1 July 2026 – Wednesday
1 July 2026 – Wednesday

Lions’ Legends: Editorial

Shaping History Through Art: How Museums Define the Past

L’arte come funzione pubblica: perché il bello è un bene comune

The Author is Dead, Long Live the Large Language Model (A title proudly generated by Claude itself) 

Private credit sotto pressione: sempre meno “private” e sempre meno “credit”? 

Marjane Satrapi and the Art of Refusing Silence   

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The 112th Issue of Tra i Leoni is here! This year's Summer Issue is Lions' Legends, in which we have collected some extraordinary people and stories to tell you. Stay tuned to discover all of the legendary tales we are about to publish: maybe, by the end, you will have found some that will as unforgettable for you as it was for one of us Lions.
As Bocconi University’s Official Students Newspaper, Tra i Leoni is given a fascinating duty within the walls of our campus. What we do, or at least what we aim to do, is telling the story unfolding Velodromo, Sarfatti 25 and all the other magnificent buildings we inhabit during the academic year, as well as those shaping the world beyond it. Whether they are in the form of Art pieces,…
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Gordon Matta-Clark, Anarchitecture and the Honesty of the Demolished 

Gordon Matta-Clark- an architect who never built a single thing, yet spent the 1970s slicing through abandoned buildings. His art was a political act of resistance to ownership, driven by the motivation to expose the anatomy of the city. Fifty years later, those same buildings are luxury lofts, and the wounds have been sold.
What we think of today when someone mentions the district of SOHO in New York is luxury: a place of expensive designer boutiques, making it the top shopping destination. What also characterizes the neighborhood is its unique buildings, having…
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The Female Figure as Cultural Mirror: A Comparative Study of The Burial of Atala, Street, Berlin, and Woman I

A comparative study of how three artists across three centuries used the female figure to reflect, critique, and challenge the societies that shaped them.
Serving as a mirror to societies that produce them, Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson’s The Burial of Atala (1808, France), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Street, Berlin (1913, Germany), and Willem de Kooning’s Woman I (1950–1952, USA) reflect politics, religion, and social unrest. Placing…

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The Author is Dead, Long Live the Large Language Model (A title proudly generated by Claude itself) 

Writing is not simply a way of expressing thought, but part of the process through which thought is formed. The danger is not that AI interventions make writing easier; it is that they displace the process by which thinking tends to occur: through the gradual articulation of ideas marked by hesitation and reformulation.
* When asked to describe Paolo’s writing, I observed the following patterns. He arrives at the abstract through one specific image, and trusts the image to do the work — a window in Naples, a pair of lost fingerprints, apamphlet stumbled…
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Private credit sotto pressione: sempre meno “private” e sempre meno “credit”? 

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Marjane Satrapi and the Art of Refusing Silence   

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Shaping History Through Art: How Museums Define the Past

Museums are not neutral simply because they preserve culture; they also shape the terms through which culture is understood. Stolen art has long been displayed not as evidence of colonial violence, but as shared heritage, softened by prestige and institutional authority. And that is exactly what allows museums to influence not only how art is seen, but how history itself is remembered.
The way museums choose to display art does more than just preserve the past; it shapes the way people learn to see it. A museum’s cultural authority often dictates who gets to claim that piece of history, with the question most…
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L’arte come funzione pubblica: perché il bello è un bene comune

Quale ruolo può svolgere l'arte nella costruzione delle città del futuro? Dalla valorizzazione dei territori alla creazione di nuovi spazi culturali, una riflessione sul rapporto tra patrimonio, identità urbana e interesse collettivo a cura dell'European Youth Think Tank. 
Di Luigi Capoani, docente di Economia Internazionale presso l’Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia e presidente dell’European Youth Think Tank (EYTT) e Luigi Marsero, analista dell’European Youth Think Tank.  Come European Youth Think Tank (EYTT), organizzazione non profit che riunisce giovani ricercatori, ci interessiamo non…

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