Giulia Avataneo

These days, the city of Milan is hosting Metafisica/Metafisiche, a wide-ranging exhibition on the concept of metaphysical art developed by the Italian painter Giorgio De Chirico. Not many exhibitions make you question how you read a room. This one does. Curated by Vincenzo Trione, the show gathers around 400 works – paintings, sculptures, photographs, design objects, architectural models, videos and more – loaned by over 150 institutions from across the world.

The Turin International Book Fair concludes today, 18 May 2026, closing its 28th edition with 254,000 visitors. The final figure confirms the Salone’s role as a central infrastructure within the Italian and international publishing ecosystem, where each edition functions as a consolidated snapshot of an evolving cultural system shaped by readers, publishers, and institutions. The Turin International Book Fair operates year-round as a continuous platform.

Il presidente degli Stati Uniti Donald Trump è arrivato alla Grande Sala del Popolo di Pechino per l'incontro con il presidente cinese Xi Jinping. I due leader si sono stretti la mano dopo l'arrivo di Trump a bordo di un corteo di auto, dove lo attendeva una delegazione statunitense composta dal Segretario di Stato Marco Rubio, dal Segretario alla Guerra Pete Hegseth e da amministratori delegati di aziende statunitensi come Elon Musk.