Journey to the Chianti

Spent Sunday with Mado Flynn and Memole at the Handmade Street Market in downtown San Casciano in Val di Pesa, Metropolitan City of Florence.

Haute Couture in a Garden

Monica and Sabrina’s creative display of Mado Flynn’s mini scented clothes, inspired by iconic dresses from the history of cinema. Have a look at La Bottega dei Fiori di Via Pisana, Via Pisana 236R, 50143 Florence, Italy.

“Here like leaves / on autumn trees”

A thought for today, while wandering around Sesto Fiorentino, Metropolitan City of Florence, Italy — to all who make art either their life or their salvation.

Robinson Crusoe

An installation by the visual artist Jean-Marie Appriou, titled Vessel of Time, on display at the fourth edition of Forever is Now international art exhibition at Giza necropolis in Giza, Egypt. Photo: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters.

Cloudy Day Sunny Day

It’s the rainy season, but it’s a beautiful sunny day on Sunday, wandering in and around the Medici Villa of Poggio a Caiano and the street art market where Mado Flynn is an exhibitor.

Power of Gardens

Spent Sunday wandering around the stalls of the Wellness Festival at Anconella Park in Florence, Italy, where Mado Flynn featured her art in the exhibit of the A.M.A. (Friends of Animal World) Cat Pound. One of the highlights of the programme was the lecture given by philosopher Luigi Lombardi Vallauri, an acknowledged authority in animal law and animal rights. If then one needed signs, posters, labels, here they were: give peace a chance and say no to NATO.

A Jolly Summer

On a sunny Sunday in June, in and around the walls of Poggio a Caiano, province of Prato, Tuscany, Italy, along with Mado Flynn in a street art market.

Amber and the Moonstone

Set your alarm clock if you’d like to take a Sunday stroll through Poggio a Caiano, province of Prato, Tuscany, Italy, and do not miss the chance to have a look at Mado Fynn’s stall in the street art market in Piazza Risorgimento on Sunday, June 16, 2024, from 9 A.M. to 7 P.M.

As Ambra flees Ombrone, Lorenzo de’ Medici says in his poem Ambra, stanza 41, her limbs changed (“mutar le membra”) and, as she turned to stone, she appeared as a “sketched figure unfinished in hard stone” (“come suol figura / bozzata e non finita in pietra dura”). Photo: Comune di Poggio a Caiano.

The Queen of the Night

Spending Sunday with Mado Flynn in the cloister of the Church of Santa Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi in Florence, I just leave to your imagination what the soundtrack music would be.

Magic in the Cloister

On Sunday, June 9, 2024, (and on Sunday only), from 10 A.M. to 7.30 P.M., Mado Flynn will exhibit her latest creations at the Market in Borgo Pinti, to be taking place in the cloister of the Church of Santa Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi, Borgo Pinti 58 (at the corner with Via della Colonna), Florence, Italy. The entry is free.

Phoenix Ashes

A view shows Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Venus of the Rags which has been reconstructed after the original artwork was destroyed in an arson attack, in Piazza Municipio, Naples, Italy. Photo: Yara Nardi/Reuters.

Hiding in Plain Sight

刘勃麟 (Liú Bólín), Hiding in Florence, Sala di Venere, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy, 2022. Courtesy of 刘勃麟 (Liú Bólín).

Shapes and Geometries

Antonio Manzi, Ballerina, 2008. A bronze sculpture installed at Lastra a Signa, Metropolitan City of Florence, Italy.

The Last Sunday of Summer

Today, on the last Sunday of summer, Mado Flynn displayed her art the handicraft street market in downtown Fiesole, Metropolitan City of Florence, Italy.