Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst (7/6/1965- )

Today is the occasion to bear in mind Damien Hirst (7/6/1965- ), since emerging onto the international art scene in the late 1980s, he has created installations, sculptures, paintings, and drawings that examine the complex relationships between art and beauty, religion and science, and life and death. Through documents or …

Kenjiro Okazaki, Et egredietur virga de radice Iesse, et flos de radice eius ascendet. And for all this, nature is never spent. Generations have trod, have trod, have trod. I got old. Landscape plotted and pieced — Off side of my thought? fold, fallow, and plough. For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow. The world is charged with the grandeur of God. Whatever is fickle, freckled — And still — it blooms. who knows how? The light is calm. We were struck by the sudden appearance of yucca trees The blossoms are not. Ring-a-ring o’ roses, come again another day. Praise him. The blossoms that remain are falling blossoms. That day, sunset seeing a butterfly fall. Nothing is so beautiful as Spring — when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush. (2026) © Kenjiro Okazaki

ART CITIES: London-Kenjiro Okazaki

With a unifying emphasis on form, Kenjiro Okazaki explores themes related to time, space, and the human experience through a postmodernist lens. …

Yona Friedman

ARCHITECTURE: Yona Friedman

Yona Friedman (5/6/1923-20/2/2020) is a historical figure of prospective architecture with more than 92 years of experience that has led him to …

Donald Judd (3/6/1928-12/2/1994)

Today is the occasion to bear in mind the American artist Donald Judd (3/6/1928-12/2/1994), associated with Minimalism. In his work, Judd sought …

Richard Long

Richard Long (2/6/1945- )

Today is the occasion to bear in mind the British artist Richard Long RA CBE (2/6/1945- ). He is an English sculptor …

Julio Le Parc

Julio Le Parc (23/9/1928-30/5/2026)

Julio Le Parc (23/9/1928-30/5/2026) was an Argentine-born artist whose pioneering experiments with light, movement, perception, and viewer participation made him one of …

ARCHITECTURE: Norman Foster

Norman Foster was born 1/6/1935 in Manchester. He became the 21st Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate in 1999. He has been awarded the …

Arnaldo Pomodoro, Forma X, I, 1968-1969, steel, ø 200 cm, Collezione Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milano, Photo Carlos Tettamanzi. Courtesy Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milano

PRESENTATION: Arnaldo Pomodoro-Una Vita

Arnaldo Pomodoro was an influential Italian sculptor renowned for his large-scale bronze sculptures that combine geometric precision with rich symbolic meaning. His …

ARCHITECTURE: Toyo Ito

Toyo Ito (1/6/1941- ) is a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical …

Jasper Johns, Untitled, 1964-65, Oil and charcoal on canvas with objects (4 panels), 182.9 x 426.7 cm, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, © Jasper Johns, VEGAP, Bilbao, 2026

TRIBUTE: Jasper Johns-Night Driver

Far from Expressionist rhetoric, Jasper Johns’s oeuvre is defined by an ironic, restrained approach that nonetheless carries emotional weight and is widely …

ARCHITECTURE: Frei Paul Otto

The German architect Frei Paul Otto (31/5/1925-9/3/2015) was best known for the huge roof canopies designed for the 1972 Olympics in Munich. …

Daniel Richter, Augustinus erkennt die Natur der Sache, 2026, Oil on canvas, 100 x 140 cm, © Daniel Richter, Courtesy the artist and GRIMM Gallery

ART CITIES: Amsterdam-Daniel Richter

Daniel Richter’s practice has evolved over time to encompass notable stylistic turns. Richter’s paintings synthesize art history, mass media, politics, sex, and …

Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda (30/5/1928-29/3/2019)

Today is the occasion to bear in mind Agnès Varda, (30/5/1928-29/3/2019) the French director and photographer whose first film, “La Pointe Courte” …

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