FERRARI FOR THE MASSES
The Italo is Italy’s response to France’s TGV and Germany’s ICE. The nation’s first privatized high-speed train is designed by Ferrari. The dark Ferrari-red casing and stylish, comfortable interiors that seats 450 passagers outshines the TGV and speeds from Rome to Naples in an hour or to Milan in three. The Italo line owned by Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori (NTV), which is led by a group of Italian businessmen including Luca di Montezemolo (the head of Ferrari) and Diego Della Valle, the head of luxury shoemaker Tod’s. Plus France’s national rail company SNCF owns a 20-percent stake in NTV. According to the AFP, the Italo offers three different coach classes and […]
炎のアート
In the Italian city of Naples, the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum has launched a protest, Art War, against the Italian governments’ austerity cuts by burning works of art from around the world. The Art War began on April 17 and reportedly will continue until the cuts are revoked — three pieces a week. French artist Severine Bourguignon was the painter of the first piece set ablaze. She is in full agreement with the stance of the museum and its director Antonio Manfredi. “The survival of the museum is such an important cause that it justifies the despicable, and painful, act of destroying a work of art,” she told the BBC. […]