How Cecilia Alemani is redefining art curating
From the Venice Biennale to the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, the Italian curator outlines a practice built on listening, care, and a deep engagement with artists and places.
Bentu
The new hanging of the collections and “Bentu. Chinese artists at a time of turbulence and transformation” at the Fondation Louis Vuitton are two different exhibitions, both solidly constructed around the idea of redefining the identity of contemporary Chinese art.
Romeo and Juliet
Four hundred and thirty-one years after Romeo and Juliet’s London debut, the myth of the two lovers of Verona continues to challenge art. Starting from the emotional urgency imposed by Shakespeare, and passing through the canvases of Hayez, Brown, and Dicksee, the story of their tragedy moved beyond the stage to take on form, color, and feeling.
There are many photography exhibitions to see in Italy until spring
From Mapplethorpe to Weston, in Milan, Venice, Turin, and other cities, photography is among the protagonists in the programming of museums and galleries in the early months of 2026. Domus has selected fifteen exhibitions not to be missed throughout Italy.
Airbnb headquarters
Designed by Heneghan Peng Architects, the new Airbnb offices in Dublin have been created to cultivate collaboration, interaction and a sense of community.
In Colombia, a Biennial returns after forty years, ready to make itself heard
Lucrecia Piedrahita Orrego, architect and curator of the Antioquia and Medellín Biennial, describes the revival of the event as a dispersed project unfolding across unconventional spaces and a city in the midst of redefinition.
At Berghain, art meets the quantum. And something goes wrong
In the global temple of clubbing, Pierre Huyghe unveils Liminals: an AI-generated figure drifts through a dead landscape as a quantum computer plays the cosmos. A collision of metaphysics and extreme technology that has already sparked fierce criticism.
How Anish Kapoor describes his Naples metro station on Domus: “a sculpture that you enter”
A new metro station has been added to Naples’ already extraordinary collection: Anish Kapoor, the artist behind Cloud Gate, has created at Monte Sant’Angelo a true contemporary gateway to Hell.
An art weekend in Europe: 10 exhibitions to see right now
New openings, expected returns, and ongoing exhibitions to see in January in European capitals at all latitudes of the Old Continent: from Madrid to Reykjavík, via Rome and Stockholm.
40 years of Renzo Piano in Domus
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Can art save a city? The inconvenient beauty of Gibellina
The Belìce earthquake strikes the Sicilian town in the late 1960s, prompting Ludovico Corrao to entrust its reconstruction to artists such as Alberto Burri. This marks a unique case of urban regeneration in Italian history, it is what today makes Gibellina Italy’s Capital of Contemporary Art 2026.
Steven Holl: Ex of In House
With this house – which geometry is formed from spherical spaces intersecting with tesseract trapezoid – Steven Holl questions current clichés of architectural language and commercial practice.
Can Rome be a contemporary city?
Two exhibitions in two of the city's leading museums, the Maxxi and the Macro, try to take the capital out of myth and put it back into the global present. With visions that come from two different planets.
Agron Hoti’s massive installation in the Dubai Desert spans 10 kilometres
The Albanian artist, highly praised by football stars such as Totti and Cristiano Ronaldo, is working on Clio, an intervention likely to become one of the most controversial artistic operations of recent years.
Au Cinéma
From the Golden Globes to Masaccio, from Hollywood to the Renaissance: cinema is the true heir to painting, which invented framing, editing and suspense centuries before film.