Warning! A man is going to jump from the Empire State Building…

At first everyone thought it was a man on the verge of committing suicide from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building, some have even called the police. However they were reassured by the notice that it was only a work of art. Indeed It was one of the disturbing sculptures of the "Even Horizon" project wich the artist Antony Gormley has spreaded on many roofs of Manhattan. "I think that those figures can help people to register their environment from a different perspective" said the artist and this is interesting because the installation can really offer to pedestrians a destabilizing moment for exit from the constant alienation often given by the city. In the end the work of art has a very strange effect because, as Gormley explained: “the viewer in some sense becomes the viewed”.

Miuccia Prada and Gertrude Stain: two iconic women with the same attitude for art

Looking together at these two portraits of the famous writer Gertrude Stain made by Picasso (left)and of Miuccia Prada by John Baldessari (right) it’s very interesting to notice the choice of the artists to represent their figures standing in a very similar way and this particular can moreover suggest something meaningful about their personality. We can’t know if they have an alike personality, but certainly they both have a really pundit taste in art and they also had regularly frequented different of the most influential artist of their time. As Gertrude was used to meet Picasso and Matisse at least two times a week, Miuccia is closely linked to Francesco Vezzoli, Carsten Holler, John Baldessari and Germano Celant (the curator of her foundation). Nevertheless the interest of the two women extends also in architecture: Stein lived in an avant-garde house designed by Le Corbusier, meanwhile Prada instructed the worldwide famous architects Rem Koolhaas and Herzog & De Meuron to design the stores of her clothing brand and together with the first one she conceived the Transformer Pavilion’s project, built last year in Seoul (South Korea). In the end although they have practised a different job we have to recognize that they have become in the same way two iconic figures of their time with the innate ability of catalyzing the attention of the most important artists among their contemporary, establishing with them unique relationships and boosting their careers enormously.

Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The landmark exhibition with three hundred works of the revolutionary genius including also scketches and sculptures is a unique opportunity to focus on the most representative stages of Picasso's career.
Open from April 27 to August 15, 2010.

F. O. Gehry skyscraper

The downtown Manhattan skyline is changing: the Frank Gehry's skyscraper is almost completed. This is the tallest building designed by the Canadian architect whose style is another time very recognizable.

Icon Remix

Inside a special industrial space located in the vibrant Meat Packing district in NYC all the pop icons that everybody knows, from Albert Einstein to Kate Moss, steal something to each other with an unexpected result.
This is the reign of Mr Brainwash, the artist pushed from his close friend Banksy to make his first show. Here you can find a mocking portrait of the Beatles with the Kiss' makeup, a crash oversize version of Campbell's Soup Can filled of pink paint and lots of other mad pieces of art.

Richard Meier Model Museum

Who would ever think that Richard Meier, the American architect famous for the austerity of his buildings and with white as a trademark, was used to make sculptures and collages together with the other models to conceive the final projects. That and many other things you can discover at the Richard Maier Model Museum in Long Island City.

The Museum is open Fridays by appointment only.

Death in Venice

Damien Hirst in Venice, the perfect town to speak about his favourite theme: Death.
At GalleriaMichelaRizzo from 12nd April to 30th July