Born Achillina Bo (Rome, 5 December 1914 - São Paulo, 20 March 1992), Lina Bo Bardi was an Italian architect who later moved to Brazil, a spokesperson for the social and cultural relevance of architecture and design. After graduating in architecture from the University of Rome, she moved to Milan where she began working at Studio Bo [...]
Zaha Hadid (Baghdad, 31 October 1950 - Miami, 31 March 2016) was a naturalised British Iraqi architect and designer. Born in Baghdad, she studied architecture and pure mathematics in Beirut and later in London. She taught architecture for seven years at the Architectural Association and became a member of the OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture). She is remembered, [...]
Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray (Enniscorthy, Ireland, 9 August 1878 - Paris, 31 October 1976) was an Irish designer and architect, considered the pioneer of the "International Style" aesthetic. Her father James, a painter, took her with him to Italy and Switzerland and made her fond of art and painting. She studied drawing and painting in London in [...].
Born in Bergamo, Angela Vettese (Treviglio, 1959) was immediately fascinated by contemporary art and chose to graduate in Medieval Philosophy at the University of Milan before going on to do a specialisation in Art History at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. He began collaborating very early on with "Il Sole24Ore" and with specialist magazines such as "Domus", "Flash Art International", "Frieze", the [...]
Cecilia Alemani (Milan 1977) is an internationally renowned Italian curator. She was artistic director of the inaugural edition of Art Basel Cities in 2018 and curator of the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2017. Over the past ten years, Cecilia Alemani has been responsible for commissioning and overseeing the production of ambitious art projects, for [...]
Live from London, on 8 July 2021 Christie's held "The Old Masters Evening Sale", an incredible auction dedicated to the great masters which, with just 46 lots, fetched a total of £45,083,250. At the same time, "The Exceptional Sale" was also held, an auction dedicated to art from antiquity to modernity which, with 30 lots, fetched a total of £45,083,250.
Born Guglielmina Gregori (Cremona, 7 March 1924), she is one of the most important art historians in Italy. A student of Roberto Longhi, she graduated in Bologna and then moved to Florence to continue her university studies. She rigorously carries on Longhi's methodological choices based on the principle of "educating the eye" to recognize artists and privileging a vision [...]
Margherita Grassini Sarfatti (Venice, 1880 - Cavallasca, 1961) was one of the first women in Europe to deal with art criticism, studying the writings of John Ruskin, Karl Marx and Anna Kuliscioff. A highly intelligent, cultured person, she was a great connoisseur of art and knew four languages. In 1902 she moved with her husband Cesare Sarfatti to Milan [...].
On 25 June, from New York, Phillips organised an auction dedicated to jewellery from major manufacturers such as Harry Winston, Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier, Cellini, Tiffany&Co, Graff, Bulgari but also master watchmakers such as Rolex and many other elite jewellers. The piece that has undoubtedly focused much of the attention [...]
Christie's opened its "Art d'Asie" auction in Paris on 9 June, offering an unprecedented selection of works from European and Asian private collections spanning 3000 years of Asian history. Among the lots on display are important Buddhist artworks, archaic bronzes, porcelain from the Ming and Quing dynasties, jade sculptures, cloisonné enamels, [...].