The philosopher and journalist Wolfram Eilenberger portrays the experiences and reflections of four titans of world philosophy in a book that explains the foundations of the European metaphysics of the era.
The latest book by the writer and academic tells the story of a man who waits for a woman. The reversal of roles, uncertainty and the question of subjective perception are the foundations of this gripping tale set in Lisbon.
The Musee d'Orsay celebrates its 40th anniversary with a major show devoted to Renoir's most luminous years, those from 1865 to 1885. Fifty paintings bring together the universe of pleasure, love and human conviviality that the painter built before his Impressionist crisis, a declaration in favor of a happy modernity.
Inspired by a famous drawing by Max Peintner, The Unending Attraction of Nature, the artist Klaus Littmann will recreate the dreamlike setting of the image in the Worthersee Stadium (Klagenfurt, Austria).
On 24 February, Ivorypress opened a major exhibition with the title BOOKS BEYOND ARTIST: Words and Images, where the visitor can see that the book forms part, on an equal footing, of what is considered a traditional work of…
"Anselm Kiefer. Fallen Angels" has just opened in Florence, an important exhibition by the German artist Anselm Kiefer (1945). His monumental work is confronted with the Renaissance spirit of the Palazzo Strozzi. This palace of Florentine pietraforte stone, inspired by Greco-Roman architecture, will house, until 21 July, a show curated by the historian and art critic Arturo Galansino, composed of paintings, sculptures, installations and photographs.
The work in question is one of Claudel's emblematic pieces. It depicts three figures: a kneeling young woman, "the imploring one", who stretches out her arms in a desperate gesture toward a man of virile build dragged like a wave by an elderly woman with the power to pull him away from her. This composition, like any work of art, lends itself to multiple interpretations, just as plural are the gazes of the one who observes.
After the recent death of the sculptor Martin Chirino, the Galaxia Gutenberg publishing house publishes the conversations held between Chirino and the journalist Antonio Puente over the last three years.
Berthe Morisot, a key figure of Impressionism, brought an intimate and feminine gaze to the modern art of the 19th century. With a unique sensibility for light and color, she portrayed everyday scenes with an unprecedented freshness, raising the domestic and the natural to a poetic category. Her daughter Julia, her husband Eugene Manet and the gardens of Bougival were muses of a body of work in which the instant and emotion merge with elegance and modernity.
The exhibition "Gauguin. The Noa Noa Diary and Other Adventures", which has opened in Rome, invites us to follow the intimate and artistic journey of the master of Symbolism. Inspired by his writings from Tahiti, the show reveals a Gauguin in search of the primitive and the authentic, far from a decadent Europe. With more than 160 works, including pieces by Van Gogh and Emile Bernard, the exhibition shows how Gauguin transformed painting into a spiritual and symbolic language that opened the way to the modern art of the 20th century.
Created and managed by the collector Juan Entrecanales, it is one of the most important private collections in Spain. On 25 May, moreover, a conversation between artists will be held at the venue.
Yesterday, some privileged ones, attended at the Liceu a perfect performance of Andrea Chenier. When opera reaches that degree of perfection, very rare on the other hand, and the audience surrenders like yesterday's at the Liceu, opera lovers understand what Riccardo Muti means about the difficulty of the art of conducting: "... I believe that I am halfway along the road, and I am sure that I will never reach the other shore of the river, because behind the notes dwells the infinite, which means God, and we are too small before God". The great attraction was the debut in Spain! of Jonas Kaufmann (48!) singing staged opera, so the house was completely full and the expectation indescribable.
Woody Allen never ceases to surprise. In his latest film, Blue Jasmine presents a completely new approach to the economic crisis about which cinema has also spoken so much in recent years. Inside Job, Margin Call, The Company…
Editorial Taschen has published a monumental collector's edition devoted to Salvador Dali, which in two volumes reveals previously unseen material on his life and work with the collaboration of the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation. This exhaustive overview shows the genius from Figueras in all his complexity: creator of the paranoiac-critical method, an egomaniacal provocateur and a revolutionary of 20th-century art. Among religious fantasies, erotic obsessions and the mythical figure of Gala, Dali embodied surrealism as a personal and vital attitude beyond any doctrine.
I saw your eyes fixing on my answer. “YES”. It came out of a dark and unsuspected part inside me. I remembered exactly that sensation and the need to breathe pure air. To sweat and feel the…
Under the title Estancias, Cuerpos, Palabras, the exhibition brings together more than a hundred works by the American artist, demonstrating the multidisciplinary capacity of a singular and unclassifiable creator.