Orient Museum Namban Art Exhibition
Orient Museum In Lisbon Hosts Inaugural Exhibition On Namban Art The Orient Museum in Lisbon has launched an inaugural exhibition on ‘Namban art’, a rare collection of over 60 pieces of ‘Namban’ furniture, textiles, arms and paintings. The Portuguese were the first Europeans in Japan and ‘Namban art’ is any artistic expression from Japan and China in the 16th and 17th centuries that resulted from...
India For A Billion Reasons
This is a glorious photographic essay focusing on India, land of a billion people, a nation for a billion reasons. India continues to mesmerise and surprise the rest of the world as much as she enchants and bewilders her own people. An ancient civilisation and a young nation at once, modern India is a thriving democracy, an economic powerhouse, an increasingly assertive global political player and a world leader in science and...
Contemporary Grand Tour
They belong to different generations, so much so that they could be father and son. Two Britons have set up an exhibition in Rome under the same roof, in the context of a spate of autumn-winter events at Macro. CONTEMPORARY GRAND TOUR Roma, Macro The body, this unknown. In his research spanning a period of 30 years Antony Gormley (London 1950) has never stopped looking into the relationship between the human body and the surrounding...
China at The Lingotto
Virtual worlds and used soap to describe the drama of postmodernism man. But also to search for a dialogue between past and present. In Turin you breathe China… CHINA AT THE LINGOTTO Until 27.Feb.2011 TURIN, Pinacoteca Agnelli China Power Station: Part II arises from the collaboration between Ginevra Elkann and the owners of the Astrup Fearnley Museum. The works on display at the Pinacoteca Agnelli are the result of an...
Breaking news – Filippo Maggia
The internationality of a collection to which photos from every corner of the world are constantly added. Now it is the turn of Africa and the Middle East, amid conflicts, landscapes, intense focus, fotoreportage… Breaking news: why in certain areas of the world, where peace is a distant dream, news bulletins only emphasise the conflict, diplomatic talks, the topical events. A thought-provoking title, because the Modena...
The Footsteps Of Lakeland’s Artists
Visitors to a Dove Cottage and Wordsworth Museum exhibition, in Grasmere in The Lake District, can marvel at the resilience of their parasol-touting, well-to-do travelling predecessors, who would endure lengthy journeys, with boulders strewn in their path and the ever-present possibility of an overturned carriage, just to reach their destination! The Savage Grandeur and Noblest Thoughts exhibition highlights the phenomenon of...