These everyday photos look like Renaissance paintings — and reddit loves it
On the platform, users collect and share everyday photos that, purely by chance, closely resemble the aesthetics of Renaissance art.
Romeo and Juliet
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.
In Sentimental Value, the house is a trauma: di you notice the detail that changes everything?
At the center of Joachim Trier’s Oscar-nominated film, a family home holds everything its inhabitants never resolved, turning domestic space into an emotional trap.
The 5 new things at Salone del Mobile 2026: collectible, forgotten architecture, a newsstand, a film and… Rem Koolhaas
For its 64th edition, Salone del Mobile.Milano leaves behind the headline-grabbing collaborations of recent years and starts again from the fairgrounds, beginning with a new section that is something of an anti-Alcova.
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From skeleton sleds to traffic lights: mapping today’s design power with Konstantin Grcic
The Mayday designer uses skis, worn-out suits, and a tape-covered skeleton sled at Triennale Milano to reflect on a form of design that does not seek the wow effect, redefining instead processes, infrastructures, and collective choices.
Donald Trump wants to rethink Washington Dulles, Eero Saarinen’s Modernist airport
Among the proposals is one by Zaha Hadid Architects, featuring a terminal dedicated specifically to Trump.
Mayor Mamdani’s Carhartt jacket: a snowstorm and the silent language of power
As New York is hit by a blizzard, the city’s new mayor appears in a brand long associated with American workwear, reopening the conversation about aesthetics, labor, and political power.
Schiaparelli turns jewels stolen from the Louvre into a brilliant marketing masterstroke
The haute couture brand reinterprets the jewels stolen from the museum on the Paris runways, using current events as a marketing tool — and offering us a precious insight into what luxury means today.
Decathlon turns 50 with gorpcore… ok, but what is gorpcore?
An archive-driven project anticipates the brand’s fiftieth anniversary and places it within one of the strongest aesthetic languages of recent years: technical outdoor wear turned urban style.
Rediscovering Luigi Ghirri, one of Italy’s great photographers, through an exhibition curated by Luca Guadagnino
Co-curated with Alessio Bolzoni, Felicità brings together previously unseen works and offers a new reading of Ghirri’s practice, highlighting his powerful connection with contemporary visual culture.
Verner Panton’s most famous chair is back, and you choose the colour
"One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes" said the designer whose 100th birthday we are celebrating this year. So Vitra, the company that established his fame, is launching a contest to vote on the color of the next edition of the Panton Chair.
There are many photography exhibitions to see in Italy until spring
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.
A digital passport for event acess is the big innovation of Fuorisalone 2026
During this year’s Milano Design Week, a single QR code will grant access to events, starting with the Brera Design District.
In Colombia, a Biennial returns after forty years, ready to make itself heard
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.
20 bookstores to see at least once in a lifetime
From Lisbon to Shanghai, Domus has selected twenty bookstores to discover, ranging from projects by major architects to extraordinary experiments.
Mario Cucinella to rethink the Italian hill town of Urbino, following in Giancarlo De Carlo’s footsteps
In the small Italian city long seen as a model of humanist urbanism, Mario Cucinella Architects presents a new masterplan, carrying forward a cultural lineage that stretches from Duke Federico da Montefeltro to De Carlo.
Why David Adjaye’s MOWAA still matters, even as the museum remains closed
As protests postpone the opening of Nigeria’s Museum of West African Art in Benin City, David Adjaye’s architecture already articulates a powerful vision for West African modernism, rooted in history, material culture and sustainable construction.
Futurist bar designed by Depero reopens — but only for a limited time
After 40 years, Fortunato Depero’s Futurist bar comes back to life at Milan’s Bagatti Valsecchi House Museum. A rich program of events will bring it to life.
At Berghain, art meets the quantum. And something goes wrong
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.
The Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá asked three former students to design a “carillon” building
Designed by Carolina Jaimes, Juan Esteban López and Alejandro Puentes, the Brutalist-inspired building was conceived as a “sonic break” in the urban fabric of the Colombian capital.
The new charge station by Park in Monza is a manifesto of the circular economy
An electric drive-in emerging from the fog of the Po Valley: this is the Power Hub Monza, designed by Park for A2A, generating what a service station usually consumes.
Ettore Sottsass designed very few houses. One of them is in Hawaii
One of the rarest architectural works by the master of Italian design: the Olabuenaga House in Maui is a total work of art that merges architecture, interiors, and objects into a habitable manifesto of Sottsass’s thinking.
Who was Robert Mapplethorpe, really? The photographer of perfect nudes who scandalized America
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.
How Anish Kapoor describes his Naples metro station on Domus: “a sculpture that you enter”
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.
The Tamagotchi turns 30: our first digital companion
From a handheld game to affective notifications: how a 1990s object anticipated contemporary digital care.
The artwork transforming Casa Batlló’s façade for the centenary of Gaudí’s death
Barcelona’s celebrated house ushers in a pivotal year for the city, with a new space dedicated to contemporary art and the monumental video mapping installation Hidden Orders by Matt Clark.
A table designed by Mangiarotti and Morassutti for a Le Corbusier villa can now be in your home
For the great hall of Villa Schwob, the architects conceived a table whose elegance also lies in its mechanical components; today Agapecasa reissues it for the first time.
Renzo Piano to redesign the area around the Tour Montparnasse
In line with the ongoing renovation of Paris's most reviled tower, Renzo Piano is designing the area of the shopping centre below as a new multifunctional urban space open to the city.
An art weekend in Europe: 10 exhibitions to see right now
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.
Alex Honnold climbs Taipei 101, one of the tallest skyscrapers in the world, as Netflix broadcasts it live
Probably no architect has ever designed a building to be climbed barehanded; Alex Honnold doesn’t care and will reach the top of Taipei 101 without ropes.
Issey Miyake and ASICS turn a sneaker into a design experiment
Developed through a collaboration between Miyake Design Studio and the renowned Japanese sportswear brand, the new shoe represents a genuine innovation.
Louis Vuitton’s latest runway show is a house of the future, created with Not a Hotel
For the brand’s Fall–Winter 2026 menswear collection, Pharrell Williams stages the show inside Drophaus, a prefabricated house designed together with the renowned Japanese hospitality brand.