Out of professional habit, I often find myself analyzing phenomena that gradually attract my attention from an opposite point of view. And it is because of this habit, not because of a snobbish temptation to go against the trend, that I have often asked myself what the other side of the (...)

In Victorian Boston, at the end of XIXth century, a palace was built according to the canons of Venetian Renaissance architecture, to the specifications of a passionate collector, Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924). In the stillness of a park, Isabella conceived Fenway Court , a home to (...)

Does the "diaspora" of a culture necessarily mean it will be impoverished, or will it acquire a greater role and influence? At emotive level this question brings to mind two great diasporas. Firstly, the Jewish diaspora scattering the children of Israel throughout the world, often to be (...)