Marvel’s characters according to those who read them all | Meeting Douglas Wolk

Wolk wrote "All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told." It presents the entire comic saga.

Batman’s team-ups | A Character Study through 80 Years of Comics

Sometimes a team-up is the best way to show Batman’s true colors and to explore his psychology and values.

Club to Club 23 | The best acts and what to hold on to from them

Club To Club 2023, an overall assessment of what worked and what didn't. Relive emotions of the festival in Turin from 2-5 November.

Milo Manara | "The woman's body is an army deployed to battle"

A guest at Lucca Comics 2023, Milo Manara talks about eroticism between revolutions, censorship, art, and current events.

At the doors of the Afterlife | Art thresholds and the perception of death

Antiquity offers the opportunity to reflect on different views of death, or on what the afterlife can offer.

Artistic revolutions | Cubist inspirations in One Piece

One Piece is a work of art to the most discerning eye, and to fully appreciate it, one must understand the principles of Cubism.

A Momentous 50th at Telluride Film Festival

Among major debuts and supermoons, the 50th edition of the Telluride Film Festival proves that it's all for the love of cinema.

Barbie and the Birth of Venus | Beauty icons through the ages

The Birth of Venus and the iconic Barbie doll are very different cultural objects. But are the famous Renaissance painting and the doll line launched in 1959 so far apart?

The Samurai Women Exhibition | Hidden Stories of Bravery

The exhibition inspired by the homonymous book by Benjamin Lacombe with texts by Sébastien Perez tells the life of brave women warriors from the Japanese tradition.

Ridley Scott 85 | The Last Film Craftsman

On his 85th birthday, we celebrate the career of Ridley Scott, one of the last great film craftsmen.

The Catcher in the Rye | Finding one's place in the world

J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye compares to other great American classics in the first person, such as Huckleberry Finn and The Great Gatsby.
Written by Hypercritc founder Alessandro Avataneo.

Collections

Exhibitions

Red as an endless ocean

From the dawn of humankind, red has carried countless symbolic meanings. Here is the History of this color through the arts.

The Sims series | What can you create in seven days?

What makes The Sims one of the most known and sold franchises of all time is in fact simply freedom; to do and be anything the mind can think of.  

Ridley Scott 85 | The Last Film Craftsman

On his 85th birthday, we celebrate Ridley Scott, one of the last film craftsmen, and his career.

Proust 100 | A Symphony of memory

One hundred years ago, in 1922, the 18th November was a Saturday. The First World War had ended, and then followed the Spanish flu epidemic that had decimated Europe: photographic…

The Defeat of Darkness

The symbolic meanings of light and dark throughout classical art. The first Hypercritic Exhibition.

14 February, 2023

Red as an endless ocean

From the dawn of humankind, red has carried countless symbolic meanings. Here is the History of this color through the arts.

04 February, 2023

The Sims series | What can you create in seven days?

What makes The Sims one of the most known and sold franchises of all time is in fact simply freedom; to do and be anything the mind can think of.  

14 December, 2022

Ridley Scott 85 | The Last Film Craftsman

On his 85th birthday, we celebrate Ridley Scott, one of the last film craftsmen, and his career.

18 November, 2022

Proust 100 | A Symphony of memory

One hundred years ago, in 1922, the 18th November was a Saturday. The First World War had ended, and then followed the Spanish flu epidemic that had decimated Europe: photographic…

01 September, 2022

The Defeat of Darkness

The symbolic meanings of light and dark throughout classical art. The first Hypercritic Exhibition.

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