Language of Bamboo: Tradition and Innovation at Gucci’s Bamboo Encounters

Image courtesy of Gucci.

MILAN—Italy’s long affection for bamboo can be found everyone, no less in Franco Maria Ricci’s Labirinto della Masone, the sprawling bamboo maze outside Parma, stands as a testament to its endurance and poetry. Now, Gucci’s Bamboo Encounters exhibition at the Chiostri di San Simpliciano during Milan Design Week 2025 invites a contemporary reassessment of the storied plant. Featuring artists and designers from around the world, the exhibit reframes bamboo not...

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Works on Paper: Renoirs at The Morgan This Fall

The Great Bathers (1884 to 1887). Auguste Renoir. Courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art.

UPTOWN—A large show of works on paper by Pierre-Auguste Renoir is being organized for this October by Colin Bailey, the Morgan's new director, according to... Text by Dannik.
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Metrograph and Grimm Gallery Collaborate on Louise Giovanelli’s New Works

Louise Giovanelli, Arena, 2020

DOWNTOWN—British artist Louise Giovanelli is now showing new work at Grimm 54. The exhibition, Still Moving, goes through June 21, 2025, and features a bunch... Text by Dalia Morgan.
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Popes and Dancers With Sculptor and Illustrator Francesco Messina

Francesco Messina

ROME—In 2022, the city of Rome hosted a comprehensive exhibition dedicated to Francesco Messina at Villa Torlonia. Titled Francesco Messina. Novecento Contemporaneo, the show brought... Text by Dannik.
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The Geometry of Motion and Zadie Smith

Photograph by Erich Höhne. Courtesy of Deutsche Fotothek.

Wassily Kandinsky, a painter of color and form, once envisioned a future where dance would shed its ornamental constraints and move toward abstraction. In Concerning... Text by Marguerite de Ponty.
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Five Questions for Greek Fashion Designer Kostas Murkudis

Photo by Martina Borsche

BERLIN—I don't really think that fashion is responding to the current state of the world. Text by Kostas Murkudis.
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The Poetry of Materials

Janice Lourie's computer-driven loom transformed textile manufacturing. Photo courtesy of IBM

Textile art, or as Anni Albers said, "the poetry of materials," has had many lives. In the 40s, we loved fabric. 24 foot stage curtains.... Text by Pina Lomb.
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Five Questions for Franco Maria Ricci

Franco Maria Ricci in 1984, at the launch of FMR U.S.A. at the New York Public Library.

Caverns were probably the first labyrinthine structures human beings came into contact with, in a distant past. And I, too, rummaged through my own past, finding a version of myself as the guise of a young amateur speleologist, equipped with the right clothes, flashlights, ropes, and climbing-irons. I was a second-year student at the Faculty of Geology and, with some friends, I had founded a so-called Cavern Society. My weekdays moved along on the surface, in the sunlight, while my weekends were usually devoted to the dark bowels of the earth. Text by fmr.
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