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The Omer Fast theory: “Everything that rises must converge” to sex

by Stefano Pirovano

Here is how Omer Fast wrote a seminal chapter in the relation between art and sexuality, by talking about solitude...

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Michael Portnoy, improves

by Piero Bisello

We delve into the career changes and improvements of New York based artist Michael Portnoy through his work as shoemaker...

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New wave of bright talents stay away from the auction houses

by Stefano Pirovano

After being sleepy for a couple of months or so the heart of contemporary art market is ready to beat...

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Isabella Stewart Gardner, Katherine Sofie Dreier, Colette Allendy, Hester Diamond

by Carlo Prada

Against the idea that art should be reduced to mere interior decoration, here is a selection of collectors who have...

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Cecco Bravo and a 17th-century subsoil beauty

by Francesca Baldassarri

Cecco Bravo is dramatic and mysterious, feeding on hallucinatory eccentricity to make the viewer feeling part of the scene. 

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Who was Jef Geys?

by Dirk Snauwaert

A brief overview of late Belgian artist Jef Geys, spanning key projects, approaches, methodologies, and complexities

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Adriaen Coorte Rijksmuseum

The symbolic, erotic, and lunar asparagus

by Silvia Tomasi

Through Flemish painting, Manet, Max Ernst, Andreas Gursky, and Hannah Levy, we start to believe that the asparagus has feelings...

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“I’ve always done parodies of what a painting is supposed to be”

by Paul Laster

Ashley Bickerton first retrospective show is taking place in New York. CFA interviewed the artist to understand what happened to...

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Kristof Kintera collezione maramotti

Kristof Kintera and human’s monumental smallness

by Stefano Pirovano

A show at Collezione Maramotti shed some light on the fascination of Kristof Kintera for representing human individualism and foolish...

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“I think art is more powerful as a poisoned Kool-Aid”: an interview with Bradford Kessler

by Piero Bisello

We first came across the art of Bradford Kessler with a video he made in 2011 of a “Beetlejuiced” Charles...

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What is the price to pay to have priceless artworks?

  The amount of information related to art is increasing enormously, thus becoming extraordinary persistent, and actually accessible, if compared...

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