Cinzia Ruggeri by Dino Buzzati (anno 1960)by Piero BiselloAn English translation of Dino Buzzati's text for the first exhibition of Cinzia Ruggeri in 1960, where magic realism meets art writing.
Ana Elisa Egreja: painting the texture of thingsby Maria do Carmo M. P. de PontesAna Elisa Egreja has painted interior scenes for twenty years. We talked to her in the midst of a change, discussing about creativity.
Lynn Fung and the fascinating, authentic and rare Liang Yi Museumby Ricko LeungAn interview with Lynn Fung, director of the Liang Yi Museum in Hong Kong, the largest private museum in town.
Contemplating Trifles with Fernando Marques Penteadoby Piero BiselloAn essay about Fernando Marques Penteado after a recent studio visit, showing how everything can be worth contemplating, trifles included.
Andrea Romano, Potsherds of Gazes (second book)by Stefano PirovanoA 13 drawings book is the last chapter of a series Andrea Romano has dedicated to the way in which power manifests itself in social relations.
Giambattista Tiepolo: escaping the museum roomby Antonio CarnevaleTiepolo's painting lives outside museums, inseparable from the places for which it was created. Here is a comprehensive map.
Artist-run spaces in Europe todayby Piero Bisello & Stefano PirovanoA landscape of artist-run spaces active in Europe today, testimonies from the interstice between institutions and market.
Benedetto Antelami: praise of gravityby Silvia TomasiBenedetto Antelami carves the most spiritual and quotidian figures in the heaviest Medieval stone, founding blocks of cathedrals and cults.
Art hotels: cultural experiences wantedby Stefano PirovanoIt's time for alternatives, not only to art fairs. We analyze art hotels as places for artistic experience beyond mere contemplation.
Giant Polaroid, innovation or preservation?by Chiara AgradiA brief history of the Giant Polaroid, the largest transportable Polaroid ever built, which put together the art of photography with art itself.
Painting + photography according to Tatjana Dannebergby Piero BiselloTatjana Danneberg grabs fragments of real life, turning snapshots and drawings into complex paintings. Steyerl's poor image lives again.
A mistaken perspective on the Renaissanceby Antonio CarnevaleWrong, defective, crooked perspectives: they were not painters' mistakes, but ways to represent thoughts and mysteries in the Renaissance.
Raphaela Vogel: unification of the manifoldby Stefano Pirovano and Sonia D'AltoExpressionism, monumentality and manifold in the works of Raphaela Vogel, before her solo exhibition in Milan.
Broken intentions: on damaged contemporary artby Piero BiselloCollectors and museums worried about broken artworks should remember that artist's intentions can fix many issues, including material ones.
The quotidian avant-garde of Gustave Van de Woestyneby Evelyn SimonsSymbolism and everyday blend in the work of Belgian master Gustave Van de Woestyne, a modernist who was able to make pious and rural life feel contemporary.
Villa Lena (Evstafieva) + Jerome Hadey: a cultural experienceby Stefano PirovanoA residency for artists, a hotel and a farm coexist at Villa Lena, supporting each other thanks to Lena Evstafieva and Jerome Hadey's vision on creativity.
Rodolpho Parigi: an interview with the virtuosoby Maria do Carmo M. P. de PontesRodolpho Parigi can paint whatever he wants. But the big problem, even for him, is choosing what is really worth representing.
What are combs for besides untying knots?by Silvia TomasiThe answer to combs collecting lies in the artists' creativity, from the Etruscans, to Füssli, Man Ray, Picasso, Dalí, Calder...
At the show with the artist: Jennifer Tee and Renaissance Rugsby Piero BiselloWe speak with Jennifer Tee about Renaissance rugs, using history of textiles to reflect on the appropriation of visual cultures and forms of exoticism.
The symbolic, erotic, and lunar asparagusby Silvia TomasiThrough Flemish painting, Manet, Max Ernst, Andreas Gursky, and Hannah Levy, we start to believe that the asparagus has feelings too.
