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An Immersive Exhibition Exploring Childhood at Palazzo Reale, Milan

08 Aug 2025

Starting July 22nd until November 2nd, 2025, Palazzo Reale in Milan will host "Valerio Berruti: More than Kids" the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever dedicated to contemporary artist Valerio Berruti. Produced by the Municipality of Milan – Palazzo Reale and Arthemisia, with the essential support of Fondazione Ferrero, this exhibition invites visitors on an extraordinary journey through monumental sculptures, interactive installations, animated videos, and even a genuine carousel.

 

Harland Miller, Hilary Pecis, Adam Pendleton, and Jordan Casteel create limited edition amphorae for charity.

By Artspace Editors

DEC. 9, 2024

Harland Miller, Hilary Pecis, Adam Pendleton, and Jordan Casteel are among artists who have collaborated with Artspace and Avant Arte to create a set of hand-painted amphorae. Proceeds from the sale of each amphora will go to charity: water - a nonprofit organisation founded in 2006 which brings clean and safe water to people around the world.

Harland Miller - Detail from Hz So Good, 2022

Harland Miller: 'I've always loved high and low culture. This painting perfectly encapsulates both, more than any painting I've made.'

By Artspace Editors

FEB. 22, 2023

In 1982, having left school a couple of years earlier as an ‘Easter Leaver’ , Harland Miller was serving an apprenticeship at Priestly’s, a T-shirt printer in York, in the north of England.

 

Harland Miller tells Artspace about his new edition R U OK? 

By Artspace Editors

JAN. 8, 2025

“I don’t want to lean too much on the horoscope – but I’m a Pisces, so I guess water is my element,” Harland Miller tells Artspace from his studio in Peckham, South East London. 

7 Innovative Mobile Abodes

 

Ice Fishing Hut #711 Scugog Point by Anonymous

7 Innovative Mobile Abodes (and the Artworks They Curiously Resemble)

By Artspace Editors

AUG. 1, 2017

As rents around the world continue on an unencumbered climb towards infinity (the average one bedroom apartment in NYC is now at $2,100 a month!), the refugee crises continues to leave more and more people without homes, and environmental disaster poses increasing threats to comforts we may take for granted, the idea of a compact, mobile shelter has become an appealing alternative for many. And regardless, why shackle yourself to an address when you can travel the world without ever technically leaving your own home? Commute? Your home is on the back of your bike! An inflatable movie theater? It'll be up before Netflix has even buffered.

 

Sensual indulgence … a detail from The Romans in Their Decadence, by Thomas Couture.

Art and design

Orgies, vampires and jewel-laden tortoises: it’s time we buried the myths of decadence in art

Is western civilisation being destroyed by its own decadence? Was the Roman empire? And does a preference for Lord of the Rings over The Matrix indicate that we are all doomed? Our critic tries to sift fact from fiction …

Jonathan Jones
Tuesday 21 January 2025

We are decadent. It’s obvious. Look around you. Books have been replaced by screens, restaurants are bigger cultural events than art (though they too are dying), and our highest cultural temple is The Traitors. “Western civilisation is being destroyed by its own decadence,” ran a Daily Telegraph headline last year. In his book The Decadent Society, American journalist Ross Douthat argues that the US has been in decline ever since Neil Armstrong got back from the moon. And conservative provocateur Michel Houellebecq has made the decadence of the west a pervasive theme of his novels – including the most recent, Annihilation, which I got for Christmas and read by twinkling tree lights, its bleak vision gradually sapping my festive spirit. So now I am going to inflict Houellebecq’s story on you.

 

Jean-Michel Basquiat

My life in art: How Jean-Michel Basquiat taught me to forget about technique

Basquiat may have had no formal training, but his visceral work communicates with absolute clarity and urgency his own experience of life, writes Will Gompertz

Will Gompertz
12 February 2009

I've just taken delivery of an extraordinary work of art. It's a contemporary homage to John Everett Millais's famous Ophelia. I think mine is way better than Millais's original, which, although technically brilliant, is a tad formal for my taste. Which isn't that surprising. Millais was a senior member of the art establishment – a serious and important man. The artist who painted my version has never had a job, and has absolutely no truck with all that establishment glad-handing. He's far more interested in chocolate ice cream and bedtime stories.

My life in art / How Willem de Kooning played Cupid

 

Willem de Kooning in his studio

My life in art: How Willem de Kooning played Cupid

The last thing I wanted to do on a romantic break in Amsterdam was traipse around a gallery - until I discovered the poetry of a De Kooning landscape

BIOGRAPHY

Will Gompertz
Friday 21 November 2008

The artist Willem de Kooning changed my life. Before De Kooning I had no real interest in art. Constable was for the top of cake tins and Warhol seemed no more than a competent graphic designer. I took a very literal view of art, whereas I found movies, music and books transformative – all of which would have been quite normal if I was 12-years-old, or even 17. But I wasn't: I was 25. I had managed to live a quarter of a century without art making any notable impression on me. And, to be honest, the circumstances which started this late journey were only brought about through ulterior motives.

 

CINDY ORD

Jeff Koons Looks Back on a Life in the Art World

T&C spoke to the artist in Qatar around the opening of a landmark new exhibition.

BY PHYLLIS TUCHMANPUBLISHED: DEC 20, 2021

Lost in America, Jeff Koons’s current retrospective in Qatar, features 60-some sculptures and paintings. There are golden oldies like "Rabbit (1986)," "Buster Keaton (1988)," and "Balloon Dog (Orange) (1994-2000)" as well as newer works like "Party Hat (Pink)(1994-2019)" and "Ballet Couple (2010-2019)."