President Tango confirms that the association needs to review its accounts, but says that the average of salaries and arrears is “a long way from 100,000 euros”

Thousands of poor people were evicted, pushed to the outskirts of the city. Then one day, tall cranes arrived and, in the silence of the abandoned neighbourhood, began to tear down the buildings with a series of heavy thuds. A vast cloud of dust rose from the rubble. Just like the one, fifteen years later, from bombed-out Milan 

Kierkegaard regards paradox as the true key to understanding reality, for example in the idea of eternal youth. The light of one’s youth is Ariadne’s thread, which everyone loses and rediscovers along life’s journey. The “Tre discorsi edificanti” are available in bookshops. 

Whether in their professional or family lives, on television or in real life, American female diplomats are often a breed apart

Students gathered in one square, while Aleksandar Vučić held an impromptu rally in the other. The manifestos, the faces, and the latest slogans of two diametrically opposed societies, more divided than ever.

‘Vico Magistretti’s Chairs (LetteraVentidue)’ by Luca Poncellini is the evolution of the exhibition ‘Roughly 60 Chairs in 60 Years’, hosted at the Vico Magistretti Studio Museum Foundation. Not a catalogue, not a selection, but more specifically the essence of a design approach that was an idea of movement and presence in the world

A satirical dialogue between Schlein, Conte, Renzi, Fratoianni and a comedian

There are still not enough beds for thousands of students living away from home, but universities are expanding their provision through new halls of residence, investment and scholarships. The greatest difficulties are faced by the largest universities: in addition to protests, concrete solutions are needed to make rents affordable.

Jacopo Carucci, known as Pontormo, shook up the conventions of the Renaissance with unnatural colours and unsettling figures. At the Scuderie del Quirinale, a major exhibition rediscovers the eccentric and surly painter who sought his own unique way of representing reality.

Ahead of a highly anticipated derby, the manager of one of the teams, ‘the Poirot of football’, asks an artificial intelligence programme to draw up a sort of match plan. The story of a true event

From the Capitoline she-wolf to Bernini’s elephant, from medieval dragons to cats amongst the ruins, Fabrizio Falconi recounts Rome through the creatures that inhabit its myths, art and streets. A journey through animal symbolism that reveals the city’s most ancestral and mysterious soul

Forty years of correspondence between Norberto Bobbio and Leo Valiani, now published by Biblion. The Italian Communist Party (PCI) postponing its shift towards the West, the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) reduced to a tactical ‘third-force’ stance, and a left that regards every reform as a breach of a ‘taboo’

The Canadian poet (Nobel Laureate in Literature) shows us, just as the director does, that our faltering and decadent world can at least still rely on the classics to find the words it cannot otherwise find

There may well be more authors writing by hand, but fewer writing with their feet, and they will do so the old-fashioned way – albeit more labour-intensive – because they will be writing for fun. Ideas

Cristian Mungiu’s film tells the story of a family who move to a remote Norwegian village. Its ancient, rural form of Christianity forbids technology and mandates prayer. The village is abuzz, and mechanisms are set in motion that are more reminiscent of Kafka than provincial life. From Cannes to Rome, The Dark Side of Technocracy 

From Righeira in January 1981 to Chet Baker playing at Santa Tecla with Basso and Valdambrini’s band. Seventy years of music experienced, relived and danced to beneath the stages of Milan. The ‘Dal Vivo’ exhibition at Palazzo Morando runs until 31 January 2027. Curated by Matteo Bordone and Roberto Mutti

“A tree or a small plant growing wild, in my view, is architecture in every sense of the word, capable of teaching us lessons on any subject, starting with geometry: otherwise, they would not be able to stand upright and would fail to fulfil their functions.” Interview

In an age where advertising is displayed on giant screens and smartphones, the old-fashioned paper posters of yesteryear – often small works of art in their own right – are enjoying a new lease of life as decorative features. A visit to a specialist gallery in Milan