Art

Art

Face to face with Ai Weiwei and his exhibition with lots of Legos

The Chinese artist returns to Italy, to the Tuscan branch of the super trendy Galleria Continua, where we met him.

The Baths of Caracalla

An installation restores water to the Baths of Caracalla. They were the largest baths in imperial Rome, masterfully depicted by the Dutch painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema in the nineteenth century. 

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. 

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. 

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.