Take a ring, cut it, twist one of the two ends, and close it again. The result is a ribbon that no longer has an inside or an outside—a continuous surface that can be traversed without ever encountering an edge. Max Bill (Winterthur, 1908…
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After setting a record in London with the sale of her extraordinary collection of Surrealist art and design, Pauline Karpidas (Manchester, 1943) returns to the spotlight at Sotheby’s with another chapter in her collecting story: a…
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Thirty works by Mario Sironi are being added to the national collection and will form the core of a new museum dedicated to one of the leading figures of 20th-century Italian art. In fact, the Mario Sironi Museum – Sironi Studies…
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Works and artists Mark Rothko Modern Art Twentieth Century
Thinking through pain means demanding that philosophy and writing take on the burden of that which resists all synthesis. In *Negative Dialectics*, Adorno asserts that physical suffering is the criterion of all truth, because it leads to…
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Two new exhibition itineraries offer a deeper exploration of Costantino Nivola’s work and the artistic connections that shaped his career. The Nivola Museum in Orani, in the province of Nuoro, continues “Nivola vis-à-vis,” the…
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In 1875, Giovanni Fattori spent a month in Paris—the only time he ever set foot there. He wrote two long letters to his brothers-in-law, brimming with wonder: streets as wide as squares, steamboats crisscrossing the city, carriages and…
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The monumental painting *Tribute to Rosa Luxemburg*, created in 1992, spans over 40 meters and almost completely envelops a circular hall, where the windows offer a view of the plains of Québec and the St. Lawrence River. It is…
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Travel France Modern Art Twentieth Century
“If only I could be the dust on the road and the feet of the poor could trample me.” I’ve often thought about these lines by Fernando Pessoa lately, but especially while walking across the floor of Alexander…
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