Tokyo: a bridge between tradition and modernity, by Carla Scarano D’Antonio.

Compared to Kyoto, Tokyo is bigger, busier and cosmopolitan. My friend Ornella and I had plenty of time by ourselves as my daughter was busy with her course at the Bunka Gakuen University where she is attending a Master in Fashion and Design.

Kyoto: the heart of Japanese tradition, by Carla Scarano D’Antonio.

Kyoto was a revelation. I started to get a taste of Japan, its understated, silent and impeccable organisation and the ancestral and modern quality of Japanese culture.

Dorothea Tanning, Tate Modern. Review by Carla Scarano.

Surrealism was the driving force that motivated Dorothea Tanning’s career from the 1930s until her death in New York in 2012. It offered her an alternative world that she explored going beyond everyday reality.

London Grip Poetry Review – William Bedford

Carla Scarano considers a collection of ekphrastic poetry by William Bedford

London Grip Poetry Review – Fiona Benson

Carla Scarano feels the power with which Fiona Benson’s poetry tackles dark themes

Women body and image, between symbol and revolution. Review by Carla Scarano.

The ideal venue of the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in via Francesco Crispi in Rome displays a vast range of pictures and sculptures from the Capitoline collections retracing the interpretation and development of the female form and her artistic personality from the end of the nineteenth century until today.

The Revisited Myth: archaic masks of Basilicata. Review by Carla Scarano.

The mesmerising Casina delle Civette (House of the Owls) hosts an intriguing exhibition of masks by Nicola Toce inspired by the Carnival traditions of Basilicata, a region in Southern Italy.