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.
From California swimming pools to iPad drawings, David Hockney transformed colour, space and technology into a new way of seeing. Dead at 88, he remains one of the artists who most profoundly shaped contemporary visual culture.
In his restless and vulnerable nudes, Egon Schiele transformed the body into an unfiltered confession, portraying desire, solitude, and human fragility with a sincerity that remains disarming to this day.
From Diane Keaton to David Lynch and Martin Margiela: auctions, archives, and personal objects show how an artist’s cultural legacy today increasingly passes through the spaces they inhabited, collected, and preserved.
Designed by Heneghan Peng Architects, the new Airbnb offices in Dublin have been created to cultivate collaboration, interaction and a sense of community.
A trip to the coast can also be an opportunity to explore the world of contemporary art. Here are ten unmissable exhibitions along the Mediterranean coast, from Gibellina and Stromboli to the Balearic Islands, Provence and the EMST in Athens.
What happens when the spaces that are meant to orient, protect and shelter us stop doing so? In contemporary art, architecture has become a privileged site for giving shape to anxiety, transforming houses, interiors and built environments into mirrors of the vulnerabilities of the present.
From his famous American flags to his dialogues with Duchamp, Picasso, and Beckett, the exhibition “Jasper Johns: Night Driver” at the Guggenheim in Bilbao traces the more than seventy-year career of one of the most influential and enigmatic artists of the 20th century.
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.
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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.
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.
Chiara Camoni, the artist representing Italy at the 2026 Biennale, creates an exhibition of earth, ash, minerals and yarns to probe the increasingly blurred boundary between nature, industry and human presence.
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.
The Cittadellarte project by the master of Arte Povera, Michelangelo Pistoletto, has opened a hotel designed for visitors who want to experience the Biella-based foundation at a slower pace. It marks the latest addition to what has effectively become the “Pistoletto brand.”
