Kirsten Goss was born in South Africa although her worklife began in London. Studying economics, she diversified into a degree in goldsmithing and jewellery design as this “was the strangest thing I could do while …

In 2014, Cape Town was elected World Design Capital, an honour granted every two years by the World Design Organization in recognition of cities that use design effectively as a guiding force for economic, social, …

The largest contemporary African art gallery, 9500 m2 across the nine floors of the Grain Silo Complex, this city’s landmark building, alongside the port, is an old granary dating back to the 20s (decommissioned in …

We seldom realise that art in museums is only for those who have eyes to see it. but it’s not always the case. We rarely stop to think of distant realities from our everyday life, …

The exhibition entitled “Elliott Erwitt: dogs are like humans, only with more hair” was inaugurated in the Casa dei Carraresi rooms, in collaboration with the Fondazione Cassamarca from Treviso and Magnum Photos. For the first …

From September 21, 2018 to January 20, 2019, Palazzo Strozzi will be housing the exhibition dedicated to Marina Abramovic. Stemming from a direct collaboration with the performance artist, the retrospective showcases more than 100 works, …

From Beijing, graphic designer Gao Yang’s Art Particle, expresses his admiration for Dieter Rams, creative director of the German company Braun from ’61 to ’95 and author of the 10 principles of good design (including the famous “Less, …

A tree-lined courtyard in the 15th district of Vienna. When you enter the Petz Hornmanufaktur factory it is as if time stands still: the air is rich with the scent of hot cow horns and …

From black Bronx ghetto subculture to a cultural phenomenon that spans music, dance, graphics, fashion, and visual arts: 40 years of Hip Hop are celebrated in Bologna at the ONO contemporary art gallery with an …

Uniting the parallel worlds of art and football was an impossible mission but, in collaboration with Seletti, Maurizio Catellan has succeeded in doing so. In fact, the Italian artist has launched the Museums League collection, …

  Berlinische Galerie / berlinischegalerie.de / Born in 1975 to celebrate the attachment of the city to modern culture and architecture, the Berlinische is housed today in a 60s manufacturing workshop converted into the gallery-museum by Jorg Fricke …

One of the most notorious street art collectives in Berlin, in constant rise from the end of the 90s to today in Germany and the world. Six artists, six friends, six different styles perfectly harmonized …

In the Dutch Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, architectural expert Beatriz Colomina has reconstructed John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Honeymoon Suite, the historic room 902 at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam. The work …

30 years after his tragic death at the young age of 32 (in Montepulciano on June 16, 1988), ARF! Festivals and Comicon present an intense exhibition of original works that celebrates the most eclectic and …

The 5th February will be the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Kurt Cobain (Aberdeen, 20th February 1967 – Seattle, 5th April 1994). The exhibition by Ono Arte Contemporanea in Bologna that opens from today, …

Piero della Francesca’s most famous fresco, Resurrection, appears more secular than spiritual: it portrays Christ as a victorious warrior coming out of the tomb after conquering death. Following a year and a half of careful …

Art Basel was founded in 1970 by Ernst Beyeler, Trudi Bruckner and Balz Hilt. In just a few decades, this modern and contemporary art fair in the heart of orderly Switzerland has since developed into …

Super-trendy and north of Downtown, Wynwood is the artistic heart of Miami. A neighbourhood entirely covered in murales and graffiti by famous artist from all over the world, animated by a burgeoning night life sceneevery …

31 years old, from Frosinone, with excellent communication skills and an ability to exploit them through social networks (250k on Facebook, 38k on Instagram), Jacopo Cardillo in art Jago is a sculpture in the most …

Street art against deforestation: As founder of the Street Art 2.0 project, French artist and photographer Philippe Echaroux has devloped an evolution of street art that is technological and ecological in form. Instead of working …

From 2nd March until 1st July, the Chinese artist Liu Bolin will be at the centre of a great exhibition on his incredible art of camouflage at the Rome Vittoriano: in his works the body …

The Frenchman, who became an artist after chancing upon a camera on a metro train, started taking and gluing together images on the same streets where he created them. JR (like the initials of his …

Until the 22nd April, the Hayward Gallery, which has reopened after 2 years of renovation, will be showing the images of German photographer Andrea Gursky. Gursky’s works, famous for their huge dimensions, are among the …

Born in Milan, 28 February 1942. An internationally famous photographer, perhaps, among the Italians, the most famous and quoted. “News reports are too easy, where you find slaughters, blood, the dead, take pictures everywhere, make …

Modern art is often desecration, use of different materials and styles, revolution in composition and settings. Rethinking the ways in which a work of art is exhibited, and innovating its use is the purpose of …

A self-taught and multifaceted designer, raised among the San Francisco music and art scene in the late 90s, Malakai has offices in Bali, Berlin and Los Angeles to date, decorating the faces, among others, of …

A dialogue between past and present, artisans and artists, raw and processed materials, ancient and modern art, which creates an incredible, unprecedented mixture and makes the exhibition Pompei @ Madre. Materia Archeologica among the most …

At the beginning of the 20th century, a compact and handy camera created artistic and feature photography as we know it today: the Ur-Leica model, with its manageability and reliability, marks the beginning of dynamic …

A wonderful blend of flowers and accessories which travel through time and cultures, Olaf Hajek’s illustrations and hairstyles are a blend of folklore, mythology, religion, history and geography. The German artist’s fervent imagination unites human …

Hugo Yoshikawa has travelled extensively. He has lived in New York, Paris, and Bangkok, studied at Camberwell College of Arts, and worked at agencies in Madrid and Tokyo. Now he works full-time as an illustrator, …

There is a subtle line that crosses through reality. Very few can see it, even fewer can illustrate it to others once they have seen it. It is that line that tells us that what we …

Damien Hirst is amongst those modern artists who have been most talked about and divided opinion. Loved or hated, praised as a genius or derided as a clever entrepreneur able to sell anything at astronomical …

Instruments, artwork, archival photos and bespoke installations, material from early concerts and complex stage designs: Their Mortal Remains is a complete Pink Floyd retrospective that promises to surprise fans and enthusiasts for years to come. …

Carlo Bevilacqua travelled around the world for five years in search of communities of people who had chosen to abandon the comforts (and also the stress) of modern society. His magnificent photo essays have been …

It was a wager that he won, like many others. Then again, as he says: “The results are the outcome of the love we have for what we do.” Some are painstakingly studied (e.g. The …

Ulisse Stacchini called it “The Cathedral of Movement”. He was the Roman architect who, in 1912, won the national competition to design the first significant railway station in the city. Milan Central Railway Station was …

One of the world’s leading photography agencies, founded in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, George Rodger and William Vandivert, in the form of a cooperative society of photographers, to bring together the …

Born in 1984 in Jelgava (Latvia), the artist Ieva Petersone studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Riga and collaborated with the Italian painter Marco Petrus, “with whom she shares a twentieth-century architectural aesthetic, …

      She is an English artist and illustrator, her name is Christina Christoforou, and she works in London and Istanbul. She began to portray the hairstyles of famous people commissioned by the New …

Where do tattoos come from? Some say they are from the Pacific Islands, brought to Europe by Thomas Cook in the eighteenth century. Others state they came from 1960s USA and the cultural revolution. But …

Six months spent analysing the most important international magazines and studying fashion trend reports, and over 60 people involved, including editorial staff, designers, hairstylists, technicians, and models. The Italian Touch #21 began in September 2016 …

The Resurrection by Piero della Francesca, a 15th-century fresco housed in the Civic Museum in Sansepolcro, is brought to life in a joint work by Riccardo Antonelli and Maurizio Rapiti. It is an oil painting …

This is a story of a journey to the other side. Or better, of a return voyage. A return from the cities, from the tarmac and cement, to the fields, the canals and the farmsteads. …

Woman and painter are two categories that could not go hand in hand in the seventeenth century. Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was an extraordinary woman and painter, which to this day makes her an important figure …

Graffiti: “A form of visual expression and artistic experimentation typical of urban spaces. It originates from the spontaneous and illicit act of using spray paint to create designs on walls in urban areas and on …

Contemporary art is often abstract and difficult to interpret, especially for audiences who are not enthusiasts or used to the works. Then there is Ai Weiwei. The most famous living Chinese artist has decided to use …

Suprematism is an avant-garde artistic movement that was founded in 1915 in Russia by Kazimir Malevič. It was theorised by the poet Majakovskij and its aim, through the simplification of figurative elements, was to achieve …

The occasion is being held to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the relations between Japan and Italy that opened up diplomatic connections between the two countries following two centuries of Japan’s isolation. A special exhibition …

It was to be expected. Street art is at a crossroads. On the one hand there are those writers and artists who fresco urban spaces around the world on a daily basis, while on the …

Who is Banksy? A contemporary genius, media provocateur, and guerrilla artist. Who is behind the masterpieces that have been astonishing the whole world for thirty years? Oil paintings on canvas, stencils, installations, sculptures, cartoons, performance …

The wait will be over on December 15, 2016, with the opening of the new museum of the Lascaux caves in the Montignac region of Southern France. The most famous site for Palaeolithic art in …

Beauty standards are volatile, they change according to time and place, even though women have an incredible capacity to always feel that they are inadequate in this regard. The history of art should instead help …

It has been there since October 1, 2005. In Western Texas, on the border with Mexico, 40 km from the town of Marfa, 2,000 inhabitants lost in the Chihuahuan desert. In the void that runs …

It was a long journey, lasting many years. More than 3,000 portraits, thousands of faces, cheekbones, eyes, lips, noses. A journey into gazes and thoughts. Until a revolutionary idea came to light. “I wondered why …

The tailoring of masculine cuts gives life to the man who is attentive to detail. Although it has a hipster feel, it projects a more relxed image: the hairstyle thus becomes more dynamic and medium-long …

The idea is simple but executed to perfection. A double digital exposure to combine two different photographs and create a new and unexpected image. With the series Norwegian Wood, which made him famous, Andreas Lie, …

Multiple bony hands, sharp like the scissors they are clutching in their fingers, draw in the spectator’s eye as it works its way up from the bottom of the painting toward the face at the …

The Italy & Italy project arose from a meeting between Pasquale Bove, photojournalist,  and Luca Santese, photographer and co-founder of Cesura, an interesting network of artists. From Bove’s vast archives, comprising more than 200,000 shots, …

It is entitled David Bowie is…, the most spectacular, complete and exhaustive retrospective of the career of David Bowie by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. It is in Bologna from the 14th of …

The word punk was used for the first time with the meaning of “prostitute”, in Shakespeare’s 1605 play, All’s Well That Ends Well. At the end of the 1800s, it carried the meaning of “useless”, …

Fifty years of history of photography on display at an exhibition in the MADRE Museum of Naples, until 24 October 2016. Fifty years of this subject packed into one of the most comprehensive exhibitions ever …

“I believe in the poetry of Polaroid, the crackle of old vinyl records, the smell of books made of paper”. In an age that is dominated by smartphones, social networks, and photos that invade every …

The word “genius” is often abused when speaking of illustrious, artistic, or visionary individuals. But not in the case of the Dutch engraver and graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (Leeuwarden, 17th June 1898 – Laren, …

Anna Maria Cecilia Sophia Kalogeropoulou, Greek from New York, born 1923. Should be named Vasili, like her little brother who died of typhus before he was born. The Evangelical mother accepted the birth of a …

It is the greatest work of land art ever created, in both size and visual impact. The Floating Piers, a project by artist Christo Vladimirov Yavachev, was inaugurated Saturday 18th June at Lake Iseo. Four and …

The fifth edition of Selvatica is sure to take your breath away with the high quality of works on display. The city and surrounding areas of Biella are ready to host a series of exhibitions …

Get insight into the imagination of the extraordinary artist known as Banksy. You can go to admire his works at Palazzo Cipolla, Via del Corso, Rome, where they are on display until 4 September. The …

He made his first course on painting, at the age of 17, with the New York School of Illustrating by correspondence. He travelled a lot in Europe, in his quest for the roots of painting. …

Helmut Newton’s first three legendary photography books are on exhibit in Venice: fashion and glamour photography was revolutionised in the 70s with White Women, Sleepless Nights and Big Nudes. Helmut Newton has always toyed with …

The Kiss is one of the most famous photographs in the world – but Robert Doisneau’s eye also managed to capture many others throughout half a century of work. From 1929 to 1979: fifty years …

550 metres of giant mythological figures between Mazzini and Ponte Sisto, along the Tiber Waterfront in Rome. It is an immense work of street-art designed and created by the South African artist William Kentridge. Innovative …

The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington is the American temple for art in every form. Famous for its collections, it is customary for it to organise exhibitions that redefine the concept of “event”, such as its latest initiative …

Illustration is an art somewhere in between advertising and painting. It makes use of many languages and uses them in a harmonious, coexistent way. This is the direction that the thoughts and work of German artist …

Séraphine de Senlis was a spontaneous, visionary painter. In the few years, between the two World Wars, she produced pictures that are the culmination of the naïve movement. Luis Alberto Alvarez, in his work Séraphine e Priscilla, pays homage …

There are two things that distinguish human beings from all other animals: laughter and wearing clothes. And between these two habits, there’s a fundamental difference: the first is an innate reaction, the second fruit of …