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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

Big Little Lies protagonists at the police department

TV Shows

Big Little Lies | What lies beneath the surface

Valeria Usala

Uncle Boonmee

Movies

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Skye Kuppig

Flights | Olga Tokarczuck's theory of knowledge - Life is traveling

Books

Flights | Olga Tokarczuck’s theory of knowledge

Andrea Migliorini

The Watchmen cast - A woman all dressed in black, a man all dressed in red and three police officers are standing inside a park

TV Shows

Watchmen | A subversion of the superhero

Valeria Usala

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

1960 European Nations' Cup | When politics defeated football

Sports

1960 European Nations’ Cup | When politics defeated football

Matilde Castagnone

Love in the Time of Cholera- A bench

Books

Love in the Time of Cholera marks the peak of the author’s ascendancy

Carmen De Nisi

Emmanuelle Riva in Amour by Michael Haneke

Movies

Amour | An experience

Giorgio Reclama

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

Muses and women celebration | Polyhymnia - A colors dance

Music

Polyhymnia | Muses and women celebration

Hypercritic Editorial Staff

The Undoing is not only a murder story - a picture from the series

TV Shows

The Undoing is not only a murder story

Andrea Donini

Sharp Objects - A deep and dark humanity

TV Shows

Sharp Objects | A deep and dark humanity

Luisa Zhou

Love & Ashes - a photo of Messanges, France

Music

Love & Ashes | Blood and Sun’s American neofolk

Jacopo Soru

Image of the protagonists of House of Cards saluting the flag

TV Shows

House of Cards offers a dark portrait of America

Valeria Usala

Books

The Road explores climate crisis and alienation

Alessia Sciannamblo

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

Movies

Cat In The Wall | A critical look at the loss of tolerance

Skye Kuppig

A scene from Captain Fantastic

Movies

Captain Fantastic | Can a family thrive away from society?

Nadia Corvino

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

Books

Sessanta racconti | Dino Buzzati’s fantastic reality

Giulia Viganò

The Big Brother watching

Books

1984 | Big Brother is watching you

Simone Pietro Alteri

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

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

One Hundred Years of Solitude - A palm

Books

One Hundred Years of Solitude | History in a family saga

Carmen De Nisi

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

Begonia

Poems

I Write to Vent the Inward Pain in My Heart

Maria Cristina Parenti

Film still from 1944 Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman

Movies

Gaslight | When the personal becomes political

Skye Kuppig

Movies

The Lighthouse portrays the struggle of humanity

Skye Kuppig

Agata Trzebuchowska in Ida by Paweł Pawlikowski

Movies

Ida | A journey to discover one’s own identity

Giorgio Reclama

A melted ice-cream in a street.

Books

Tiffany McDaniel’s The summer that melted everything

Alessia Sciannamblo

The House of the Spirits | From a letter to the magical feminism

Books

The House of the Spirits | From a letter to Magical feminism

Carmen De Nisi

Stock photo of glasses on a bar

Contemporary Art

Rose Garden shows the symbols of the American rural culture

Christine Bax

Through examples taken from everyday life, The Good and Bad Government produces an effective declaration of political and didactic intent.

Art

The Allegory of Good and Bad Government has a didactic aim

Valentina Manganaro

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

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

Rayuela, playing with the novel. A girl playing hopscotch

Books

Rayuela | Playing with the novel

Alessia Sciannamblo

Sitting cows in the grass.

Music

Atom Heart Mother is Pink Floyd’s weirdest experiment

Jacopo Soru

Gary Oldman as Herman Mankiewicz in Mank

Movies

Mank | The Impression of a Man’s Life

Skye Kuppig

Pesaro Altarpiece

Art

The Pesaro Altarpiece and the painting within a painting

Valentina Manganaro

tennis racket

Books

Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace’s maximalist novel

Andrea Migliorini

Intertwined hands of family members

TV Shows

Go Ahead | Family is not about blood relations

Ying Hong

Sound of Metal | A quest for stillness - A frame from the movie

Movies

Sound of Metal | A quest for stillness

Nadia Corvino

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

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

Books

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Beauty unfold

Nadia Corvino

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

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

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

Poems

We’ll die apart | Love between temporality and eternity

Sofia Fiorini

Two girls in Guatemala City, in a scene from Gunpowder Heart

Movies

Gunpowder Heart | Revenge drama in Guatemala City

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

Offred and the Handmaids, in a white bonnet and a red cloak, are gathered in the open under a stage, where the Aunts complete the training

TV Shows

The Handmaid’s Tale | It’s all much more than fiction

Valeria Usala

The view of the Red Creek Valley

Video Games

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter | Stories of a missing child

Samuele Morsia

Golden Lion winner Faust, by the German artist Anne Imhof, was the main event of the 57th Venice Biennale, in 2017. It was a 5-hours-long performance.

Contemporary Art

The spontaneous discipline of Anne Imhof’s Faust

Christine Bax

Underworld - New York picture in black and white

Books

Underworld | A dual conception of history

Alessia Sciannamblo

The Stockholm library

Books

Luis Borges’ Fictions is a game of chance

Alessia Sciannamblo

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

Art

The Chamber of the Abbess | The impossible art reproduction

Valentina Manganaro

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

Charles IV of Spain and His Family, Francisco Goya's painting

Art

Charles IV of Spain and His Family hides a rulers caricature

Valentina Manganaro

Joanna Piotrowska Self-defence How to translate through gesture

Contemporary Art

Self-defence | How to translate through gesture

Veronica Schirru

At Newport 1960 - An old photos

Music

At Newport 1960 is a blues fresco impossible to resist

Jacopo Soru

Madonna of the Harpies, by Andrea del Sarto, Uffizi, Florence

Art

Madonna of the Harpies | Between divinity and nature

Valentina Manganaro

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

TV Shows

Normal People | Diverting the viewer’s expectations

Valeria Usala

A red neon heart.

Books

Camere Separate | The search for a balanced existence

Alessia Sciannamblo

The Leftovers - Sheriff Car during a parade

TV Shows

The Leftovers | A symphony of grief

Federica Gandolfo

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

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

Sandman Stories

Comics

The importance of stories in The Sandman

Gabriele Siciliano

Otto Dix's Metropolis shows the contrast between poverty and social difficulties after WWI, with the excesses and energy of the metropolitan nightlife.

Art

Otto Dix’s Metropolis displays social and existential crisis

Valentina Manganaro

Circulus at Progeny 3, Leamington Spa

Music

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

Jacopo Soru

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

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

Movies

The Man Standing Next | Shakespearean Tragedy in 70s Korea

Skye Kuppig

Locke

Movies

Locke | The hero’s journey at the wheel

Andrea Donini

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

Pride and Prejudice -

Books

Pride and Prejudice | Where femininity builds masculinity

Matilde Castagnone

Westworld charachters: Dolores and Maeve, Season 3 - human-like androids

TV Shows

Westworld | Free will is not free

Jordi Ferrer Torres

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

TV Shows

Queen Sugar is a portrayal of oppression

Valeria Usala

Bill Clinton in 1993

Movies

The War Room | A testimony of Direct Cinema’s last days

Skye Kuppig

Esty is getting shaved by a woman after her marriage

TV Shows

Unorthodox | Finding one own’s voice

Valeria Usala

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

The Tête à Tête - The William Hogarth's artwork

Art

The Tête à Tête time in a Marriage A-la-Mode

Valentina Manganaro

Contemporary Art

Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail to the Dark Lioness

Christine Bax

A new renaissance in Atlanta

TV Shows

A new renaissance in Atlanta

Leonardo Vitali

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

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

A scene in When they see us: A teenager, a woman and a crowd of protesting people in the daylight

TV Shows

When They See Us | The long way towards equality

Valeria Usala

Video Games

Gris | A new way of overcoming grief

Antonella Massaro

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

A row of desks in a classroom.

Books

The Topeka School describes a polarized society

Alessia Sciannamblo

The Chapel of the Holy Shroud - Internal dome view

Art

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

Valentina Manganaro

A man is standing in front of a washing machine which contains banknotes

TV Shows

Breaking Bad | The downward spiral of an ordinary man

Valeria Usala

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

Poems

Torquato Tasso’s Amyntas | A tale of the woods

Maria Cristina Parenti

John Donne's Batter my heart | Gentiana Acaulis

Poems

Batter my heart | John Donne’s sacred poetry

Maria Cristina Parenti

Amy Adams in Arrival

Movies

Arrival | A close encounter of the fifth kind

Giorgio Reclama

Frances McDormand in the film NOMADLAND.

Movies

Nomadland | See You Down the Road

Skye Kuppig

Books

Fahrenheit 451 transcends the boundaries of science fiction

Alessia Sciannamblo

Painting of the raising of Lazarus by Caravaggio

Art

The Raising of Lazarus shows Caravaggio’s innovations

Valentina Manganaro

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

Arash Marandi in A girl walks home alone at night

Movies

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a love story

Skye Kuppig

Emilija Škarnulytė-Aldnona

Contemporary Art

Aldona | History, memories and rebirth

Veronica Schirru

A scene from the movie Manchester By The Sea

Movies

Manchester by the Sea | An emotional study on grief

Iside Sparagio

Vita, Morte e Miracoli di Bonfiglio Liborio - A madman

Books

Vita, Morte e Miracoli di Bonfiglio Liborio

Alessia Sciannamblo

The Smog Free Ring is part of a project by the artist Daan Roosegaarde, who mixes design, science, and architecture in his creations.

Contemporary Art

Roosegaarde’s Smog Free Ring turns pollution into diamonds

Christine Bax

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

Dark is an exception - Jonas from the present talks to Jonas from the future on a bench

TV Shows

Dark is an exception among TV shows

Valeria Usala

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

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