From the theft at Italy’s Fondazione Magnani-Rocca to major heists in Paris, Dresden and Amsterdam, ten cases from the new millennium show why art is never truly safe.
Between war in the Middle East and missing approvals, The Mastaba—the massive sculpture made of 410,000 barrels planned in the Abu Dhabi desert—remains on hold, while a new exhibition in Germany explores all the unrealized projects by Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
It's not easy to keep up with all the must-see exhibitions in Milan during Art Week and Design Week 2026: that's why Domus has selected the unmissable events to mark on your calendar for the craziest two weeks of the year.
In Venice, Paulo Nazareth’s exhibition intervenes in Ando’s space, transforming it from a neutral container into a device shaped by history, bodies, and trade routes—reactivating the memory of the Dogana.
From Gino Paoli’s song to the frescoes of Mantegna, Correggio, and Tiepolo, and on to James Turrell: how a room becomes sky—and how space exists only through the gaze of the one who inhabits it.
We don’t inhabit environments, we are the environment
We interviewed the Chief Curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, entitled “Bodies of Water” who describes Biennale’s as reality-sensing-devices.
Entering the studio on Via Fondazza in Bologna, Joel Meyerowitz photographs each bottle, vase, and jar used by the painter in his iconic still lifes. The project becomes Morandi’s Objects, a book set for release in 2026.
At HangarBicocca in Milan, exhibitions by Benni Bosetto and Rirkrit Tiravanija turn domestic space into a narrative and relational device, between body, architecture, and participation.
At the Variety Arts Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, a temporary program has reactivated a historic venue that has moved through vaudeville, cinema, and civic culture, presenting works from the Julia Stoschek Foundation in the United States for the first time.
Beyond the Biennale, Venice becomes a labyrinth of international art. Here’s our guide to the must-see exhibitions unfolding across the city.
Inside Valletta’s Grandmaster’s Palace, a scaled replica of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel becomes a reflection on authorship, power, and the narratives of art at the Malta Biennale.
At MIA Photo Fair in Milan, Phillip Toledano presents his AI-generated images and advances a radical claim: in an age where anything can be false, documentary survives only by staging the collapse of truth.
In London, the artist turns the foundation’s apartment into a habitable sculpture and actually puts it on the real estate market, somewhere between fiction, desire, and urban critique.
