Marcus Aurelius, who ruled the Empire amidst wars and famines, was born today. An equestrian statue in Rome and a painting by Delacroix commemorate the emperor, who was austere, plagued by doubts, and found solace in philosophy.
MASBEDO’s “Ritratto di città” (Portrait of a city) at the Museo del Novecento in Milan recreates the topography of a city driven by collaborative intelligence on an 8-meter LED wall.
Between the Giardini, the Arsenale and the historic center, it is easy to get lost in Venice, in this year’s vast Art Biennale. To prevent that and to avoid wasting time, here’s our guide with a map of the must-see pavilions.
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 Chinese artist returns to Italy, to the Tuscan branch of the super trendy Galleria Continua, where we met him.
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.
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.
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.
From the fair, introduced to Domus by director Nicola Ricciardi, to the must-see events in the city, here’s everything you need to know about the week when Milan becomes the capital of art.
25 years ago, Matrix made its debut, an interlocking game between reality and simulation, and for this very current, in which spaces play a key role.
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.
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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.
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