The 12 Chairs – Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov
A hidden fortune, twelve missing chairs and one gloriously chaotic search across the Soviet Union. The 12 Chairs is fast, absurd, sharply observed and far more modern than you expect.
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Inside Charlotte Colbert’s Possible Landscapes
In Venice, where reality already feels slightly improbable, we sat down with Charlotte Colbert to talk about imagination, gardens and what it takes to turn an imagined world into something real.
Anna Condo Was Never Going to Be Just One Thing
Anna Condo has moved through acting, film, photography, painting and AI without settling into a single language. Her work suggests that consistency can come from character, not repetition.
Belén Segú Has a Thing for Things
Belén Segú collects images, distorts them, and lets them drift somewhere between memory, still life and digital accident. The result is a world where familiar objects never stay quite as they were.
The Lost Art of Living in the Moment
What if every generation spends its life missing its own party? A reflection on nostalgia, imagined golden ages and the strange difficulty of recognising history while we are living it.
The Baron in the Trees – Italo Calvino
At twelve, Cosimo climbs into the trees and never comes down. What begins as rebellion becomes a lifetime spent asking how far we must step away from the world to live on our own terms.
When an Image Refuses to Stay Still: Diango Hernández and Olaismo
A room, a window, a horse and yet nothing stays still. In Diango Hernández’s Olaismo paintings, the image keeps shifting until it becomes partly yours.
The Lost Art of Details
The Lost Art of Details begins with a childhood memory of mother-of-pearl boxes, velvet interiors and horn combs. It asks a simple question: have details disappeared, or have we simply stopped taking the time to notice them?
George Condo and the Theatre of Being Human
George Condo paints the selves we try to keep under control. His fractured portraits turn elegance, anxiety and performance into a vivid study of how unstable identity really is.
The Lover – Marguerite Duras
Part memoir, part confession and part meditation on memory, The Lover by Marguerite Duras explores how certain encounters continue to shape us long after they are over, blurring the line between love, desire and remembrance.
The Places Yukiko Noritake Invents
Through quiet landscapes, oversized moons and dreamlike symbolism, Yukiko Noritake creates illustrations that feel suspended between reality and imagination, inviting viewers into worlds that resist easy explanation.
The Soft Unease of Minyoung Kim
Minyoung Kim’s paintings transform domestic interiors into quiet psychological landscapes, where curtains, shadows and familiar objects drift between memory, anxiety and dreamlike unease.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
Love, freedom and emotional contradiction intertwine in Kundera’s iconic novel, where intimacy becomes both a refuge and a weight too heavy to carry.
Barcelona 2035: the city as a living organism
Barcelona is imagining its future in public. Inside Barcelona 2035, urban planning becomes a reflection on how we will live, move and coexist in the European cities of tomorrow.
What’s with Baum? – Woody Allen
A debut novel at nearly ninety feels almost rebellious. In What’s with Baum?, Woody Allen turns neurosis into narrative, embracing complexity with wit and irony—no resolution, just beautifully controlled chaos.
The Architecture of Letting Go
Anger becomes structure, memory becomes material. In 13 Cents, Abdulla Elmaz traces the quiet work of looking back in order to step forward differently.
Time According to Diana Quandour
What happens when artist and muse form a “third mind”? A meditation on time, painting, and the power of unfinished work.
On Why I Don’t Want to See “Wuthering Heights”
When a wild novel becomes a brand event, something shifts. On beauty, budgets, and the risk of turning Wuthering Heights into spectacle.
Epitaph of a Small Winner
A novel narrated from beyond the grave, where ambition dissolves into irony. Epitaph of a Small Winner reminds us that clarity can be more radical than greatness.
The Lost Art of Being Eclectic
Before specialization became a virtue, eclecticism was a form of courage.
Salvador Dalí didn’t choose one discipline.
He chose an inner world and let it take shape everywhere.
The Space Between Reference and Control
Between reference and control, Sergio Miguel creates paintings that resist immediacy. Rooted in tradition but free of nostalgia, his work asks for time, attention, and a slower way of seeing.