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Rome, #quadriennale2016: the best map of the Italian contemporary art is still too lazy

by Stefano Pirovano

N Rome. Eight years after the last edition took place – in 2012 a book was published as a substitute...

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Data culture or data for culture? What survey metrics in decision-making can and can’t do for the arts

by Piero Bisello

There has been recent media coverage for a test in which Arts Council England (ACE) experimented a set of standardised...

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Six comforting steps to cover the London contemporary art week

by Stefano Pirovano

Yesterday we heard a couple of Swiss collectors complaining about the fact the Regent’s park’s art fair had released too...

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Interview: Malta Campos, one of the only 3 painters invited at the SP Biennial (out of 87 artists!)

by Maria do Carmo de Pontes

Antonio Malta Campos (São Paulo, 1961, where he lives and works) started to produce oil paintings soon after being accepted...

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London: Collezione Maramotti, Moretti Fine Art and an opportunity named Atelier dell’Errore

by Stefano Pirovano

  Luca Santiago Mora is a slim man in his forties, or fifties. We met him a few months ago...

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Michael Rey at ZERO… gallery: “The uncanny is not something you can produce at will”

We had never visited his studio, met him in person, or read any article about him before. When a few...

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Willem de Kooning, Cross-Legged Figure, 1972.

Hiltiland, where dreams come true

by Stefano Pirovano

President of Hilti Art Foundation Michael Hilti sits down with CFA to discuss about the strategy behind his family's extraordinary...

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At a crowded Berlin art week Anne Imhof converts Angst into hope

by Stefano Pirovano

The only detail that didn’t work last Wednesday night at the Hamburger Bahnhof was a sign placed on the welcoming...

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Biennale des Antiquaires’ last edition: for Paris it is a new beginning

by Stefano Pirovano

  “Some wealthy people like mega yachts, some others prefer to build their own art museum” told yesterday to CFA...

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A curator is born: a look at Kenya’s first curator’s workshop

by Zihan Kassam

Until recently, the number of curators in Kenya could be counted on one hand. Two, if you were kind. The...

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At the show with the artist: Claudia Losi visits Pontormo, with some lenses and a sentimental guide

by Stefano Pirovano, Claudia Losi and Mauro Sargiani

The 25th talent contributing to our section “At the show with the artist”, a section inspired by the seminal group...

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Late Summer’s healthy practices: put these three museums of Stockholm on your art agenda

by Maria do Carmo de Pontes

Being one of the wealthiest cities in the world, it is unsurprising that Stockholm boosts an exciting cultural life. From...

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11 smart moves to access the coming contemporary art cycle

by Stefano Pirovano

A new contemporary art season is coming, and hopefully the art writers will have soon better topics to write about...

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Barbara Hepworth Museum, please touch me!

by Geoff Hands

To reference a northern English expression, an anonymous ‘cheeky little monkey’ had attached a cartoon chimpanzee sticker to the figure...

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At the show with the artist: Brendan Michal Heshka’s psycho psychoanalysis of the Fin-De-Siècle Museum

by Piero Bisello and Brendan Michal Heshka

We came across the work of Canadian artist Brendan Michal Heshka in Brussels at the independent art fair Poppositions last...

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Georgia O’Keeffe at the new Tate: the unexplored about women that only a woman can explore

by Geoff Hands

It’s a hot summer’s day in London; looking up at the surrounding high rise buildings, including the new £260m extension...

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C.Ar.D plus Vigoleno: healthy remedy for the lifeless tourism and white cubes

by Stefano Pirovano

Tourists visiting Italy are generally well aware of Tuscany, Umbria, or Marche. They are familiar with their beautiful hilly landscape,...

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Is Art Basel planning to invade the online sales’ territories?

by Stefano Pirovano

A few days ago MCH group, the 100-year-old international live marketing company owning Art Basel, officially announced the acquisition of...

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How Italians got crazy over Christo’s floating piers and ignored Bellini’s 500 years anniversary

by Piero Bisello

2016 marks five hundred years since the death of Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini, the seminal artist who embodied the transition...

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To be discovered: Catherine Biocca and her flirtation with violence

by Stefano Pirovano

Most of the many experienced observers who visited the last edition of Liste art fair in Basel may have noticed...

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World’s growing “uncertainty” staged soon at the SP Biennial with some visual and sexual doubts

by Maria do Carmo de Pontes

A spectre is haunting the world – the spectre of uncertainty. 2016 may enter history not just because of the...

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The Tate Britain Commission: Pablo Bronstein and the art of being a viewer

by Geoff Hands

Tate Britain, the oldest of the four Tate Galleries, still resonates as a Temple for Art, with a grand porticoed...

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Who of these two men will finally turn Milan into an international art capital?

by Stefano Pirovano

Concerning culture, Milan is no longer the listless city it used to be during the period that went from the beginning...

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Art Basel 2016: a positive reaction to the impossible Brexit

by Stefano Pirovano

It’s raining in Basel, like last year, and British people, the second art market in the world by value, will...

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Restorers rejuvenate Filippo Lippi’s pivotal Martelli Annunciation

by Stefano Pirovano

Florence. The solemn annunciation executed by Filippo Lippi around 1440 for the Martelli Chapel in the Church of Saint Lawrence was...

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Berlin Biennale 2016: last goodbye to the prematurely dead post-internet label

by Piero Bisello

It was two years of scepticism about Berlin Biennale 2016, or at least since the announcement that collective DIS would...

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Rome: does Parmigianino’ Man with a book remind you of any contemporary art dealer?

by Stefano Pirovano

None of the contemporary art people that we met last week in Rome, where we went to attend an engaging...

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#SITElines2016: a multi branch curatorial tree is ready to bloom in New Mexico

by Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes

Established at first as a biennial exhibition programme and shortly afterwards as an all year-round institution dedicated to fostering contemporary...

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Mantua Italian capital of culture 2016: even Mantegna would be proud of it

by Alessandra Marelli

Since April Mantua has officially started its year as the Italian Capital of Culture 2016, a recognition that was appointed...

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Mona Hatoum at the Tate Modern: are female artists saving the future of contemporary art?

by Geoff Hands

Linda Nochlin, the originator of feminist art history, once asked the thorny question (to men, at least): “Why have there...

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The Isabel of Aragona’s miracle of the roses and the art market’s money dilemma

by Alessandra Marelli

While also some pivotal international players have started to question the many crucial problems affecting the opaque structures of the...

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