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Action Painting in a Lombard farmhouse
2021 concluded, for Galactus Translations, with the translation of a a number of essays on the painter William Congdon (1912-1998). This project has enabled us to deepen our awareness of an American artist who made Italy his second home. We…
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The Milanese “bancarelle”
If you are a booklover, one of your first culture shocks on transferring to Milan from the UK, as I did more decades ago than I like to count, is discovering that the cosy second hand bookstore you used to find in any medium-sized British town…