On the eve of Milan Design Week, the city reactivates an ancient gesture: opening what is hidden and transforming objects and spaces into a collective ritual, where design becomes an opportunity to see - and recognize - together.
It’s not artificial intelligence that’s the problem, but the logic already shaping music, fashion, and images: from Spotify to Margiela, today’s most compelling artists are those who derail the algorithm—even when they use it.
Cao Fei’s exhibition Dash at Fondazione Prada explores the transformation of agriculture through drones, algorithms, and automated farming, where human labor is gradually replaced by systems, data, and new technological rituals.
From miart’s new venue to the evolution of its role, and seven key exhibitions across the city: what to see during Milan Art Week 2026, in the words of artistic director Nicola Ricciardi.
For years, the brand has been building a global network of exhibition spaces that keep photography anchored to physical reality. In doing so, it also defines who, how, and where photography can still exist.
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.
Entering the studio on Via Fondazza in Bologna, Joel Meyerowitz photographs each bottle, vase, and jar used by the painter in his iconic still lifes. The project becomes Morandi’s Objects, a book set for release in 2026.
From the lost polychromy of Greek sculptures to experiences developed with Snap and playful applications, augmented reality—after years of anticipation—is now transforming the way museums interpret and narrate their collections.
In the history of art, the egg is never just a symbol. It is an operational device—one that creates perspective, matter, and vision, from Piero della Francesca to Warhol’s pop seriality.
From the theft at Italy’s Fondazione Magnani-Rocca to major heists in Paris, Dresden and Amsterdam, ten cases from the new millennium show why art is never truly safe.
Between war in the Middle East and missing approvals, The Mastaba—the massive sculpture made of 410,000 barrels planned in the Abu Dhabi desert—remains on hold, while a new exhibition in Germany explores all the unrealized projects by Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
It's not easy to keep up with all the must-see exhibitions in Milan during Art Week and Design Week 2026: that's why Domus has selected the unmissable events to mark on your calendar for the craziest two weeks of the year.
In Venice, Paulo Nazareth’s exhibition intervenes in Ando’s space, transforming it from a neutral container into a device shaped by history, bodies, and trade routes—reactivating the memory of the Dogana.
