A week or so ago I was invited to an art and product launch that I was really looking forward to, mostly because of the name behind it - Mark Mallia. I've been following Mallia's work for years now and his style has always struck a chord with me, much like his no-holds-barred personality. Brazen, with decidedly dark undertones, I've yet to see a work of his that doesn't make … [Read more...] about Corvo Bianco: Mark Mallia teams up with Etienne Farrell to create ‘art to use’
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Josephine’s Coffee at Corinthia Palace: Review
Photos: Brian Grech Specialty coffee and plant-based food at Josephine's Corinthia make for a very moreish concept. Josephine's Coffee, the latest food concept to open at the Corinthia Palace Hotel in Attard, is a project I've had my eye on for quite a while. Ever since they first teased us with their Instagram page, in fact. Let's be honest, places that serve genuine … [Read more...] about Josephine’s Coffee at Corinthia Palace: Review
No Gravity Theatre’s Inferno
https://youtu.be/7TxvC_sYyxc One of this year’s Three Palaces Online Festival surprises, a wonderfully mesmerizing interpretation of Dante’s circles of Hell. As soon as I realised that No Gravity Theatre was on this year’s The Three Palaces Online Festival bill, I have been looking forward to finally view one of Emiliano Pellisari’s productions - commissioned, no … [Read more...] about No Gravity Theatre’s Inferno
Of Hell And Exile: stark reality
Immersive and multi-faceted, this Three Palaces production is a symbolic springboard for themes of displacement and identity. There is a certain poetic inevitability to setting the Akhmatova Songs by John Taverner to Of Hell And Exile, an immersive project that forms part of this year’s The Three Palaces Festival programme. Anna Akhmatova, after all, was one of a handful … [Read more...] about Of Hell And Exile: stark reality
Nel Mezzo Del Cammin
The Three Palaces Online Festival production brings together some of the leading names from Malta’s artistic scene in a glorious marriage of music, drama and dance. The use of that most iconic phrase from Dante’s opus - Nel Mezzo Del Cammin - led me to expect a superb effort from this eponymous production. As did the fact that the collaboration brings together some of the … [Read more...] about Nel Mezzo Del Cammin