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Echoes of the Siege: Painting the emotional landscape of history

Sunday, 24 August 2025, 08:05 Last update: about 11 months ago Marie Benoît

What story or emotional journey do you hope visitors will experience as they walk through this exhibition? These paintings serve as windows into a distant and turbulent past -  an era marked...

When Beauty Overwhelms: My Journey to Caravaggio 2025 Part II

Thursday, 21 August 2025, 13:39 Last update: about 12 months ago Marie Benoît

My second visit to the Caravaggio 2025 retrospective exhibition at Palazzo Barberini in Rome felt like a homecoming. Not just to enjoy the paintings but to continue to appreciate the raw emotional...

‘Tuitio Fidei’: An exhibition by Tonio Mallia

Sunday, 17 August 2025, 10:19 Last update: about 13 months ago

"Tuitio Fidei"- named after the Latin motto of the Knights of Malta, Defence of the Faith-is an exhibition of large-scale oil paintings by Tonio Mallia, on display at MUŻA's imposing Camerone...

Glutamate Receptors

Sunday, 17 August 2025, 09:34 Last update: about 13 months ago

Glutamate, often called the brain's "workhorse," is crucial for communication in the central nervous system (CNS). As the main excitatory neurotransmitter, it activates neurons, helping us learn,...

When words jump off the page

Sunday, 17 August 2025, 08:52 Last update: about 13 months ago

Poets have different relationships with poetry. How do you approach it and why is it necessary in your life? For me, poetry offers a way to come to stillness, to look at the world around me with...

Where stories bloom: Charlene’s art of place and memory

Sunday, 17 August 2025, 08:35 Last update: about 13 months ago

You were recently appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Malta. You are well known for your curatorial work, especially at The Phoenicia Malta. Is...

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