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.
"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.
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.
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.
The exceptional exhibition "Raimundo de Madrazo", organized by the Fundacion MAPFRE and the Meadows Museum, brings together more than a hundred works in the largest retrospective devoted to date to the refined Madrid painter. the technical virtuosity and the sophisticated world that Madrazo immortalized, revealing the legacy of an essential artistic dynasty and recovering for our time the exquisite sensibility of one of the great names of 19th-century Spanish painting.
The matador Jose Tomas and the artist Luis Gordillo have been brought together by their tribute to the bullfighter Victor Barrio. A bull, "Lorenzo", took the life of the young torero from Segovia. "Navegante" gored Jose Tomas gravely in Aguascalientes. The master of Galapagar knows what it is to die in the ring; he did it, but he came back after dwelling in that place. His heart never stopped beating even as life gushed out of him.
The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris hosts the largest retrospective devoted to David Hockney, one of the most innovative and life-affirming artists of our time. With more than 400 works, the exhibition celebrates his luminous gaze and his inexhaustible curiosity about color, technology and life. Hockney, at almost 88, continues to explore art with freedom, humor and sensitivity, proving that spring - like art - cannot be cancelled.
A couple of months ago a new urban mural appeared on a vacant lot in the Finsbury Park neighborhood, in north London, made by Banksy, which has once again brought one of the most outspoken and mysterious artists of the current scene back into the spotlight; he has claimed authorship through Instagram.
Cindy Sherman, one of the most influential figures in contemporary art, comes to Spain with a show that gathers some of her most emblematic works. The exhibition "Cindy Sherman. The Women", organized by the Hauser & Wirth Menorca gallery, traces a journey through four decades of the work of this American photographer, whose unsettling, poetic and profoundly conceptual aesthetic has revolutionized the way we understand identity, gender and the construction of the self through the image.
The professional career of the singular French jeweler Elie Top (Hazebrouck, France, 1976) is, to say the least, fascinating. From a very early age he showed an inclination toward design, fashion, architecture and gardens. At only 15 years old he ventured to send some of his fashion designs to
The political philosopher and 2018 Princess of Asturias Award laureate for Social Sciences, Michael Sandel (Minnesota, 1953), gave a lecture this Monday at the Areces Foundation, bearing the same name as his book, ‘The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering’. The new advances in biotechnology call for an ethical critique that is always highly complex, for, in order to preserve our moral and ethical values, particular cases make it difficult to resolve important questions.
Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin empire, is much more than an entrepreneur: he is a visionary who has pushed the boundaries of business, adventure, and philanthropy. From his beginnings with a student magazine to his journey into space, Branson champions a human-centered leadership committed to people and the planet. In this interview, he reflects on artificial intelligence, climate change, and his calling to change the world with passion, empathy, and action.
Nicolas Berggruen (1961) is the founder and chairperson of Berggruen Holdings and the interdisciplinary think-tank, the Berggruen Institute, where scientists, economists, philosophers and artists from around the world engage and put forward proposals to tackle the 21st-century challenges facing humanity. Among the issues raised against the technifying, globalization and capitalist background of our time is that of how we see ourselves and recognize the other person in all their fullness from a moral perspective.