

The Man in the High Castle | “What have might been”

Sara Erriu

Bombay Rose's protagonist Kamala spins against a pink backdrop

Movies

Bombay Rose has a unique visual animation style

Skye Kuppig

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

Emilija Škarnulytė-Aldnona

Contemporary Art

Aldona | History, memories and rebirth

Veronica Schirru

Passiflore Ailee - Cavalli

Poems

The Keeper by Patrizia Cavalli | Pleasure has no doors

Sofia Fiorini

John Donne's Batter my heart | Gentiana Acaulis

Poems

Batter my heart | John Donne’s sacred poetry

Maria Cristina Parenti

Isle of the Dead | Floating inside the inner world - Arnold Böcklin - Die Toteninsel III

Art

Isle of the Dead | Floating inside the inner world

Valentina Manganaro

Gary Oldman as Herman Mankiewicz in Mank

Movies

Mank | The Impression of a Man’s Life

Skye Kuppig

Creuza de Mä | Fabrizio De André’s Sea Changing Masterpiece - Old fishing net in the fishing port of Trapani, in Sicily.

Music

Creuza de Mä | Fabrizio De André’s Sea Changing Milestone

Flavia Di Mauro

The Man Standing Next Still from the Movie by Woo Min HO

Movies

The Man Standing Next | Shakespearean Tragedy in 70s Korea

Skye Kuppig

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

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

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

TV Shows

Queen Sugar is a portrayal of oppression

Valeria Usala

Movies

Minimalism and poetry in Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad

Skye Kuppig

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

Portal

Video Games

Portal | Rethinking the FPS

Jordi Ferrer Torres

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

Camille Henrot Grosse Fatigue

Contemporary Art

Grosse fatigue | The Inexhaustible nature of knowledge

Veronica Schirru

Emmanuelle Riva in Amour by Michael Haneke

Movies

Amour | An experience

Giorgio Reclama

Momo | The importance of taking time

Movies

Momo | The importance of taking time

Cristina Danini

A village

TV Shows

The Good Place could be a better place

Leonardo Vitali

The Chapel of the Holy Shroud - Internal dome view

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

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

Movies

Selfie | Meaning (and connection) cravings

Skye Kuppig

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, two superheroes facing each other

TV Shows

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier | What does it mean to be American

Giulia Orati

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

Grand Budapest Hotel | A romantic adventure in a fairy tale world - Monsieur Gustave H., Agatha and Zero

Movies

Grand Budapest Hotel | A romantic adventure in a fairy tale world

Cristina Danini

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

TV Shows

The Morning Show | A story about power

Valeria Usala

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

The Burnout Society | Han against freedom

Books

The Burnout Society | Han against freedom

Francesco Merlino

Clichés & the City with Emily in Paris - A view of Paris from a rooftop in daytime

TV Shows

Clichés & the City with Emily in Paris

Letizia Bastonero

Sense8

TV Shows

Sense8 | A celebration of human connectedness

Andrea Donini

Underworld - New York picture in black and white

Books

Underworld | A dual conception of history

Alessia Sciannamblo

BTS's BE album | An honest message of perseverance - Sunrise in Seul

Music

BTS’s BE album | An honest message of perseverance

Isabella Cagna

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

At Newport 1960 - An old photos

Music

At Newport 1960 is a blues fresco impossible to resist

Jacopo Soru

Stefaneschi Triptych - The Retro Side

Art

The Stefaneschi Triptych gathers two different stories

Valentina Manganaro

Ernest Hemingway writing at his campsite in Kenya in 1953

Books

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

Alessia Sciannamblo

Will & Grace

TV Shows

Will & Grace | Breaking taboos and making TV history

Andrea Donini

People on the sidewalk

TV Shows

Freaks and Geeks | A genuine portrait of adolescence

Federica Gandolfo

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

Pontic Rhododendron - Beckett

Poems

Samuel Beckett’s Cascando | The agony of love

Maria Cristina Parenti

A Dublin's Corner by night.

Books

Normal People | Relations rarely concern the two lovers only

Alessia Sciannamblo

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

Books

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Beauty unfold

Nadia Corvino

Two protagonists from the film Parasite

Movies

Parasite | Defying definition and labels

Skye Kuppig

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