Timetable

Would you buy a bond from an art critic?

The revenge of the Body Art stems from Tiziano and Ribera (now at the Prado)

Ayan Farah’s soft, light and transparent self-recording

Master Paroto and the origin of his quirky sweetness

At the Teatrino of Palazzo Grassi Philippe Parreno reveals his affinity with Philip K. Dick

Seminal masterpieces by Mantegna to inspire the display of the new Accademia’s space in Venice

Who can identify the artist?

Helen Marten solo at Sadie Coles: the backstage of a visual itinerary

Murillo vs. Smith: 14 artworks soon under the hammer, check the ingredients before eating!

Oscar Tuazon solo in Zürich: a home, after a home, after a home…

Am I blue? From Leon Battista Alberti to Derek Jarman

The “labour theory” to read Pascale Martyne Tayou in Bregenz

At the Forte di Bard, Italy, for an enlightening dialogue about contemporary art with P. Josep Maria Soler, Abbot of the famous Montserrat Abbey

Young collectors, get inspired by this Christie’s auction …and keep your “Eyes wide open”!

At the Frick the two legs of a challenging relation: monumentality and dynamics in the Hill’s collection

In New York, four personal encounters with Piero della Francesca

May Hands, the ego wrappin’

To have a fresco in its place, or having it replaced in a museum?

Meredith Frampton painting Marguerite Kelsey: at Tate Modern, the arty side of fashion

Physicist Stephen Hawking: ‘Energy and information can escape black holes’

Rodi Gallery, when the white cube turns conceptual it goes on four wheels

The finest private collections of nothern Italian old masters on show in Brescia

Rodin and Michelangelo: idea, control and making of

Would Eugene M. Schwartz join Vastari.com to promote his collection?

Eugene Schwartz: Collecting is the only socially commendable form of greed

At Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome to realize that no beauty can flourish if flourishing is forbidden

Who knows Marco Palmieri?

In New York for the Old Masters Week

Is Symbolism the new starting point? Painter-theorist Maurice Denis introduces the great retrospective show dedicated by the Fondation Beyeler to enigmatic genius Odilon Redon

Martin Luther, portrait of a future King

In dialogue with Katja Novitskova, who dialogues with animals and Hieronymus Bosch

Street art in Florence (with Niccolò di Tommaso)

Art in Novels: Siri Hustvedt, “What I loved” (2003)

A Trip in Mantova with Candida Höfer

From Lucio Fontana to Nina Canell: a brief photographic history of neon light in art

El Greco: in Madrid a tribute to the European genius, 400 years after his death

From Michel Houellebeq an appropriate prelude to Avery Singer

Out of the tourist flock: last days to visit Antoniazzo Romano’s solo show in Rome

Sebastian Black, remembering of Giorgio Morandi and The Great Gatsby

Carlo Saraceni, an emerging old master

Speaking with Tacita Dean, about Tacita (in preparation to her new film première in Paris)

Cesare Ripa, Iconology’s father and ancestor of the “form and info” (to be discovered online)

When The Exorcist spoke about Vermeer and Leonardo da Vinci

Respect to Gillo Dorfles, the oldest living art critic, 103

Leo Gabin: shocking videos (with teens) at the service of traditional paintings

Thanks to NSA and GCHQ Europeans don’t need confessionals anymore

Tiziano and the conceptual program of his “Poems”

With Amnesty International at the finissage of “L’Age d’Or”, the controversial Adel Abdessemed’s solo show in Doha

Torey Thornton, tricks and strokes (from a phenomenological perspective)

“We painters use the same license as poets and madmen”, Paolo Veronese claimed in front of the Inquisition

Discover CFA’s contribution to Radio Aporee

Art in novels: when José Saramago wrote about Valeriano Trubbiani

A seminal Marco Basaiti to be discovered while waiting for the set-up of Galleria dell’Accademia in Venice

Yoan Mudry

Artist, are you following the Crystal or the Flame?

Art in novels: with “The real thing” Henry James grabs the essence of being an artist

At the Uffizi to experience the b-side visibility

Our first post of 2014 is writer Alain Elkann interviewing Fabrizio Moretti, gallery owner, collector, philantrophist and beloved publisher of Conceptual Fine Arts

Using old critic tools to read a new artwork would be a way to miss its novelty

Bramante: some links between form and info become surprisingly stronger in time

Art in novels: “the art we produce lives in queasy balance with the art we can imagine, the art the room expects”

Art in novels: “An Object of Beauty”, by Steve Martin, actor and collector

Zurbaran’s masterpieces painted by the moods of men

Cormack McCarthy and Waler De Maria: the cryptic epiloge of Blood Meridian and the legendary Lighting Field

Giuliano Mauri: the hidden gem out of the tourist flock

Tristan Tzara: dada artist or hero for a revolution?

Today a Raphael arrives in Turin to meet his imitators

10 simple questions to test the artistic quality of a piece of contemporary art

Art in Novels: In Venice visiting the Scuola Grande di San Rocco high on cocaine (according to Geoff Dyer)

Napoleon’s dream: a step forward to its revival in Abu Dhabi

Are we entering the post-curator era?

Revealing Giacomo Pozzi Bellini: a master of artwork photography of the XX century

Peeking into the new building of the Fondation Louis Vuitton, and into its software

Visiting a confortably empty church in Florence to discover a seminal Filippino Lippi

James Turrell, illusion and reality according to novelist Geoff Dyer