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At the edge of Barcelona nestles a collection of buildings by Xavier Corberó: a vision, perhaps a mirage that speaks to the illusive nature of art.
The tropical welter of vegetation painted in the cloister of the Mexican monastery of Malinalco bears witness to the encounter (and clash) of cultures.
Contemporary artist Marco Barina’s assemblages are attributed, in a piece of fiction, to imaginary pre-human populations.
Pietro Portaluppi's collection of antique sundials, now housed at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan, presented in a magnificent display.
The highly refined works of the great interpreter of French and American Art Deco, the Russian Romain de Tirtoff, known as Erté.
Andrew Graham-Dixon pens a perceptive portrait of George Stubbs, the horse portraitist of eighteenth-century England.
Screenwriter Don Campbell brings us his treatment for a tv series in development, Icarus, the story of humankind’s first lighter-than-air flights.
The starchitect Oscar Tusquets Blanca presents the Umbracle of Barcelona, a curious building to let water and sun pour in.
The author, a landscape gardener and botanical investigator of great artworks, shows us recondite vegetal details of renowned masterpieces.
Half painting and half diorama, the great “cyclorama” of the Battle of Atlanta recounts a moment in American history as well as commemorating a long-lost figurative genre.
In praise of the Andean Penelope, the Colombian textile artist Olga de Amaral, the golden spiderwoman of the Andes.
The Roman home of Luigi Serafini, the visionary author of the Codex Seraphinianus.
Recollections and travel notes from a journey through the lovely Christian religious centers of Oaxaca.
The deeper and less obvious meanings of the series “Primitive Humanity,” painted by Piero di Cosimo in the Florence of the Medici.
