A guide to the best exhibitions to visit in Italy in March
From Milan to Pistoia, Venice to Gibellina, spanning painting, photography, design, and architecture: Domus has selected the exhibitions to add to your calendar for the beginning of spring.
Bentu
The new hanging of the collections and “Bentu. Chinese artists at a time of turbulence and transformation” at the Fondation Louis Vuitton are two different exhibitions, both solidly constructed around the idea of redefining the identity of contemporary Chinese art.
Hockney’s 90-metre iPad landscape: a British tapestry for the age of the museum shop
At the Serpentine North in London, "A Year in Normandy and Some Other Thoughts About Paintings" confirms how the former enfant terrible of British Pop Art has now become above all a lifestyle phenomenon.
A new exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce reveals the real idea behind Tadao Ando’s architecture
At the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, the exhibition “Claire-obscur” places works by Pierre Huyghe and Fujiko Nakaya in dialogue with the Rotonde designed by Tadao Ando, transforming the concrete cylinder into a perceptual device that reveals the central role of light in his architecture.
Airbnb headquarters
Designed by Heneghan Peng Architects, the new Airbnb offices in Dublin have been created to cultivate collaboration, interaction and a sense of community.
When painting becomes architecture: inside the Mark Rothko exhibition in Florence
More than 70 works at the Palazzo Strozzi demonstrate how Rothko transformed painting into a space for contemplation.
The Milanese home designed by Vittorio Gregotti where architecture and art coexist
In 1963 the young Vittorio Gregotti redesigned the interiors of his family apartment in Milan as a place where collecting, architecture and everyday life could coexist. Today that home offers a glimpse into a distinctly Milanese tradition: living with art.
Can Achille Lauro and Raffaella Carrà really promote Italy’s museums?
With its new campaign for the Musei Italiani app, Italy’s Ministry of Culture tries to tell the story of the country’s museum heritage in a pop key—drawing criticism from several directions. Domus spoke with director Luca Finotti and art director Paola Manfrin.
America. The dream that devours itself
The American imagination from its earliest art to today. From Edward Hicks to Edward Hopper, from Andy Warhol to Donald Trump: America has never stopped painting itself. The problem is that the portrait has turned into a caricature.
40 years of Renzo Piano in Domus
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All must-see exhibitions in Milan this spring
A selection of exhibitions held by foundations, cultural institutions, and galleries – with a few out-of-town stops – to discover the unmissable events in Milan this spring, recommended by Domus.
Steven Holl: Ex of In House
With this house – which geometry is formed from spherical spaces intersecting with tesseract trapezoid – Steven Holl questions current clichés of architectural language and commercial practice.
The largest exhibition of tarot cards in the world is in Italy, telling their true story
Spanning six centuries, the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo's exhibition showcases tarot cards from the Colleoni deck, commissioned by the Sforza family in the 15th century, to works by 20th-century artists and authors such as Italo Calvino.
Michelangelo. The impossible man
On the anniversary of Michelangelo’s birth, a portrait of an impossible man: a ferocious temperament, a profound solitude, and an art born from the conflict between form and matter.
The less good idea? “It’s the best one”: a lesson with William Kentridge
With a new monographic volume published by Skira and two exhibitions currently on view in Milan, the spotlight returns to South African artist William Kentridge. Domus met him.