Travel Belgium Bruges BRUSK Flanders Museums
Bruges is so beautiful that, at some point, you almost feel like ruining it. You feel the urge to run a fingernail across the polished surface of its facades, to smudge the reflection in the canals, to take that obscene precision with…
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Works and artists Contemporary art
We cover our faces even before we know which part of ourselves we’re seeking shelter from. It happens when pain catches us off guard and our hands fly up to our eyes with animal-like speed, when shame makes us bow our heads, when someone…
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News Focus Modern Art Nineteenth century
An artist’s archive does not merely preserve letters, notes, newspaper clippings, receipts, envelopes, and scattered documents. When systematically examined, it can breathe new life into an entire historical figure, freeing it from…
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Opinions Contemporary art Photography
There are words that always come at the most opportune moment, when an action has already caused a rift and the news begins to crack the orderly surface of the narrative. “Art” is one of these. It appears when the image is no…
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Exhibition reviews Lucca Modern Art Ragghianti Foundation Twentieth Century
The fingers press on the keys with an almost painful subtlety. One seems to feel them as they rest on the black and white of the piano with a precise and obsessive tension, as if each phalanx must learn obedience even before the sound. In…
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Exhibition reviews Bauhaus Design Modern Art Switzerland Twentieth Century
There is a small blue timer hanging on the wall in one of the last rooms of the exhibition that the m.a.x. museum in Chiasso is dedicating to Max Bill, and perhaps it is necessary to start from here, from an object that is domestic and…
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Works and artists Etruscan art
In the Etruscan world, the divine came through detail. Every anomaly in the sky, every variation in the animal body, every vibration of the earth carried a message. The priest did not pronounce dogma, but he read the world. His gaze flowed…
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Interviews Carlo Maria Martini Diocesan Museum Museums
The director of the Diocesan Museum, Nadia Righi, looks at the museum as one looks at a question that never stops working under the skin, something that does not allow itself to be closed within the walls of a building nor within the…
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