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Five self-portraits at the time of surveillance capitalism

by Antonio Carnevale

What takes you from facial recognition algorithms to a museum of ancient art? The hope of finding an antidote to...

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Heinz Frank and his metaphorical self-portraits

by Piero Bisello

We provide an overview of rediscovered Viennese artist Heinz Frank, a true contemporary master that defies art history and trends.

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Is this “Owl’s Nest” the Hieronymus Bosch’s self-portrait that we desire?

In our recent review about the exhibition ‘The Shell’ at Almine Rech Gallery, we stressed the importance of art as...

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Sam Falls: soon in Zurich a body of new works on canvas plus an unforeseen self-portrait

  The upcoming step of Sam Falls’ brilliant career as an artist is going to be his second solo exhibition...

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Parmigianino, "Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror", 1524, oil on convex panel", 1524 ca., Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

How to turn a self-portrait into a selfie? Just share it and add tags

by Antonio Carnevale

Selfie are casting a new light on self-portrait as well as questioning the boundaries between art history, psychology a sociology

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Sandro Botticelli: portraiture as a lost paradise

by Antonio Carnevale

Botticelli's portraits bring us to the golden age of his life, preluding his dramatic fall into debts and oblivion.

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Than Hussein Clark

A Portrait of Than Hussein Clark

by Piero Bisello

In this essay we paint a portrait of Than Hussein Clark as a hybrid between the figure of the impersonator...

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Emerging artist Tschabalala Self and the collective fantasies surrounding the black body

by Henry Andersen

In the art works of Tschabalala Self (b. 1990), identity is not a given. Her subjects are always formed precisely...

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“Florence, Portrait at the Medicis Court”: a seminal show that works better than any economic data

by Stefano Pirovano

Any art historian or museum director is perfectly aware of how difficult it could be to get loans from private...

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Scientific analysis of Oscar Kokoschka’s portrait of actor Ernst Reinhold reveal a mysterious under-painting

  These days, the Royal Museums Of Fine Arts of Belgium have dedicated a small section of their galleries to...

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This day in 1890 Vincent Van Gogh shot himself in the wheat fields behind the château in Auvers

  We would like to commemorate the extraordinary, sensitive and delicate human being that Vincent Van Gogh was with a...

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Maarten van Heemskerck "Self-Portrait in Rome with the Colosseum" (1553), Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum

Maarten van Heemskerck; a double portrait separated and united by the shadows

Maarten van Heemskerck (Heemskerck 1498 – Haarlem 1574) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He lived in Rome, Italy, from...

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Coincidences in 1976: José Saramago’s Manual and Francis Bacon’s autoportrait

  Anyone who paints portraits portrays himself. Therefore, the important thing is not the model but the painterand the portrait...

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Daniel Graham Loxton on Aelbert Cuyp at The Metropolitan Museum

by Daniel Graham Loxton

At the show with the artist: Daniel Graham Loxton visits the Dutch Masters at The Met and meets Aelbert Cuyp,...

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Henrik Potter: HINGE

by Céline Mathieu

The work of Henrik Potter is not the in-between. It is more the and and. It’s a mutuality, a literal...

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Emerging artists to watch: Willa Wasserman

by Sonia D'Alto

Willa Wasserman's work is inscribed in the phantasmatic possibilities of painting, in between contemplation and rejection of tradition.

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Marco Voena: 20 years ahead of time (an interview)

by Stefano Pirovano

We sat down with art dealer Marco Voena on the eve of the first online Tefaf, trying to understand the...

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Giant Polaroid, innovation or preservation?

by Chiara Agradi

A brief history of the Giant Polaroid, the largest transportable Polaroid ever built, which put together the art of photography...

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Closer to Van Eyck with Bart Fransen & VERONA project

by Piero Bisello

Contemporary technology and restoration have revealed a new Van Eyck. We discuss these topics with the director of the VERONA...

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In preparation for the debut of Jill Mulleady at Galerie Neu

by Stefano Pirovano

First solo show of Jill Mulleady at Neu marks a decisive step forward in her career. We sat down with...

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