Trevor Paglen, a leading artist who explores invisible surveillance and computer vision infrastructures, explains how artificial intelligence is changing our relationship with images, but will not spell the end of art.
At MASSIMO DE CARLO, “Dimora Dislocata” brings the Polish-German artist’s sculptures into dialogue with Piero Portaluppi’s architecture. Chairs, televisions, cobblestones, and everyday household objects become tools for challenging our perception of reality.
From California swimming pools to iPad drawings, David Hockney transformed colour, space and technology into a new way of seeing. Dead at 88, he remains one of the artists who most profoundly shaped contemporary visual culture.
From fake bread bags to pop album covers, from theatrical portraits to Ufos: Canadian artist Chloe Wise has built an imagery in which consumption, desire, irony and unease become a seductive form of critique.
In his restless and vulnerable nudes, Egon Schiele transformed the body into an unfiltered confession, portraying desire, solitude, and human fragility with a sincerity that remains disarming to this day.
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 Diane Keaton to David Lynch and Martin Margiela: auctions, archives, and personal objects show how an artist’s cultural legacy today increasingly passes through the spaces they inhabited, collected, and preserved.
A trip to the coast can also be an opportunity to explore the world of contemporary art. Here are ten unmissable exhibitions along the Mediterranean coast, from Gibellina and Stromboli to the Balearic Islands, Provence and the EMST in Athens.
What happens when the spaces that are meant to orient, protect and shelter us stop doing so? In contemporary art, architecture has become a privileged site for giving shape to anxiety, transforming houses, interiors and built environments into mirrors of the vulnerabilities of the present.
From his famous American flags to his dialogues with Duchamp, Picasso, and Beckett, the exhibition “Jasper Johns: Night Driver” at the Guggenheim in Bilbao traces the more than seventy-year career of one of the most influential and enigmatic artists of the 20th century.
Through Pentothal, Zanardi, Frigidaire and the spirit of Italy’s 1977 Movement, Andrea Pazienza captured the country’s shift from collective utopias to the disillusionment of the 1980s. Today, RaiPlay and MAXXI are bringing renewed attention to the artist who transformed Italian comics and visual culture.
From Leonardo to Vermeer, passing through Rembrandt: some paintings are not limited to being observed, but construct an ambiguous space in which the viewer ends up, inevitably, feeling observed in turn.
