Diabolik takes over the Mole Antonelliana in Turin
The National Museum of Cinema in Turin presents “Diabolik alla Mole”, an exhibition celebrating the release of the movie Diabolik dedicated to the Italian anti-hero icon.
A journey through American photo archives in five books
We have selected five very recent publications from photo archives, which are increasingly becoming an invaluable iconographic source for contemporary publishing.
Kirill Savchenkov, architect of all too real role-playing games
Born in 1987, the Russian artist tells the cruelty of geopolitical scenarios through games, balancing the visions and traumas of his generation, and the natural human instinct for cooperation. We met him.
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.
Cagnaccio di San Pietro
One of the leading figures of Magic Realism, a nonconformist and rebellious artist during the Fascist era, has been brought back to public attention after years spent in oblivion.
6 exhibitions to understand the relationship between digital and real world today
NFT, video games, metaverses, mixed reality and influences: a journey through the exhibitions that tell of our present and future.
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.
As everyone was talking about the Metaverse, Radiohead launched their own
Thom Yorke’s band lands on Playstation 5 with “Kid A Mnesia Exhibition,” a digital show that looks like a video game. Rewinding time to the world of twenty years ago.
The Matrix slavery design between architecture and simulation
While waiting for Matrix 4, we return to the world of the original trilogy, an interlocking game between reality and simulation, and for this very current, in which spaces play a key role.
The legacy of Jimmie Durham: making arts means opening up to doubt
On receiving the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, Jimmie Durham sang a hymn composed of many different languages: happy and heart-wrenching, paradoxical and poetic, just like his work has always been. We remember the American artist who passed away at the age of 81 with an article published during the 2019 Art Biennale.
American Pastoral
At the Aicon Gallery in New York, Bernando Siciliano’s works of art, explicitly inspired by Philip Roth, immortalise the moments that narrate these two pandemic years.
There are more and more brands in the future of arts: the Xiaomi case
The Chinese multinational tech company involved seven students in a journey through cinema, design and fashion that culminated in an exhibition at the latest edition of Artissima. And it is an example of how arts change and brands evolve.
Wes Anderson’s most architecturally ambitious film, perhaps his worst
In The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson exaggerates and builds a completely fictional city, French in style and American in decor. But as they say, sometimes it is too much of a good thing.