Ut Pictura (Architectura) Poesis
From the Baroque to Hopper: a journey through theater as a visual device in art history, not a physical space, but mimesis, catharsis, and the architecture of absence.
10 brilliant exhibitions about to close
From Milan to New York, passing through European capitals, all the way to Shanghai: here’s a list of exhibitions worth seeing during the last weeks of the year, to start 2026 off on the right foot.
Lavazza Calendar 2026: Alex Webb’s Dolce Vita captures beauty in chaos
Award-winning Magnum photographer Alex Webb talks to Domus about the Lavazza 2026 Calendar, where coffee is found in the “chaos of everyday life” and Italian identity teeters between authenticity and cliché.
The light of the East
A blaze in China reignites an ancient tension: from Delacroix to Gérôme and on to Van Gogh, here is how the East has nourished, distorted, and inspired the Western artistic gaze.
Arte in Nuvola 2025: five must-see events at Rome’s contemporary and modern art fair
The Nuvola by Fuksas, in Rome’s EUR district, once again hosts the youngest among Italy’s major art fairs: 120 galleries and a program of special events. Domus has selected five not to be missed.
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.
An American street photographer in North Africa: Peter Ydeen’s journey
With Waiting for Palms, Peter Ydeen moves his photography from the streets of industrial America to the sandy architectures of Morocco and Egypt, opening a reflection on looking, stereotypes, and the responsibility of seeing.
Metakovan, the buyer of Beeple’s $69 million NFT, opens his own museum
Vignesh Sundaresan, collector and angel investor, has launched a new museum in Singapore dedicated to digital art. The institution opens with an immersive installation by Olafur Eliasson that records visitors’ experiences on a blockchain-based archive.
The furniture De Chirico imagined is real
For the first time in fifty years, a Milan exhibition brings together I mobili nella Valle, the series Mario Ceroli designed in 1972 for Poltronova, inspired by the metaphysical paintings in which Giorgio de Chirico isolated and enlarged everyday objects.
Pirelli Calendar 2026
Photographer Sølve Sundsbø transforms the four elements into visual archetypes, bringing Botticelli, Brueghel, Courbet, and Turner together in a dialogue between myth, art, and contemporary identity.
When pop music culture hijacks art history
Quotations, reinventions, tableaux vivants: all the times music stars have embodied their favorite works of art.
Performance, the underconsidered art that builds our time
From niche experiments to the heart of museum life: performance art is redefining how we gather, watch, and remember — and why it’s reshaping the art world today.
You can visit Nanda Vigo’s remarkable art collection in Milan
Fontana, Beuys, Ponti, Warhol: Nanda Vigo brought together over 108 works in her Milan studio-apartment, including Piero Manzoni’s first Merda d’artista. Today, the collection is on view at Museo San Fedele during BookCity 2025.