Alternate Score and Podium

Not all heroes wear capes.

The Walls Have Eyes

Walking unmindfully around the suburbs.

The Measure of a Man

Street artist Jorit’s mural of Nelson Mandela on a building in Florence, Italy, in honour of the first President of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. As he once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world”.

Frankenstein Underground

A punk translation of Leopardi’s “Times of trouble demand not tears but counsel”.

Untranslatable

An encounter along what’s left of a train track.

Wild ’n’ Wacky

A rap translation of Dante’s “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here”.

Eyes of the City

Graffiti and other artwork at an improvised street art gallery in Dircksenstraße in Berlin, Germany. Located on the walls of a commuter train viaduct, the site has attracted street artists for decades. Photo: John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images.

High Times in Hard Times

Volunteer artists set up an alternative podium for the medal ceremony.

The Immeasurable Lightness of Being

A meter box door decorated with a graffiti portrait in Via dei Conti at Florence, Italy.

The In Between

To quote Dylan, “They say ev’rything can be replaced / Yet ev’ry distance is not near”.

After All

To quote Rohinton Mistry, “In the end, it’s all a question of balance”.

Paper Moon

To quote Stephen Spender, “History is the ship carrying living memories to the future”.

In the Arms of Morpheus

“And foundering is sweet in such a sea”, as Giacomo Leopardi put it in verses.

Ophelia

Maybe it was just her temporarily thinking about something else.