The French Riviera: an art and architecture itinerary towards Marseille
It is a legendary tourist destination in summer more than ever: we have selected some must-see points.
Italian Summer: shores from a drone
The photo exhibition by Jacopo Di Cera at Stamberga becomes a research on the society and the landscape of Italy.
The rediscovery of lake holidays in Carmen Colombo’s photographs
Apparently simple images frame fragments of everyday life that tell much more than what they show in this unconventional summer.
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.
Massimo Vitali’s beaches: “It is the normality of our lives”
We met the photographer best known for his large-scale pictures of ordinary people at the beach. He explained to us his art, and how it all started with a picture he took on the Versilia Riviera the day after Berlusconi had won the elections, because he wanted to understand “what Italians are like”.
Swimming pools as utopia: the photos of Maria Svarbova
For her Swimming Pool series, the Slovak photographer has explored the rigor of the rationalist swimming pools of the countries she grew up in. Today, her photos are sought-after icons among collectors and beyond. Here the interview.
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.
Five obscure and fantastic exhibitions on display this autumn
From HR Giger & Mire Lee in Berlin to the boundaries of surrealism at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, here are the dark and twisted exhibitions to visit right now.
13 Instagram profiles to follow right away
From the fairy-tale aesthetics of Grimes, to photos of the Fiat Panda on Italian streets: here is a selection of social profiles worth following this summer.
Domus’ guide to Manifesta in Prishtina, a catalyst for urban transformation
Far from mainstream destinations by its very nature, the Biennial lands in Kosovo: our itinerary through the places of a capital as young and dynamic as it is chaotic, for which Manifesta represents a new beginning.
Plateforme 10, one of the Europe’s greatest museum centers in Lausanne
With the recent openings, the Swiss city confirms its vocation as a museum. Our guide to the new artistic and cultural district.
The horse’s move
In great battle scenes by Paolo Uccello, Leonardo da Vinci, and Rubens, throughout its history art has given a crucial role to the horse as both the protagonist and an element of dissent.
The Soviet dream of conquering space, through its architecture
To realise the Kosmic Memories project, French photographer Vincent Fournier travelled through former Soviet countries in search of the places where the dream of space conquest was born. In the interview, he tells us the reasons for this journey.
Pray and work
From present-day history to the chronicle of a saint: Benedict of Nursia, a man who brought two great religions together and who knew how to interpret, through his rule, a true principle of peace.