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...
Expo 2020 Dubai, themed 'Connecting Minds, Creating the Future' and counting over 200 participants, kicked off with a ceremony almost a year after it was supposed to, owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, and welcomes the public from 1 October to 31 March
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
Taking up 1,700 square meters, this exhibition of 44 works by the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei (Beihing, 1957) opened on 9 November at MUSAC in León, to run until 18 May 2025. ‘Ai Weiwei: Don Quixote’ shows creations of the past twenty years
After sojourns in Alcoi and Avilés, it is the turn of the Valencian Institute of Modern Art to host the complete exhibition that commemorates the centenary of the birth of Juana Francés, the only female member of El Paso, a collective of Spanish abst
Female creators have been relegated to the second row of history, and in its firm endeavor to give them center stage, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid presents the first retrospective on the German Gabriele Münter ever to be put together in Sp
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
In the wake of the enormous success of a similar anthology held in its New York base, the Guggenheim Museum brings to Bilbao the oeuvre of Hilma af Klint, the Swedish artist and mystic who, inspired by her devotion to theosophy, can perhaps be consid
In line with the 21st International Architecture Week (2024), the Madrid Institute of Architects (COAM) presents ‘Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Le Fil Rouge’ until 12 January 2025. The concept of this traveling show is light and modular, designed to
Just like Saarinen and Pei, Paul Rudolph was part of that second batch of modern architects that defined the image of the United States in the course of the second half of the 20th century. But contrary to the organic sensuality of the Finnish-born m
On 2 October Museo ICO officially opens ‘José María García de Paredes: Meeting Spaces,’ an exhibition curated by the architect Ángela García de Paredes for the birth centenary of one of Spain’s leading architects in the second half of the 20th centur
While Aulenti was busy with the Musée d’Orsay, across the Seine Ieoh Ming Pei was building another of Mitterrand’s Grand Travaux: the pyramid of the Louvre, which anointed him on a world scale. The Cantonese who emigrated to America, however, was the
“A modern architect should know how to design anything, from an object to the streets of the city, because everything is connected.” Such was the vital outlook of Gae Aulenti, an indefatigable precursor whose buildings, installations, and furniture p
In the context of Festival Open House Madrid 2024, the MINIM gallery is showcasing photographs by Luis Asín until 26 October. Curated by Enrique Encabo and Inmaculada Maluenda, ‘Modern Madrid, Through the Eyes of Luis Asín’ offers a photographic inte
On view through 10 October at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona is the artistic intervention ‘Suspendre el Cel’ (suspending the sky), by the Brazilian artist Caio Reisewitz, which has been organized with the Prats Nogueras Blanchard gallery
The Seville-born master’s birth centenary is being celebrated in Madrid with an exhibition at Museo ICO, for the catalog of which the British critic has written an extensive assessment of his career…
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
On view through 8 September at the ICO Foundation museum is the first major retrospective on the work of Iwan Baan, one of the world’s leading photographers of architecture. ‘Moments in Architecture’ is a traveling show curated by Mea Hoffmann and pr
The photographer Boris Savelev (Chernivtsi, 1947) has always had a independent eye, and throughout almost six decades of career he has shaped a characteristic pictorial language, marked by strong color contrasts and particular shades of red. His imag
The Costume Institute’s latest exhibition, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, aims to reactivate the sensory capacities of masterworks in the MET collection. For this purpose, different techniques have been used, from artificial intelligence and
“How our group is dwindling, our first fighting and heroic group, how few of us are left.” As the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro reported in a letter written to his mother, this was a lament Picasso uttered at María Blanchard’s funeral in 1932. The tw
When she was almost a septuagenarian, Suzanne Valadon portrayed herself with her breasts exposed, a pearl necklace, and a defiant gaze. In this way – free of prejudices, flirty and provocative – she summed up her life and work. Accustomed to her pres
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
Madrid in March has staged the malaise of memory. The city’s Teatro Real has presented The Passenger, an opera whose characters travel on a ship that carries the remembrance of the horror of the Holocaust; the Royal Academy has inaugurated an exhibit
Marlborough Gallery, founded in 1946 by Frank Lloyd and Harry Fischer, will shut down this month of June, after nearly 80 years. The closing will affect its original base in London and locations in New York, Barcelona, and Madrid. In Spain the galler
Sculptures by the Valencian artist Manolo Valdés are on display in Venice through 15 June 2024. St. Mark’s Square is graced by twelve Reina Mariana pieces and a monumental Infanta Margherita, iconic bronze reinterpretations of famous portraits of Mar
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