For the sixteenth edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Holy See decided to participate with a proposal that scattered small chapels throughout the lush gardens of the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. This privileged enclave offers ideal co
Castles have been a recurring source of pride for communities, as well as a constant theme of interest for artists and architects, becoming deeply rooted elements in the collective memory of places and fundamental pieces of the imagination of many of
In the southern part of the Arsenale, the long Corderie building has been a central feature of the Venice Biennale since 1980. This unique structure once housed the production of ropes and cables for boats, a past still visible in its imposing roof a
On view through 16 July at the Roppongi Museum in Tokyo is ‘Miss Dior: Stories of a Miss,’ an exhibition designed by Shohei Shigematsu, a partner at OMA, which walks visitors through almost eight decades of the history and creativity of the Miss Dior
In the context of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, focused on Africa, the triangular pavilion of dark wood designed by David Adjaye takes its place just outside the Arsenale. Kwaeε means forest in Twi, a dialect of the Akan language spoken by m
After its successful run at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the traveling exhibition 'Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams' moves to the Museum of Contemporary Art of Tokyo. On view through 28 May, it is organized by a scenographic narrative de
The forms and materials of Orb, by the Spanish artist SpY, draw on mathematical and symbolic elements of ancient Egyptian culture. Its specular circular pieces reflect a fragmented environment. As SpY explains, “the installation’s rounded shape allud
Echoing the ruins of Beirut invaded by nature, the tower symbolizes the resilient and optimistic emergence of life with large openings that reveal lush gardens, bringing nature into the heart of the dwellings and into the city...
This research has derived into multiple exhibitions focused, among other aspects, on analyzing the boundaries between the domestic and urban space and the public and private realm through new technologies or atypical residential structures. ‘The Gran
For the this year’s ARCO contemporary art fair at Madrid’s IFEMA premises, Pedro Pitarch designed ARCO 40+1, a section conceived as an imaginary museum, to mark the event’s 40th anniversary. Inverting the spatial logic of art fairs, it is presented a
A bundle of slender metal diagonals breaks the traditional hierarchy of pillars and beams, altogether altering the Cartesian space inside the prism by offering fragmented views...
A series of mobile wings makes the huge host pavilion look like a bird in flight, a reference to the important role played by falconry in uniting the various tribes that formed the country.
An exuberant jungle shows how it is possible for architecture to embrace nature in combating the effects of climate change in cities and creating pleasurable ecosystems. The pavilion is powered by solar energy alone, and the dense vegetation lining t
With simultaneous references to Japanese Asanoha and Islamic arabesque patterns, a three-dimensional openwork represents the meeting of two ancient decorative traditions.
A basin of water and a membrane of stretched textile in a powerful metal framework manage to create an atmosphere that draws attention to the Amazon jungle’s water resources.
A snow-white prism contains a curved cavity lined in wood and bathed in brightness by a generous skylight, in an abstract echo of the lush landscapes that abound in the Nordic country...
Behind a mirror facade that has the effect of magnifying Switzerland’s national flag is. an immersive installation that transports the visitor to a sea of fog high up in the Alpine mountains...
A sheaf of stalks of cross-laminated timber forms the scenographic screen on which to project a sampling of cyberpoetry that results from online interactions of users.
The pavilion’s premises flank a large void that serves to give continuity to the public circulation route, conceived as a meeting place under the protection of an ethereal roof structure.
The proposals for new transport models are presented in a building of careened forms with a laminated skin of reflecting stainless steel that prevents overheating...
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Genoa is also preparing to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the voyage of Christopher Columbus, as it is the birthplace of the famous navigator. And it will be precisely the theme of the sea and navigation that will be the guiding thread of the C
With an extensive and varied trajectory of visual, conceptual, and performance art behind her, Esther Ferrer did not shrink away when in 2024 she received the unique assignment of designing a medallion that would accompany the Tomás Francisco Prieto
Swept away by wind and rough waters, the merchant ship Elorrio crashed into the cliffs of Langre a few days before Christmas in the year 1960, cutting short the lives of all but one of the members of the crew. The sirens, the alarms of people in the
“Where fantasy could reign supreme, creating furniture and decor of the most modern tendencies.” This is how José Yarnoz, visiting the 1925 Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes, described the Art Déco pavilions that w
That one of the great scandals of pre-revolutionary France involved a necklace of Marie Antoinette says much about her position in matters of state and society. Without being a political strategist or an intellectual, the foreign queen consort – init
To Western eyes, the three long decades that stretched from the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 to the ‘reform and opening up’ of the 1980s were rather flat in architectural terms: with all the focus on heavy industry and collectiv
From November to March, the Prado Museum is using its two floors of temporary galleries to host monographic exhibitions on Antonio Raphael Mengs (1728–1779) and Juan Muñoz (1953–2001). The painter conventionally labelled Neoclassical is presented in
A frequent error among bad artistic directors: when trying to recreate a past period – say the 1960s – they fill the film sets with architectural elements and objects of the particular moment: curving furniture, psychedelic lamps, vinyls, portable ra
They were born three decades apart but in places separated only by a hundred kilometers in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna plain; and although they never came to know each other in life, there palpitates in the oeuvres of Michelangelo Antonioni and Luigi Ghir
Ever since the legendary dispute that arose between Zeuxis and Parrhasius in ancient Greece, art history has seen notable rivalries unfold which, fortunately, have served as incentives for adversaries to pursue excellence and create authentic masterw
In 1973, Fundación Juan March awarded Cristina García Rodero an artistic creation scholarship, which she used to purchase her first 35 mm Pentax and spend a year traveling across the country to record customs, festivals, ceremonies, rites, traditions
Leaving aside the debate on whether some of his best-known photographs were faked, there is no question that the Hungarian-American Robert Capa had an exceedingly keen eye for capturing the rawest, but also most human, aspect of every instant. Always
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On view through 26 July 2026 at the Design Museum in London is ‘Wes Anderrson: The Archives.’ Curated by Lucia Savi and Johana Agerman, it was put together in collaboration with the filmmaker born in Houston in 1969, who selected most of the 700 item
Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, the founders of Amateur Architecture Studio, have been appointed to curate the 20th Venice Architecture Biennale, where they propose to address what they call “the death of architecture.” Renowned architects and educators, they
Until May 17, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León (MUSAC) is hosting ‘Yoko Ono. Insound and Instructure’, an ambitious exhibition dedicated to the Japanese artist with more than seventy works, dating from 1961 to 2015. The exhibition hi
Andy Warhol era todavía un veinteañero tímido y acomplejado cuando descubrió, gracias a la revista Life —concretamente, el 6 de agosto de 1949—, que Jackson Pollock era el mejor artista del mundo. En realidad, el artículo de marras tenía algo de vela
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Eight years following his resolution to stop painting – but not drawing – the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris has filled its building there with three hundred works which, on display up to March, together are a good reflection of the German visual a
“The useful raised to the rank of symbol.” That is how Martin Chirino would define his own creations, sensual drawings in the air that nonetheless, just like humble farming implements, were born of the sweat of the forge and the clash of the hammer.
With the tallest tower nearing completion, the Sagrada Familia basilica faces the final stretch of its construction, and for the as yet undefined Gloria main facade, the contractors have asked Javier Marín, Miquel Barceló, and Cristina Iglesias for a
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