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.

Andrea Pazienza, the comic artist who carpeted Italy’s lost generation

Through Pentothal, Zanardi, Frigidaire and the spirit of Italy’s 1977 Movement, Andrea Pazienza captured the country’s shift from collective utopias to the disillusionment of the 1980s. Today, RaiPlay and MAXXI are bringing renewed attention to the artist who transformed Italian comics and visual culture.

My eyes adored you

From Leonardo to Vermeer, passing through Rembrandt: some paintings are not limited to being observed, but construct an ambiguous space in which the viewer ends up, inevitably, feeling observed in turn.

Heneghan Peng Architects, Airbnb headquarters, Dublin 2016

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.

The fruits of desire

Forbidden apples, sacred pomegranates, and Dionysian grapes: from Tintoretto to Caravaggio, fruit in art has never been mere still life, but rather desire, eros, fleetingness, and a promise of eternity.

Cor, Cordis

From Baroque painting to medieval iconography, a journey through art, alchemy, and symbolism explores the heart as the spiritual, emotional, and cosmic center of human existence.

Archive

Archive

40 years of Renzo Piano in Domus

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Philippa Nicole Barr, Domus 892
Steven Holl Architects, Ex of In House, Rhinebeck, NY, 2016

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.

High rise living

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