A NEW AIR, A GOOD AIR, IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Italiano, qui It's inevitable to ask ourselves what we're feeling in these days of excitement, due to all the new things happening in the States. I'll answer for myself: an old man (or whatever you prefer to call a seventy-six-year-old) who in the 1970s of the last millennium had in his room the poster for the historic Woodstock music festival in 1969 ; and the cassettes of The Allman Brothers Band, at Fillmore East, in 1971 , and of the Summer Jam at Watkins Glen in 1973 . All these events in the New York area, which we called The Big Apple . When I met (I think it was in 1975), in Rome, two Californian girls who had participated at the California Jam at the Ontario Motor Speedway in 1974. I also remember when, at the end of 1971, I collaborated ( for a fraction of a cent ) in collecting material for Italy: The New Domestic Landscape , one of the most famous exhibitions in the history of MoMA, curated by Emilio Ambasz; in a corner of the MoMA gardens, I provided, so...