Why Sicily Inspires Contemporary Artists
Sicily has inspired artists for centuries. Its landscapes, architecture and extraordinary layers of history have attracted painters, writers and tr...
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The village that sold its houses for a euro
You may have heard of Sambuca di Sicilia as the town that auctioned abandoned houses for one euro, the story that traveled the world. For a few yea...
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The two artists who said yes first
I am Melissa, an artist and creative from Philadelphia, and Nomad’s Art Director and Co-Curator. I came to Sicily with an art background, moved to ...
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One euro, one village, one beginning
In 2019, Nomad founder Meredith Tabbone bought a house she had never seen, in a town she had never visited, for one euro. A financial advisor in Ch...
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From a thousand year old village to your living room
A fair question we hear often: if your gallery sits in a village most people cannot find on a map, how does anyone actually buy the art? Through No...
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Mosaica: Come and See It in Person
There is a difference between seeing a work on a screen and standing in front of it. In person, a rough surface stays rough, gold leaf catches the ...
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Open Skies - Carla Sutera Sardo's Sicilian Summer
Today we open Open Skies, a solo exhibition of recent photographs by Carla Sutera Sardo. Figures dance, play, and stretch into the air, only to dis...
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On Simone Geraci’s 'Foundation'
Artist Simone Geraci’s prints presented in Foundation draw from key moments across nearly a decade of his printmaking practice. Working across etch...
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Before It Opens: A First Look at Foundation
Foundation, an Artsy Online Viewing Room dedicated to the intaglio prints of Palermo-based artist Simone Geraci, opens June 1st — and we wanted to ...
