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ARCHITECTURE: Alvar Aalto

The Finnish Architect, City Planner and Furniture Designer Alvar Aalto, in full Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (3/2/1898-11/5/1976), was one of Finland’s greatest …

Sterling Ruby, DRFTRS (9061), 2025, Collage, paint, and glue on paper, 28.3 × 43.5 cm | 11 1/8 × 17 1/8 inches, © Sterling Ruby, Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers Gallery

ART CITIES: N.York-Sterling Ruby

Sterling Ruby has created a complex, ever-evolving artistic universe that oscillates between raw abjection and aestheticizing abstraction. His ceramics, sculptures, installations, textile …

Takashi Murakami

TRACES: Takashi Murakami

Today is the occasion to bear in mind an artist known as the Japanese Andy Warhol, Takashi Murakami (1/2/1962- ), who  sience …

Left: Claire Tabouret, Model, detail © Claire Tabouret © photo Marten Elder, 2025 Right: Eva Jospin, exhibition view, Palazzo, 2023, Palais des Papes, Avignon © photo Benoît Fougeirol © ADAGP, Paris, 2025

MIRAGES LXXX

February is a month full of exhibitions, and this time we dedicate it to Paris, beginning with an overview and then a …

Joseph Kosuth

TRACES: Joseph Kosuth

Today is the occasion to bear in mind the American artist and theoretician, a founder and leading figure of the Conceptual Art …

Photo left: Hoda Kashiha, Gaze into a Glass of Wine in the Rainy Night, 2025, Acrylic and pastel on canvas, 150 x 120 x 4 cm (59 x 47 3/16 x 1 9/16 inches), © Hoda Kashiha, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia Photo right: Hoda Kashiha, Drink, Drink until the Red Flows Everywhere like Blood from the Trail of that Crimson the Sun Slowly Rise, 2025, Acrylic and pastel on canvas, 180 x 150 x 4 cm (70 13/16 x 59 x 1 9/16 inches), © Hoda Kashiha, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia

ART CITIES: Paris-Hoda Kashiha

Although Hoda Kashiha’s pictorial approach is in the American pop vein, her works address themes that resonate with the complex socio- political …

Sarah Sze, Breathless, 2026, Oil paint, acrylic paint, acrylic polymers, ink, Dibond, aluminum, and wood, 103 1/4 x 202 x 3 inches (262.3 x 513.1 x 7.6 cm), © Sarah Sze, Photo: Maris Hutchinson, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

ART CITIES: Los Angeles-Sarah Sze

Sarah Sze gathers objects and images from both the physical and digital realms, weaving them into intricate multimedia compositions that oscillate between …

Photo left: Marianna Simnett, Headless #1, 2025, © Courtesy the artist and Société, Berlin, Photo: Thomas Müller. Photo right: Marianna Simnett, Headless #2, 2025, detail, © Courtesy the artist and Société, Berlin, Photo: Jürgen Vogel for the Max Ernst Museum Brühl of the LVR

PREVIEW: Marianna Simnett-Headless

Marianna Simnett is a British-Croatian artist with a multidisciplinary approach who lives and works between Berlin and New York. Her immersive narratives …

Claes Oldenburg

TRACES: Claes Oldenburg

Today is the occasion to bear in mind Claes Oldenburg (28/1/1929-18/7/2022), the king of Pop Sculpture since the early ’60s. Whereas Pop …

Barnett Newman

TRACES: Barnett Newman

Today is the occasion to bear in mind the painter and theorist Barnett Newman (29/1/1905-4/7/1970), he is variously named as a member …

Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi

ARCHITECTURE: Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi

The Indian architect Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi, also called B.V. Doshi, (26/8/1937-24/1/2023),  is the first from that country to be awarded the prestigious …

Marcel Broodthaers

TRACES: Marcel Broodthaers

Today is the occasion to bear in mind the Belgian artist, poet and filmmaker Marcel Broodthaers (28/1/1924-28/1/1976). Although he produced art for …

Carlos Bunga - Inhabit the Contradiction, Exhibition view, Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian (CAM) – Lisbon, 2025-26, Photo: © & Courtesy Vasiliki Trochidou

ART CITIES: Lisbon-Carlos Bunga

Carlos Bunga’s practice spans sculpture, installation, painting, and photography, with a central focus on architecture, impermanence, and the notion of dwelling. In …

Ettore Spalletti

TRACES: Ettore Spalletti

Today is the occasion to bear in mind Ettore Spalletti (26/1/1940-11/10/2019). Ascribable to the Minimal tendency, his research has focused since the …