Art

Art

14 private art collections you should visit

From the social commitment of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys to the former Berlin bunker of the Boros couple, from the hidden collections of Lee Kun-Hee to the more controversial stories, thousands of artworks belong to private holdings.

Democracy

In the mid-1700s, the English painter Hogarth made a series of works against the government. Today, we take democracy for granted, but this is not always the case. It is enough to see what happens in Russia, with Putin’s reelection. 

Those who left us in 2020

Many personalities who helped building and livening up the post-war cultural world have passed away in this 2020. For each of them, we suggest a project, a book, an exhibition, a website, to transfer a small part of the enormous cultural legacy they left us.

Andrés Jaque

We don’t inhabit environments, we are the environment

We interviewed the Chief Curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, entitled “Bodies of Water” who describes Biennale’s as reality-sensing-devices.

Guido Cagnacci

On the anniversary of his birth, we commemorate one of the most erotic painters in art history, Guido Cagnacci. From his religious works to his profane ones, the Baroque master breaks the rules of classical iconography. 

The Ides of March

On March 15th, 44 B.C., Julius Caesar died: his assassination was revisited in the history of art during the Neoclassical period, in the works of Vincenzo Camuccini and Jean-León Gérôme.