About twenty unpublished works that have the Mediterranean routes as theme on view

The Mediterranean as a space of a story that has been going on for centuries, that has created and contaminated our culture, with the migrations that have made us become what we are. This is the background of Giuseppe Modica’s exhibition “Rotte mediterranee e visione circolare” (“Mediterranean routes and circular vision”), in the spaces of the Hendrik Christian Andersen House Museum, curated by Maria Giuseppina Di Monte and Gabriele Simongini.

In the exhibition dedicated to Leonardo and the Leonardeschi, 15 works from the 60s to today seal his link with classicism

Giuliano Vangi, who just passed away at the age of 93, admirably managed to combine the lessons of some great masters of the past with disturbing contemporary issues. When he came from Pesaro to the large studio in Pietrasanta, Versilia, he behaved as an inflexible, rigorous employee of himself: working hours from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. with a break for a frugal meal and to smoke a cigarette.

Foreigners Everywhere: il titolo della 60ª edizione della Biennale. Non una grande novità per una città come Venezia, con una storia millenaria di apertura allo straniero. Basta guardare l'architettura di questa Costantinopoli occidentale, dove il gotico fiorito del Nord si armonizza con i losanghe e le cupole dorate di Bisanzio e dell'Islam. Nei secoli è stata crocevia di popoli e culture che nella Serenissima hanno trovato un'accoglienza curiosa, intelligente; un po' ladra di idee a volte, di opere e merci quasi sempre.

Appena rientrata da un viaggio in Cina nella provincia dello Zhejiang, dove ho scoperto, oltre a tesori d’arte, quelli di un paesaggio composto di acque e alberi, vette fantastiche e mari di nuvole, che trasformano la realtà in sogno, non volendo staccarmi da quelle profonde emozioni, ho voluto continuare il mio percorso visitando a Roma, alla Galleria d’arte moderna e contemporanea, la prima personale italiana di Bai Ming, uno dei massimi artisti cinesi contemporanei.

Three artists of different backgrounds but with geometry in common as a way to understand reality

At the Monferrato Castle (Casale Monferrato - AL), “Tre Visioni della Geometria” (Three Visions of Geometry) is open to the public. This wide-ranging project is based on an in-depth analysis of the historical currents closest to it, from the kinetic art of the 1960s to the archaic and symbolist variations of the following decade, to the pure geometric neo-abstractionism of the 1980s.

65 photographic portraits bring attention to the last natives of the most remote areas of the planet

"I use my camera to get as close to humanity as I can," says the Englishman Jimmy Nelson, born in 1967 in Sevenoaks (Kent), one of the most important contemporary photographers exhibiting for the first time in Italy sixty-five large shots at the Palazzo Reale in Milan under the title of "Humanity" (the exhibition is curated by Nicolas Ballario and Federica Crivellaro, the catalogue is by Skira).

More than 100 works include original archeological finds and Roman replicas from leading international museums

“Fidia”, curated by Claudio Parisi Presicce, is the first of 5 exhibitions “The Great Masters of Ancient Greece” at the Musei Capitolini - Villa Caffarelli, in Rome. A cycle designed to make known the protagonists of the art of the past to the general public and that captures the need for incursions into distant civilizations to read the present.

Tokyo, Kanazawa, Naoshima, Osaka: a tour to discover a Country where Eastern and Western culture merge

In the 18th century fto take a trip to Italy was popular for the European aristocracy to discover the origins of their culture and take inspiration for their artistic production: it was the Grand Tour.

The exhibition explores some of the most discussed artworks and performances as Cut Piece realized from ‘64

The Tate Modern exposes more than six decades of Yoko Ono’s career, in a solo exhibition that crosses the milestones of her life. “Music of the mind”, until September 1st, is an opportunity to know her thought, through conceptual, performative, film and musical works. There are also some activist projects, which testify the commitment to peace and the environment, characteristic of her production.

On view 200 artworks trace the photographer long career

Voyeur, aesthete, nonconformist, rebel. Helmut Newton is the protagonist of an iconographic revolution. Interpreter of his time and forerunner of future trends, he shapes, with his shots, the contemporary aesthetic imagination. Born in Berlin in 1920 to a wealthy Jewish family, at sixteen years old he became the fashion photographer Yva's apprentice. He escapes Nazi persecution and arrives in Australia where his career starts.