Art

Art

Land art in the Alps: 9 must-see parks at high altitudes

Land art is more relevant than ever: in the mountains between Italy, Austria, and Switzerland you can find nine places that uniquely combine art and nature, human creativity, and landscape conservation.

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.

Morocco

The North African country – recently hit by a terrible earthquake – enchanted many artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with its colors, architecture, and customs, from Delacroix to Ukrainian painter Zinaida Serebriakova. 

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.

Venezia and its cinema

The Venice Film Festival has started. This city has always had an intense relationship with art in every time period: Manet and Monet and their late 19th-century paintings are just two examples of all the painters that loved Venice throughout the centuries.

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité

Today is July 14, the day of the Storming of the Bastille. A location featured in many works of art: numerous ones depicting the attack on the fortress prison, while the painter Edouard Cortes obsessively portrayed the famous square that replaced it.