Last week, while picking up a delivery downstairs in my apartment complex, I just got on my New Day Starry Sky bike when a ...

As genres go, Italian still-life painting isn’t a ghost town, exactly, but it evokes more than its share of dust and tumbleweeds. It’s just a fact that French fruit bowls and Dutch lemon peels get a ...

Mauro Morandi, who has died aged 85, stumbled upon the picturesque Mediterranean island of Budelli, which lies between Corsica and Sardinia in Italy’s Maddalena archipelago, in 1989 after his ...

“I knew the man before the artist,” the composer, Beethoven scholar and collector Luigi Magnani wrote of Giorgio Morandi, in ...

When you see a photo of Giorgio Morandi, you see a man who was always looking. Round, black glasses below a furrowed brow (or resting just above it); deep smile lines, the echo of a nose scrunched in ...

A man who made an art of living off the grid on a deserted Mediterranean island for more than 30 years has died at the age of 85, just three years after he returned to civilization. Mauro Morandi was ...

Celebrating 60 years since Giorgio Morandi’s (1890–1964) death, the Galleria Mattia De Luca has brought to New York a stunning exhibition of 60 works by the Italian painter and printmaker.

He lived for three decades on a small island off the coast of Sardinia, inspiring international fascination with his real-life adventure story. Mauro Morandi, an Italian gym teacher who abandoned the ...

Morning traffic was flowing across the Morandi Bridge—until the road beneath them disappeared. What followed was one of Europe’s deadliest modern infrastructure failures FBI raids former national ...

He was the sole resident of Budelli, an undeveloped sliver of paradise off the northern coast of Sardinia. He embraced the solitude, until he was evicted. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome ...