By Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi   Milan’s latest Design Week has “shed light” on an exceptional master of illumination. Thierry Dreyfus is an art director, photographer and artist since 1985, when he first started experimenting with light inside theatres and operas.   Over the past 30 years, Dreyfus has sculpted, drawn, and projected light onto prints,  [ Read More ]

  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 ]

Saturday the 23 of June 2012, opens the fifth edition of Contemporary Art at Villa Pisani, a project that from now on, will take place every two years: Niele Toroni, and Arthur Duff are the artists encouraged to design and produce original works for the Villa Pisani Bonetti in Bagnolo Lonigo Vicenza, an early masterpiece  [ 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 ]

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 ]

Simon Lycett is the most important floral artist all over the World, with clients like the British Royal Family and lots of artistic events. Not to be surprised for Rome Film Festival 2011 Simon J Lycett Ltd have been commissioned to design the Red Carpet backdrop on the theme of “Punks and Patriots”, by critic  [ Read More ]

Great event in the collateral section of the Rome Film Festival 2011, Focus Uk, the retrospective “Punks vs Patriots” is an huge study, through cinema, on british society and culture over the last decays, thanks to a selection of movies chosen by today’s well-known artists, from Terence Davies to David Hare, Douglas Gordon and Michael  [ Read More ]

WIMBLEDON STUDIOS Where make-believe overtakes reality Wimbledon Film & Television Studios celebrates this October its first anniversary, for it was set up in the same month of 2010. The goal to unlock the outstanding potential of the former Merton Studios has definitely been pursued. The assets on site include a combination of large sound stages  [ Read More ]

In London anything, or should I say ‘everything’ is possible…even to stroll inside a chain of high end department store, such as Selfridges, and find yourself inside a museum of wonders. The Museum of Everything is one of Britain’s most successful independent art museum, and it is now hosting an exquisite new show. It is  [ Read More ]

V&A: WHERE WE COME FROM & WHERE WE’RE GOING The Victoria & Albert Museum hosts two incredible exhibitions: POSTMODERNISM: STYLE AND SUBVERSION 1970-1990 24th September 2011 – 15th January 2012 This is the first in-depth survey of art, design and architecture of the 1970’s and 1980’s examining one of the most controversial phenomena in recent  [ Read More ]

90TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS CULMINATE WITH OPENING OF THE GUCCI MUSEO IN FLORENCE   A year of events in celebration of Gucci’s 90th anniversary will culminate with the official public opening of the GUCCI MUSEO inside the historic Palazzo della Mercanzia located in Florence’s Piazza Signoria.  A permanent exhibition from its rich and culturally significant archive, which  [ Read More ]

The award will be presented to the two artists on June 4th, 2011 during the opening and award ceremony ILLUMInations Sturtevant and Franz West will be the recipients of the Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement of the 54th International Art Exhibition – ILLUMInations (Venice, Giardini and Arsenale, June 4th – November 27th, 2011).   The  [ Read More ]

Milano in aprile è bellissima, e non è solo la primavera che ingentilisce tutto, ma tutto e tutti si preparano per quello che – a dispetto delle varie settimane della moda – sarà l’Evento: il salone del mobile (in fiera a Rho), il Fuori Salone (più o meno dovunque) e da qualche anno a questa  [ Read More ]

The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe presents “Power to the Imagination: Artists, Posters and Politics” 18th Mar. 2011 – 13th Jun. 2011. Artists’ posters tell the story of protest, commitment to freedom and human rights, the fight for equal rights and tolerance. The exhibition presents in excess of 180 works by approximately 90 internationally renowned  [ Read More ]

Amazing  3D sculptures made by thousands of Crayola coloured crayons, can take nostalgic loving of childhood’s tools and new avant-guard-art searchers be almoust impressed by this 37 years old artist. The Alabama born Herb Williams has created about hundreds of this sculptures, from a nude of Marilyn Monroe portrait, an Obama, some party dresses, and  [ Read More ]

L’Hangar Bicocca è uno dei luoghi più suggestivi di Milano, nonché uno dei più difficili da raggiungere senza macchina. Si tratta di un capannone industriale riconvertito a spazio espositivo e per l’organizzazione di eventi, posizionato in un quello che fu il vero e proprio quartiere industriale milanese, quando a Milano c’erano le fabbriche e non  [ Read More ]

  “12th International Show of Architecture – People Meet in architecture” Venice Biennale 2010 The first chapter of this artistic long and fertile novel was conceived long time ago, in 1980, when the famous master coming from the eternal city Paolo Portoghesi inaugurated the International Exhibition of Architecture of Venice in the evocative space of  [ Read More ]