From the Venice Biennale to the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, the Italian curator outlines a practice built on listening, care, and a deep engagement with artists and places.
Four hundred and thirty-one years after Romeo and Juliet’s London debut, the myth of the two lovers of Verona continues to challenge art. Starting from the emotional urgency imposed by Shakespeare, and passing through the canvases of Hayez, Brown, and Dicksee, the story of their tragedy moved beyond the stage to take on form, color, and feeling.
From Mapplethorpe to Weston, in Milan, Venice, Turin, and other cities, photography is among the protagonists in the programming of museums and galleries in the early months of 2026. Domus has selected fifteen exhibitions not to be missed throughout Italy.
Lucrecia Piedrahita Orrego, architect and curator of the Antioquia and Medellín Biennial, describes the revival of the event as a dispersed project unfolding across unconventional spaces and a city in the midst of redefinition.
In the global temple of clubbing, Pierre Huyghe unveils Liminals: an AI-generated figure drifts through a dead landscape as a quantum computer plays the cosmos. A collision of metaphysics and extreme technology that has already sparked fierce criticism.
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.
The artist, a master of black and white long accused of obscenity and perversion, also known for his relationship with Patti Smith, is now on view in Milan until May 17.
A new metro station has been added to Naples’ already extraordinary collection: Anish Kapoor, the artist behind Cloud Gate, has created at Monte Sant’Angelo a true contemporary gateway to Hell.
New openings, expected returns, and ongoing exhibitions to see in January in European capitals at all latitudes of the Old Continent: from Madrid to Reykjavík, via Rome and Stockholm.
The Belìce earthquake strikes the Sicilian town in the late 1960s, prompting Ludovico Corrao to entrust its reconstruction to artists such as Alberto Burri. This marks a unique case of urban regeneration in Italian history, it is what today makes Gibellina Italy’s Capital of Contemporary Art 2026.
Two exhibitions in two of the city's leading museums, the Maxxi and the Macro, try to take the capital out of myth and put it back into the global present. With visions that come from two different planets.
The Albanian artist, highly praised by football stars such as Totti and Cristiano Ronaldo, is working on Clio, an intervention likely to become one of the most controversial artistic operations of recent years.
From the Golden Globes to Masaccio, from Hollywood to the Renaissance: cinema is the true heir to painting, which invented framing, editing and suspense centuries before film.
