Anselm Kiefer’s big exhibition in Florence: a guide
The great German artist returns to Italy, to Palazzo Strozzi, one of his favorite Renaissance palaces, and presents a group of recent and past works, to reflect on the memory of humanity.
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.
The great German artist returns to Italy, to Palazzo Strozzi, one of his favorite Renaissance palaces, and presents a group of recent and past works, to reflect on the memory of humanity.
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.
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.
The American artist over the past three decades has been telling the story of who we are and who we could be, exploring the narrative possibilities of performance, film and writing. Now she is on display in Milan.
The sportswear garment, loved by artists and musicians including David Hockney, Mick Jagger and Kanye West, has turned into a design staple. Here’s how it continuously reinvents itself while retaining the charme of a classic.
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.
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.
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.
Conservator Anna Laganà leads Domus to discover a vital but little-known practice: the conservation of contemporary art, through the example of the 1973 transparent pink plastic giraffe.
Jovial and playful, but with a life marked by inner conflicts, Sandro Botticelli was born on March 1st, 1445. He was one of the most famous painters in the Florence of Lorenzo de’ Medici, known for his graceful and spiritual works, such as the The Birth of Venus.
The artist is on show at the Viasaterna Gallery in Milan, with an exhibition of recent works as the result of a constantly evolving process.
Integrated into a context and experienced by the community, these works are not merely a means of cultural dissemination but represent the icon of a metropolis: from the Statue of Liberty to Cattelan’s finger in Milan to many works of the master of the genre, Anish Kapoor.
Palazzo Grassi and Fondazione Prada, San Giorgio and Ocean Space, and more: here is a selection of all the unmissable events in the lagoon that are not part of the Biennale calendar but still worth a visit.