State of the Art (SOTA) is a cultural consultant to companies and organizations.SOTA combines creative individual talents and know-how of strategic consulting, communication and culture to develop conception, creation, production and or communication of corporate cultural projects.

  • culture is GOOD PR

    The inventor of dynamite did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence, so Alfred Nobel changed his will and the Nobel Prizes were born.

  • culture is HISTORY

    The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.

  • culture is TRADITION

    The Imperial Throne of Japan has been occupied by the same family for the last thirteen hundred years.

  • culture is KNOWLEDGE

    In 1961, Matisse's Le Bateau (The Boat) was hung upside down for two months in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and an estimated 116,000 visitors that walked past it did not notice it.

  • culture is OPPORTUNITY

    The world's most valued painter, Vincent van Gogh, sold only one painting in his life, to his brother, who owned an art gallery. The title of the painting was "Red Vineyard at Arles."

  • culture is PRESENTATION

    Mozart's middle name was not Amadeus. His full name was Johann Chrysostom Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. He called himself Wolfgang Amade (not Amadeus) or Wolfgang Gottlieb.

  • culture is EXERCISE

    A male dancer lifts more than 1-1/2 tons worth of ballerinas during a performance.

  • culture is FOOD

    There are 450 type of cheese in the world, 250 come from France.

  • culture is ORIGINALITY

    In 1939, Ernest Vincent Wright wrote the novel Gadsby, It Had 50.110 word and none of those words contained the letter "e."

  • culture is COMMUNICATION

    Americans send an estimated 900 million Valentine's Day cards each year.

  • culture is SPORTS

    India abandoned the 1950 Soccer World Cup because their players were not allowed to play barefooted.

  • culture is GLOBAL AND LOCAL

    The word "taxi" is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, and Portuguese.

  • culture is FAMILY

    The most common surname in the world is Li, and about 87 million people have it.