Art, philosophy and culture in D’Agostino’s magazine

The weekly appointment with culture is back, Dago in the Sky is back. Five episodes of the fourth season will be broadcast on Sky Arte on Tuesday 18 June, as always by Roberto D’Agostino: preserving their original communicative identity, they ask the public intriguing questions in a modern and captivating language. Through interviews with experts, philosophers and critics, each episode transforms the television medium into a modern digital dissemination tool, attentive to the evolution of contemporary society to reread the major current issues with new eyes. The opening episode, broadcast at 9.15pm, it’s called Smartphone, Home. It investigates the cultural revolution of portable devices, which allow us to have the world in our pockets, leading us into a world where we are always connected to each other. In the second episode, broadcast at 10.00 pm, Roberto D’Agostino discusses The Regime of art. He talks with journalists, historians and art critics about the closeness between art and fascism throughout the twenty-year period, in an analysis that raises many ethical reflections that are still fully valid today. The episode aired at 10.45pm, during which the philosophical theme of identity and the existence of others, different from oneself, is explored. Under the spotlight are contemporary works of art, analyzed through the timely interventions of the writer and art critic Francesca Alfano Miglietti, the artist Luigi Ontani and the screenwriter Gianni Romoli. The fourth episode of the evening is When art ago for commercial, broadcast at 11.30pm. This time the role of art in modern consumer society ends up at the center of the reflections, passing through an interesting comparison with what commissions for art in the past have always represented. The last episode, broadcast at 00.10, starts It is titled The Forbidden Image and explores the eternal contrast between adoration and fear of images, a particularly hot topic in our “image society”. Roberto De Agostino talks about it with important exponents of the Italian cultural world, such as the writer Giordano Bruno Guerri, the philosopher Maria Bettetini and the journalist Luigi Mascheroni.