October 2025: Alaïa and Balenciaga Sculptors of Shape @ Museo del Tessuto di Prato Foundation

Sketches from the Balenciaga archive, Paris Alaia rencontre Balenciaga by Beatrice Brandini In October, on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the Fondazione Museo del Tessuto, in collaboration with the Azzedine Alaïa Foundation in Paris, announces a spectacular exhibition Alaïa and Balenciaga Sculptors of Form, an exhibition project dedicated to two masters and absolute icons […]

I am LEONOR FINI @ Palazzo Reale, the artist with the fabulous nature.

Self-portrait with scorpion, Leonor Fini, 1938, private collection. Leonor by Beatrice Brandini “Then comes Leonor. The windows become light, the cobwebs become precious curtains of clouds and stars, the dry branches become lit candles, and the evening is a great evening; because Leonor (as I have told her a thousand times and as I will […]

“Time for Women! Empowering Vision in 20 Years of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women”

Women is the full circle A by Beatrice Brandini A glimpse of the exhibition “Time for Women!” Photo Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio. Courtesy Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence. Work by Emma Talbot Collezione Maramotti and Whitechapel Gallery present the exhibition “Time for Women! Empowering Visions in 20 Years of the Max Mara Arte Prize for Women” which […]