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Beauty won’t save the world. Sorry, Mr Dostoevsky.
As we recover from one of the most intense weeks of the year, a poisonous mix of Milan Art and Design Week (Salone del Mobile) clashed with the opening of the Biennale di Venezia and its thousand collateral events and parties, I suddenly realize that beauty wont’ save the world.
Don’t get me wrong, I am a huge supporter of beauty, both literally and figuratively. Literally, as in the past years I have tried to revive the term ‘beautiful’ to describe some of the works I was standing in front of, a term long feared and hated by critics and, in …