Blockchain art: technology enters art

On the site of the digital artist John Orion Young you can buy 80 strange colored puppets: they are small digital sculptures made with the creative tool for virtual reality "Oculus Medium" and then sold through digital interactions using cryptocurrency and smart contracts,…
Pinacoteca di Brera, Caravaggio meets Rembrandt

Until 24 February in Milan, Caravaggio's Supper at Emmaus and Rembrandt's Emmaus Pilgrims' Supper will animate an unprecedented dialogue between two of the most important masters of light in the history of art
Meet Veermer: Thanks Google

Some screenshots of the “Meet Veermer” app, developed by Google Arts & Culture and coordinated by the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague. On the left, the opening screen from which to choose the room to visit. The interior of a hall at center and right…
In New York fake news becomes jewels

Easy to fall into the trap of sensational titles. Thoughtful and informed readers must also work to resist the pull of fake news, a phenomenon that currently dominates the American media. In his solo shows Fake News and True Love: Fourteen Stories…
Palazzo Ducale, the "Young Tintoretto" returns to Venice

The young Tintoretto is the new exhibition at the Doge's Palace in Venice curated by Roberta Battaglia, Paola Marini, Vittoria Romani, and which retraces the artist's steps in his youthful and most flourishing period through about 60 works among those already…
The photographs of Willy Ronis on display in Venice

The exhibition represents the most complete retrospective of the great French photographer in Italy and exhibits 120 vintage images, including a dozen unpublished dedicated precisely to the city of Venice, together with unpublished documents, books and letters
Fondazione Prada, Afro-American culture lands in Milan

The new project conceived by the Prada Foundation and the artist Theaster Gates, which presents "The Black Image Corporation", starts on September 20 and will last until January 14, in the spaces of the Observatory, in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan. The project explores the…
Berlin "The Polaroid Project" not just instant photos

Despite the digitization trend and the bankruptcy of Polaroid in 2009, the brand has recently returned under the name The Impossible Project, with its products rebranding as Polaroid Originals, reflecting the strong comeback of instant photography.
Feng Zhengjie's Femmes Fatales

An art that finds its maximum expression and concludes it, under the Qing dynasty and then transforms itself into the creation of advertising posters and exclusively political propaganda.
MONET, last hours at the Vittoriano

In the splendid setting of the Ala Brasini del Vittoriano in Rome, Monet opened the doors of his country house in Giverny to Romans and tourists for over six months, where he kept the sixty works on display and which are today…
Madrid, photography and cinema for Ellen Kooi

Ellen Kooi surprises us with her images, her work, exhibited in Madrid at the Camara Oscura gallery, appears to us truly meticulous, a guarantee of the quality of her new pieces. She usually prefers children as subjects photographed, because, as she says, “they are…
Turin, role of museums between conflict and heritage

In the European Year of Heritage, four cultural institutions of the city of Turin take up the challenge of bringing together artefacts and finds from the past and contemporary works of art. Even statues die is the title of this ambitious project, whose…
Albert Oehlen at Palazzo Grassi: Cows by the water

From 4 April 2018 until 6 January 2019, eighty-five works by the German artist Albert Oehlen will be on display at Palazzo Grassi in Venice. The “Cows by the water” exhibition, curated by Caroline Bourgeois, is the largest monographic exhibition dedicated…
Paris, Robert Adams at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation

Robert Adams (1937) is known for his photographic work on the transformation of the western landscape of the United States and his environmental awareness. The exhibition presents for the first time in Paris, the entire series Our Lives and Our Children, one…
Magnum's Italy, 130 images by masters of photography

From 9 May to 22 July 2018, the Diocesan Museum of Milan will host the exhibition L'ITALIA DI MAGNUM. From Cartier-Bresson to Paolo Pellegrin. An exhibition which sees 130 images of the most important masters of photography of the twentieth century, which tell…
Catanzaro, anthology by Marco Petrus

From 13 May to 20 August 2018, the MARCA - Museum of Arts in Catanzaro, directed by Rocco Guglielmo, hosts the anthology of Marco Petrus (1960). The exhibition entitled Anthological 2003 – 2017, is curated by Elena Pontiggia, and presents 35 works…
“Cantiere del '900” is enriched with a work by Scaccabarozzi

The Intesa Sanpaolo collection, as part of the Cantiere del '900 project, is enriched by the work Injection-Delimitation by Antonio Scaccabarozzi (Merate-Lecco, 1936 – Santa Maria Hoè-Lecco, 2008), thanks to a donation from Anastasia Rouchota, the artist's widow as well as founder and director of the Archive. The work belongs to the typology…
Zevi at MAXXI, an Italian counter-story

The exhibition that celebrates the genius of the architect, teacher, free thinker who made originality and freedom of thought his "trademark" was inaugurated in Rome and will remain open until September. Among the projects on display, all completed,…
Venice, an appointment with the Republic of Wonders

On 22 May 2018, in Venice, La Repubblica delle Meraviglie will be inaugurated, the new project by the duo Vinci/Galesi (Sasha Vinci, 1980 and Maria Grazia Galesi 1988), curated by Diego Mantoan and Paola Tognon, conceived following the winning …

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