The Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany) hosts an exhibition devoted to the ancient Olympia shrine and its cult and to the contests held there that are revived every four years in the modern Olympic Games.
The Museum of Costume (Madrid, Spain) pays tribute to fashion designer Gianni Versace with the exhibition 15 years without Gianni. Tribute to Gianni Versace, an small show with wich the museum wants to recall the figure of the great Italian designer.
This fall, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago presents MCA DNA: John Cage, the latest installment of the MCA DNA series that features important building blocks of the MCA Collection.
The new season 2012-2013 at the Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain) will be featuring names such as María Blanchard and Atonin Artaud among others. Have a look at the upcoming exhibitions.
There are two artists that may have influenced modernism and our perception of what art is more than any others: Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. They lived and worked in close proximity, yet seem to have moved in completely different worlds. When Duchamp died, Picasso is reputed to have made a laconic comment: “He was wrong.”