Koyo Kouoh has been appointed with the specific task of curating the 61st International Art Exhibition to be held in 2026. Koyo Kouoh (Camerun / Switzerland) is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeit
The observance of the centenaries of illustrious people is but a late version of the tradition of paying homage to the powerful, or a cultivated version of the celebration of children’s birthdays, besides a symptom of contemporary superstitions, whic
Filmmakers might cast a city as a backdrop, or as an essential character in their cinematic narrative. I recall Stockholm as a distant, haunting witness in Ingmar Bergman’s early films, just as Tokyo lingers in the interiors of Yasujiro Ozu’s hypnoti
A movie that has just premiered in Venice to much applause tells the fictional life story of an architect who flees from a devastated Europe after World War II…
Anabelle Selldorf is carrying out the revamp of the iconic work of Venturi and Scott Brown.
Through meticulously taken screenshots, Cristian Prieto offers an immersion into the melancholy and poetry that emanates from decadence. His photographs of abandoned spots are a visual tribute to the hidden beauty of forgotten places. These spaces, l
Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature-length film, The Room Next Door premiered at the 81st Venice Film Festival, where it received a 17-minute ovation. Adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s novel What Are You Going Through, it tells the story of tw
How do you properly do justice to the life story of a Hungarian-born Jew who survived the Holocaust and emigrated to the US, where he toiled in poverty and indignity in pursuit of the American dream? According to the director of the highly anticipate
Rosario de Velasco certainly lacks no ingredient to qualify as a ‘one-painting artist,’ that sort of single hit in the career of an artist who, supposedly, produces no further special work, whatever the reason: shortage of talent, marriage, lack of o
When approaching Naples from the sea, one particular building immediately stands out, emerging from the dense fabric of the historic city and dramatically impacting its skyline: the infamous skyscraper that was built for the insurance company Societa
The British Museum has announced which teams will be competing in the next stage of the international competition to renovate its Western Range galleries, an ambitious project of reimagining over a third of the London institution’s gallery space. The
The engineer joined the Royal Academy of Fine Arts with a defense of the territory, and shortly afterwards received the medal of the deceased Javier Manterola. In October 2022, the Royal Academy hosted the commencement of the new academic year of the
The architect joined the Royal Academy of Fine Arts reflecting on architecture projects, to soon afterwards receive the medal of the late Antonio Fernández Alba. The term ‘interpretation’ is not usually used in architecture, but in other disciplines
Javier Manterola always went the extra mile. Mentor to us all, he infected us with his love for bridges, his daring to push farther, his search for new paths, and his aesthetic sensibility. He left us on 11 May at the age of 87, leaving us his ideas,
On view this summer of 2024 at Museo ICO is ‘Moments in Architecture,’ an exhibition originally set up at the Vitra Design Museum. It comes to Madrid as part of the PhotoEspaña festival, but this is not the first time for the spectacular photography
After Sri Lanka became independent in 1948, De Silva returned and set up a studio in her family home in Kandy, becoming one of only two women in the world at the time to establish an architectural practice in her own name. From there she began design
They had no way of knowing it, but somehow they cut adrift from the 19th century by capsizing painting altogether, defying their contemporaries as in a boycott, turning their backs on the Academy and on all the canons. They did not actually baptize t
Surrealism is the longest-living ism, the only avant-garde movement that has withstood the turn into the 21st century. Surrealist today are Björk’s videos (with explicit references to Man Ray), fashion (such as the collections of Rei Kawakubo, the Ja
In the vast canvas of history, the paintbrush of recognition occasionally chooses to highlight lesser-known artists, who are pulled out of the shadows of anonymity and given the transcendence awaiting them. This past 5 March, the jury of the Pritzke
The myth of the artist Richard Serra begins in his narrative the day that, at the age of four, he was present at the launching of a vessel at the shipyard where his father was employed. With succinct, abrupt eloquence the sculptor would time and agai
Two years ago, while planning a Rice Design Alliance tour of New Mexico’s Santa Fe and Abiquiú, I contacted the Albuquerque architect Antoine Predock to see if he would meet with our group during our visit. Predock graciously agreed to meet at the en
At Museo ICO, the architects and photographers Ana Amado and Andrés Patiño present the Franco regime’s exemplary adventure of rural colonies.
Madrid celebrates the 150th birth anniversary of the architect who built many of the projects that gave the city its image as a modern metropolis.
