Madeline Gressel

Sep 20, 2023 | departures.com | Madeline Gressel |Federico Ciamei |Matteo de Mayda

Italians were born to build. Building is the character of their nation, the form of their mind, the vocation and duty of their destiny, the expression of their existence, the supreme and immortal symbol of their history. — Gio Ponti, “The Italian Architectural Vocation,” 1940LOMBARDY, THE NORTHERN Italian region of which Milan is the capital, is among Italy’s lushest.

Jun 22, 2023 | departures.com | Madeline Gressel |Toby Coulson

MOST READ ARTS ON A WILD slope of land in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, stands an old wooden house, its back to the forest, its face to the sea. The house belongs to Joan Jonas, the 86-year-old American artist whose mix of performance, video, painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation shaped the aesthetic vernacular of a generation of artists. She is nearly always described as “pioneering.” Here, in the house where she has summered since 1974, she is relaxed, if hard at work.

May 3, 2023 | departures.com | Madeline Gressel

ROME IS A city that adores tradition and adheres to ritual; its residents’ eating schedule is almost as immutable as the Catholic liturgy. Breakfast is coffee and a pastry, lunch is between 1 and 3 p.m., and the aperitivo hour lasts from the end of the workday until dinner, which rarely begins before 9 p.m.This isn’t news to many of Rome’s several-million annual tourists, but what these visitors might not realize is that the city and its culinary charms stretch all the way to the sea.