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.
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.
The images rewriting the American photographic canon
Sixty years of Chicana photography are on view in Los Angeles, forming a powerful visual archive that tells a long-overlooked story. Curator Elizabeth Ferrer speaks to Domus about reclaiming a history that has too often remained at the margins.
At the core of today’s LA art scene are two 1930s houses by Richard Neutra
More than modernist icons, the Neutra VDL House and the Galka Scheyer House operate as living platforms for Los Angeles’ art scene. We visited them during Frieze Week to see how exhibitions, residencies and gatherings activate these historic spaces.
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.
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.
Inside Soviet playgrounds: when children played at conquering space
In the project Soviet Playgrounds, David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka document more than 150 playgrounds across the former USSR — rockets, spacecraft and climbing globes built during the Cold War.
From Christo and Jeanne-Claude to JR: the art installation transforming Paris’s Pont Neuf
Marking the 40th anniversary of the project that wrapped the historic bridge, JR prepares a monumental temporary intervention on the Pont Neuf in collaboration with Snap and Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter.
Esther Stocker, the minimalist artist behind Trento’s new underpass
The Vienna-based artist traces her path from radical painting to immersive spatial environments, culminating in her new intervention in the underpass of Trento.
Who is Anselm Kiefer, the great German artist taking over Milan’s Palazzo Reale
More than twenty years after the installation of the Seven Heavenly Palaces at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Kiefer returns to Milan with an extraordinary exhibition in the Sala delle Cariatidi at Palazzo Reale — the very space that, in 1953, also hosted Picasso’s Guernica.
It looks like a barber shop, but now it’s an art gallery: the new life of a Milanese shopfront
Gino Barbiere becomes an art gallery: Spazio Morgagni reinvents an iconic neighborhood store just steps from Bar Basso, without turning it into the usual, painfully boring white cube.
The real Milan is inside these 11 museums
From historic architecture to post-industrial conversions, from house museums to vast exhibition spaces: here are the galleries and museums of Milan you should have seen at least once in your lifetime.