Interviews Art and environment Contemporary art
At the Villa Medici in Rome, through December 19, 2026, the exhibition *Black Sun. Oil and Contemporary Art traces the omnipresence of oil—which, since the Second Industrial Revolution in the mid-19th century, has been intertwined with…
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Rossella Farinotti is the new artistic director of MACTE—the Museum of Contemporary Art in Termoli. A Milan-based curator, contemporary art critic, and journalist born in 1984, she will officially assume the position on December 1, 2026…
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Roberto Daolio, a prominent Italian critic and curator, argued that form is already concept. There’s no getting around it: the form we give to a work is never merely a shell, but inevitably embodies the idea from which that work…
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A ceremonial brass trumpet from Uzbekistan, Chinese and Southeast Asian wind instruments, gongs, drumheads, and twenty-meter-long pieces of fabric suspended in space. At the Tate Modern in London, sound takes shape through objects…
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Exhibition reviews art and fashion Contemporary art Valentino
At PM23 in Piazza Mignanelli in Rome—where the Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti Foundation hosts its cultural initiatives—the exhibition *AURA. Valentino Garavani and Ewa Juszkiewicz* begins with absences. The walls feature…
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What makes a face human in the age of artificial intelligence? This is the central question of *Magnifica Humanitas*, Matteo Basilé’s exhibition scheduled from November 12, 2026, to January 22, 2027, atthe Italian Cultural…
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Exhibition reviews Bologna Contemporary art
Anyone who spent time in Bologna in the 1990s surely remembers a stylized goose with long, jointed legs that chased itself from one street to another across walls, doorways, roll-up doors, and electrical cabinets—whose appearances seemed…
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What if a painting were so large that it couldn’t be displayed in a museum? That’s what happened with Anselm Kiefer’s Schwarze Flocken (2007), a painting 11.2 meters tall and 7.1 meters wide that, due to its size, had…
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