Giovanni Anselmo

Giovanni Anselmo (5/8/1934-18/12/2023)

Giovanni Anselmo (5/8/1934-18/12/2023) is a self-taught artist known for his sculptural installations created under the Arte Povera movement. He was born in Borgofranco d’Ivrea, Italy, and ended up splitting his professional time between Turin and Stromboli, Italy. This column is a tribute to artists, living or dead, who have left …

Shigeru Ban

ARCHITECTURE: Shigeru Ban

Shigeru Ban is a Japanese architect born  in Tokyo (5/8/1957- ), known for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard tubes used to quickly and efficiently house disaster victims. Ban’s experimental development of paper tubing structures came in 1986, before any of his programmatic commissions. He found paper’s structural …

Allan McCollum

Allan McCollum (4/8/1944- )

Allan McCollum (4/8/1944- ) is one of the most original and influential post-Conceptual American artists alive today. His work is repeatedly characterised …

Sou Fujimoto

ARCHITECTURE: Sou Fujimoto

Sou Fujimoto (4/8/1971- ) is a Japanese architect whose innovative residential structures and institutional projects represented a fresh approach to the relationship …

Enrico Castellani

Enrico Castellani (4/8/1930-1/12/2017)

Enrico Castellani (4/8/1930-1/12/2017), one of Italy’s most influential artists associated with the zero movement, Movimento Arte Nucleare and Azimut and is best …

Tatiana Bilbao

ARCHITECTURE:Tatiana Bilbao

Today is the occasion to bear in mind Tatiana Bilbao, (2/8/1972- ), the Mexican architect whose innovative works often merged geometry with …

ARCHITECTURE: Anne Lacaton

Anne Lacaton (2/8/1955- ) is a French architect and educator. Lacaton graduated in architecture from the École nationale supérieure d’architecture et de …

Rudy Loewe, The Search for Care / The Lack of Care’, Rudy Loewe, 2026, Commissioned by Wellcome Collection. “Rudy Loewe: Intimacies of Care – Spaces of Grief and Possibility” exhibition at Wellcome Collection-London, 2026, © Rudy Loewe, Courtesy the artist and Wellcome Collection, Photo: Benjamin Gilbert

ART CITIES: London-Rudy Loewe

Rudy Loewe is a multidisciplinary artist who blends painting, drawing, and sculpture to examine a complex web of socio-political dynamics. Through their …

Keith Sonnier

Keith Sonnier (31/7/1941-18/7/2020)

Keith Sonnier (31/7/1941-18/7/2020), was a pioneering figure in conceptual, post-minimal, video and performance art of the late 1960s. Born in Grand Mamou, …