With “So Cute! The Art of Happiness,” the French museum explores how the aesthetic of the adorable – from internet cats to kawaii, and even the Labubu phenomenon – has moved from the kitsch fringes of visual culture into art history and everyday life.
With “Extrasensory”, her first major institutional exhibition in Switzerland, the Canadian artist brings together UFOs, aliens, angels, demons, souvenirs, film and objects of worship to tell not the story of extraterrestrial life, but the human need to give shape to the unknown.
3D-scanned in the Amazon rainforest and reconstructed in steel, a monumental renaco tree is the centerpiece of Mariposita, the installation at Art Basel 2026 that imagines new forms of ecology. Artist Timur Si-Qin spoke to Domus about the project.
In Los Angeles, acclaimed digital artist Refik Anadol is creating the world’s first cultural institution designed to operate as a cognitive organism. But what happens when an artwork no longer represents reality and instead processes it in real time?
At ADI Design Museum, “Opera Buona” - the project conceived by Alessandro Guerriero - brings together architects, designers, chefs, and writers in a collection of micro-architectures created to support the work of Opera San Francesco.
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.
“Out of Place” arrives at Fondazione Luigi Rovati, an exhibition bringing together 284 works by artists who live or have lived in refugee camps, transforming the narrative of migration into a plurality of perspectives and experiences.
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 MASSIMODECARLO, “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.
