R. J. Palacio’s Wonder offers an engaging look at the challenges a child with facial deformities encounters when attending school for the first time. Told from multiple perspectives, the novel emphasizes kindness, acceptance of differences and the common anxieties associated with fitting into a social group. Narrative fiction has been shown to p…[Read more]

Emphasizing the peculiar, the perverse, the clandestine and the scandalous, this volume opens up a critical discourse on sexuality and visual culture in early modern Italy. Contributors consider not just painted (conventional) representations of sexual activities and eroticized bodies, but also images from print media, drawings, sculpted objects…[Read more]

Questo volume propone un discorso critico sulla sessualità e sulla cultura visiva dell’Italia rinascimentale. I saggi raccolti tentano di fare luce su una serie di zone d’ombra, dando spazio a tutte quelle pratiche o preferenze considerate in genere come alternative o anomalie, e a un’ampia varietà di scenari “scandalosi”. Particolare attenzione…[Read more]

Funded with support from the European Commission | Education and Culture DG, The RE-TOOLING RESIDENCIES project is addressed to both arts communities and art institutions looking to create arts residency centres in Eastern Europe and to cooperate with existing centres of this kind.
The project aims to foster cooperation and mutual support between…[Read more]

Funded with support from the European Commission | Education and Culture DG, The RE-TOOLING RESIDENCIES project is addressed to both arts communities and art institutions looking to create arts residency centres in Eastern Europe and to cooperate with existing centres of this kind.
The project aims to foster cooperation and mutual support between…[Read more]

Funded with support from the European Commission | Education and Culture DG, The RE-TOOLING RESIDENCIES project is addressed to both arts communities and art institutions looking to create arts residency centres in Eastern Europe and to cooperate with existing centres of this kind.
The project aims to foster cooperation and mutual support between…[Read more]

Considerations on how VestAndPage facilitate a workshop on Performance art.

Text published in: “How We Teach Performance Art: University Courses and Workshop Syllabus”, Edited by Valentin Torrens. Outskirts Press, July 2014.

The book offers 42 different approaches to transmit the generative source of creativity in live action by…[Read more]

The rush of activity among London’s auction houses in the first few weeks of summer has long been a familiar occurrence that persists even today. However, this intense seasonal concentration of sales was not always so. This paper draws on quantitative methods to explore the gradual emergence of a tightly scheduled auction season in London at the t…[Read more]