BE OPEN is a creative think tank whose mission is to promote people and ideas: a cultural and philanthropic initiative that aims to harness the brainpower of the global creative minds in the arts, education, design, business, and the media – and asks them to imagine and then build solutions for the future. BE  [ Read More ]

Interview by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi   Picture yourself on a boat on the Amstel, traversing a world populated by cheerful strange creatures, through a stylised scenery, defined by clear shapes, bright colours and strong black, lines. Welcome to the visionary realm depicted by the Dutch artist, Jacqueline Schäfer. Her paintings, silkscreens and sculptures are currently  [ Read More ]

A great goal for four established artists taking part in one of the most regarded art fairs in the world.   Four cartoonists, Alberto Corradi, Diavù (Davide Vecchiato), Massimo Giacon and Ale Giorgini, one project: from the 7th to the 10th of March the quartet will develop and perform live the forthcoming show QU4TTRO (four),  [ Read More ]

              Triennale Design Museum presents KAMA. Sex and Design, a great exhibition about the relationship between eros and design. The title refers to the Hindu God of sexual pleasure, human love and desire. KAMA tries to deal with one of the more exasperated contemporary “ghosts”, but in the meantime the more  [ Read More ]

David Bowie is:  the Exhibition Victoria and Albert Museum – March 23rd – July 28th / 2013 Album cover shoot for Aladdin Sane, 1973. Photograph by Brian Duffy © Duffy Archive The V&A has been given unprecedented access to the David Bowie Archive to curate the first international retrospective of the extraordinary career of David  [ Read More ]

Marking the 50th anniversary of the 007 film franchise, the James Bond exhibition London event takes over the Barbican spaces, including The Curve and The Pit, to take you on journey through the iconic secret agent’s developing style. Designing 007 Titled Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style, the James Bond exhibition London event  [ Read More ]

A spectacular anthological journey through 53 photographs by the American artist, from some of his most famous series: Star System, Deluge (Awakened), Earth Laughs in Flowers, After the Pop, Destruction and Disaster, Excess, Plastic People, Dream evokes Surrealism, Art Reference and Negative Currency, along with two tributes to Michael Jackson. LaChapelle is not the photographer  [ Read More ]

ELLIOTT ERWITT PERSONAL BEST AT CASA DEI TRE OCI, VENICE One of the most intersting photography events of the year has landed to Venice on the Giudecca island, “Personal Best”, a selection of the best 140 shots of the contemporary master Elliott Erwitt. His whole career, sintethized in an exhibition personally realized by Erwitt, followed  [ Read More ]

SIGIS The artist who invented the technique of Vinylism The Venice Biennale of 2012 has declared Matteo Vaccari Sigismondi an actual Art Maestro, bestowing him the official recognition of having invented an artistic technique: Vinylism. The young Milanese artist, began as an enfant prodige deejay, in times when this profession could not be improvised, but  [ Read More ]

DIMORE STORICHE ITALIANE The handy unique platform to discover Italian Historical Mansions http://www.dimorestoricheitaliane.it Historical venues as art promulgators The historical, artistic and architectural heritage of each country, is an essential part of its cultural identity. Every palace, castle, villa or garden has his own story, and memory that must not be forgotten. Thus, the Italian  [ Read More ]

BANKSY CELEBRATES ZS40 WITH A LIZ INSANE “One’s painting one’s face…” If you’re in the UK you can’t have failed to notice news coverage of genius street artist Banksy’s ( http://www.banksy.co.uk/ ) latest creation. The enigmatic Bristolian chose his home town as the venue for this latest artwork, where the image of the Queen of  [ Read More ]

Che bello quando l’arte – nello specifico il video mapping – incontra la musica e i bravissimi organizzatori, pieni di entusiasmo per la seconda edizione del Video Sound Art, trovano non solo dei nomi di altissimo livello ma anche una location, Villa Simonetta a Milano,  suggestiva e di grandissimo fascino. L’associazione che ha organzzato tutto  [ Read More ]

SALVATORE CARRUBBA – IL CUORE IN MANO The Italian journalist, writer and academic has presented his most recent publication, a love tribute to the city of Milan. ‘Il cuore in mano’, the so called heart-in-hand, has always been the utmost quality of the town qualified as the moral capital of the Bel Paese. Salvatore Carrubba,  [ Read More ]

AN ITALIAN ON BROADWAY: LORENZO THIONE’S MUSICAL Lorenzo Thione, born in Mariano Comense (a small village near Lake Como), moved to the US through a scholarship he earned at Austin’s Texas University. In the course of a few years he started Powerset, an IT company based in San Francisco that sold to Microsoft in the  [ Read More ]

Artify It Secures Key Investments to Launch a New Platform to Transform Today’s Art Ecosystem Artify It, a San Francisco-based start-up, is unveiling today a new service offering that harnesses technology and a subscription-based model to provide artists, businesses and consumers fresh ways to experience high-quality, contemporary art The company announces today that it has  [ Read More ]

Michael Fassbender embodies, actually disembodies, Bobby Sands. Steve McQueen chooses to portray, in a very sober and blunt way, the final months of Bobby Sands, the Irish Republican Army activist who protested his treatment at the hands of British prison guards with a hunger strike. The film, produced in 2008, arrives in theatres after the  [ Read More ]

The horror-thriller-documentary by Hollywood star-artist James Franco. Francophrenia is the result of Franco’s collaboration with filmmaker Ian Olds on the set of General Hospital, based on dry footage of the star wandering the small backstage area, talking to cast members and crew. Franco, however, narrates with an increasingly psychotic tone, soon creating a sort of  [ Read More ]

DEATH CAN DANCE 100 Artists Images, Symbols & Signs. A Collection. Curated by Lori Hersberger Exhibition: April 13 –  June 18 Townhouse Ankengasse 8 CH-8001 Zurich Opening Times / Öffnungszeiten: Friday – Saturday: 12 – 6pm Tuesday – Thursday: By appointment Tel. +0041 (0)76 489 12 85 http://death-can-dance.tumblr.com/ ARTISTS ERIC ANDERSEN, IAN ANÜLL, NOBOYUSHI ARAKI,  [ Read More ]

Confirming his multi-tasking attitude in art, Mr James Franco is ready to explore one of the most important talents in photography for an upcoming brave new movie based on Robert Mapplethorpe’s life and art. Directed by Ondi Timoner, and financiated by the Tribeca Film Institude and by Mapplethorpe Foundation, which Director Michael Ward Shout has  [ Read More ]

Natalie Curtis’ (& more) exhibition, in collaboration with Michael Shamberg Between March and April 2012 Turtle Salon will be hosted by Meter Room (Coventry, UK) and Grey Area (Brighton, UK). A salon in two-parts, the project draws from Shamberg’s sprawling network of artists, friends, projects, & places. Featuring works by Romeo Alaeff, Michael Bartlett, Francis Baudevin,  [ Read More ]

The Associazione Culturale Sezione H, with Yourban MusicLab and Schio Comics has organized a brand new event celebrating the cult comic icon Dylan Dog from March 10th to 18th, in Caldogno (Vicenza, Italy). An occasion to meet  the myth and to celebrate the creative artists that have worked through the years to draw and write  [ Read More ]

Here the final list of the nominations of the 84th Academy Awards 2012, that will take place next feb 26th. Actor in a Leading Role Demián Bichir in “A Better Life” George Clooney in “The Descendants” Jean Dujardin in “The Artist” Gary Oldman in “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” Brad Pitt in “Moneyball” Actor in a  [ Read More ]

“Henri Cartier Bresson – images & words” is an unique exhibition started on January 19, 2012, at Palazzo Incontro in Roma, promoted by Nicola Zingaretti, President of the Province of Rome. The exhibition has been organized by Henri Cartier Bresson Fundation, Contrasto and Magnum Photos and it will be visited till may 6th, in the  [ Read More ]

The new generation of art is a mixture between street art and 3D paintings: here you are 3d street art! Lots of contemporary artists, and writers too, are now involved in this particolar new art, and also some brands have adopted this vehicle in order to create their adv , for example Reebok Crossfit, which  [ Read More ]

AMOS GITAI MEMORIAL ARCHITECTURE From the 4th of November 2011 to the 8th of January 2012 The Video Installation in the underworld of the Mole Antonelliana The enthralling basement of the Mole Antonelliana building opens, for the first time ever, to host the artwork of one of the greatest film directors of our times, Amos  [ Read More ]

The Poetry Brothel, a unique and immersive poetry experience, takes poetry outside classrooms and lecture halls and places it in the lush interiors of a bordello. The Poetry Brothel presents poets as high courtesans who impart their work in public readings, spontaneous eruptions of poetry, and most distinctly, as purveyors of private poetry readings on  [ Read More ]

“A world without Art and Creativity, is like a Harry Potter novel without Magic. With every stroke, the wish is to enliven every piece of Art with spells of enchantment from a “magic wand” dipped in the ink of an artist’s soul”. From Hong-Kong comes this amazing artist in illustration, comics and design world: Man-Tsun.  [ Read More ]

  9th November – 18th December 2011 Free Entrance   The first Italian solo exhibit of the artist Pipilotti Rist at Fondazione Nicola Trussardi opens, once again, the doors of the historical Manzoni movie theatre, that for over fifty years has been one of the most important cinemas in Milan. The elegant ambiance with fresco  [ Read More ]