I have always wondered how, precisely recycle art, arte povera, or found-object work was intended to save the world. Or if it is intended to do so. Considering how much we consume, and how much garbage we throw out, artists can surely not use it all. So what is their message? Many of the things […]
Drinking hemlock or being bitten by some poisonous animal may be fatal. But then again, so can abusing of the drugs that Damien Hirst displays in chock-a-block full show-cases, packed almost to overflowing in obsessively neat order. Technology is something that saves people and it is not always like that. Let us see what is […]
Waste Land is a film about finding the beauty in an ugly place. It’s about garbage and recycling, sort of. Or it is a film about looking at art, or about making art. Or about the potential of art to change people. It is all these things and more, I think, as I attempt to […]
The amazing Philadelphia Museum of Art is hosting, until January 16, 2011, the retrospective exhibition “Michelangelo Pistoletto: From One To Many, 1956-1974“. (Of course, while you’re there, do not miss the whole Indian temple in the classical art section and the exciting Duchamp room in the modern one!) The project is handled in collaboration with […]
Colour and attraction, Colour and seduction. They seem to go hand in hand. To verify my theory I consulted artist and seduction expert Laura González. Here is our conversation. AMK: Let’s talk about seduction and colour. Let me start with a simple question… For our purposes, how shall we define seduction? That is why we […]
For more than thirty years, from Belgium to Morocco, and from India to Egypt, Harry Gruyaert has been recording the subtle chromatic vibrations of Eastern and Western light. Photography requires more creativity and in countries where the cultures of East and West merge one gets a wider scope. In war-torn countries, there are many pathetic […]
I asked of one of the locals who is helping us out at Galleria illy to for suggestions as I wanted to check out the contemporary art scene in Berlin. ME Collectors Room I took to heart her recommendation of ME Collectors Room Berlin, a brand new space built by Thomas Olbricht to display his […]
In a rural hospital in Angal, in the northern reaches of Uganda, administrators are using computers to track patient and pharmacy data thanks to an Italian no-profit, “Informatici senza Frontiere” (techies without borders). This charity strongly believes that access to the technologies of information and communication are essential to economic and social growth. Volunteers for […]
There’s a new trend in Italy that can best be called “museum happy hour”. How nice it will be if someone tries to take you along with them and tell what is what and explain everything about things in a museum in detail. This article is an important source to check it. Sometimes you might […]
The new contemporary art museum in Rome, MAXXI, opened May 30th 2010. Controversy still surrounds the design of the building by architect Zaha Hadid, but one thing’s for sure: there is a new, international feeling in and around this building. I went to the MAXXI last week to breathe some of this international, contemporary air. […]