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A 3D dialogue between host Alfredo Aceto, curator Julie Boukobza and CFA’s lateral thinking

by Stefano Pirovano

We met Alfredo Aceto and Julie Boukobza at the dinner party celebrating the artist’s current solo show at Bugada &...

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Richard Feigen: a seminal interview

by Stefano Pirovano

Master art gallery owner Richard Feigen sat down with us to talk about the future of the old masters and...

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Michael Dean

In between language and drugs: Michael Dean + Jac Leirner

by Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes

Two shows that took place in London put accidentally side by side Michael Dean and Jac Leirner. Here is why...

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Musei Vaticani director attacks Matteo Renzi and the Ministry of Culture’s new set of reforms

by Stefano Pirovano

Protest grows in Italy over Minister of culture Dario Franceschini after he officially announced new measures to follow up with...

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”Your work doesn’t look that Scandinavian at all”: an interview with Emanuel Röhss

by Stamatia Dimitrakopoulos

The first time we saw the work of Emanuel Röhss was online, after cruising his immaculate website. Intrigued by his...

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Bosch in Den Bosch: de-attributions made by the BRCP and Prado’s next move

by Stefano Pirovano

“One month after the opening 300.000 tickets have already been sold” proudly announced last Saturday the Het Noordbrabants Museum director...

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At the show with the artist: Kasper Bosmans interprets Sol Lewitt’s code by painting

by Piero Bisello

Our most affectionate readers will by now be accustomed to the magazine’s section called “At The Show With The Artist”...

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Tefaf 2016: USA, UK and China together hold 87% of the art market

by Stefano Pirovano

While the world economy is slowly recovering from the recent turmoil in global markets, and London is getting ready to...

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Adriano Pedrosa and the the MASP: an interview

by Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes

Adriano Pedrosa discuss with CFA his quest to make the MASP multiple, diverse and plural museum. And how to bring...

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Why is African art at the Armory Show so friendly and welcoming?

by Stefano Pirovano

It has taken 8 months to curators Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba to select the 13 galleries participating in the...

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The Met bets on modern and contemporary art, is it too late?

Next 18 March the oppressive building designed almost a century ago by Marcel Breuer on Madison Avenue to host the...

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Arco 35 Anniversary: Madrid is back, Lisbon to follow

by Stefano Pirovano

If seen from the art-world Madrid doesn’t seem the capital of a country that two months after the national elections...

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To be discovered: Jack Lavender and Isaac Lythgoe unpublished textual dose

The pseudoscorpion, – Lasiochernes Pilosus, is a secretive scorpion like insect that makes home in the nests of moles. Before...

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This is my truth about Chinese art: an interview with Zhu Jinshi (with a three-years delay)

by Stefano Pirovano

In Summer of 2012 we travelled around China trying to get a firsthand experience of what at that time was...

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Art damaged by calamities or human stupidity: Friends of Florence awards restorers to save it

by Stefano Pirovano

As any contemporary artist would be honoured to win art awards such as the Turner or the Hugo Boss Prize,...

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Art neolocalism, part II: a beneficial alternative to the supermaket

by Stefano Pirovano

These days, from Paris, the contemporary art world looks dreadfully calm. As calm as someone who is experiencing a tough...

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The good art generates new art: a short story about Alexander Calder’s retrospective at the Tate

by Geoff Hands

Long Ago. Imagine it is 1908 (ten years after Alexander Calder’s birth) and your parents took you to The Art...

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Neolocalism? the Glasgow effect, the Condo Complex and the zero-kilometres art

by Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes

When Ellie Harrison got a £15,000.00 award from Creative Scotland in January 2016 to fund her ‘The Glasgow Effect’ project,...

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Brussels: at Brafa 2016 seeking an art truth (the spectacles of the aggregator)

by Piero Bisello

We have often heard collectors comparing themselves to curators in their activity of selecting artworks. The giant political differences between...

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The Getty pays 30 millions for Gentileschi’s Danae, but the nano Raphael stays in Europe

by Stefano Pirovano

Despite the complex macro-issues affecting the international community at the moment, from the oil price to Donald Trump’s more and...

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In Florence for a very close encounter with the only sculpture Giambologna made for himself

by Stefano Pirovano

Among the many outstanding works of art preserved in the Florentine church called “della Santissima Annunziata” a place of honour...

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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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First results from Pieter Coecke’s Martyr of St Paul tapestry cartoon’s restoration

by Piero Bisello

The impressive number of people involved in the restoration process of tapestry cartoon for the Martyr of St Paul by...

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Giuseppe Iannaccone: comfortably unaffected by trends (an interview)

by Stefano Pirovano

One of the best qualities of Giuseppe Iannaccone, lawyer and experienced art collector, is certainly his cultural awareness. Mr. Iannaccone perfectly...

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I love Aby Warburg’s ideas of re-establishing pathos: an interview with Amie Dicke

by Francesca Verga

Artist Amie Dicke talks about iconography in art, religion and advertisement at her studio in Amsterdam, located in a former...

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Back in 1965: artist Pietro Consagra sheds light on some shamelessly phallic architectural elements

by Stefano Pirovano

Pietro Consagra, an artist no less important than Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri or Fausto Melotti for Post War World II...

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Carlo Portelli: a seminal exhibition retraces his mastership

by Stefano Pirovano

The first comprehensive retrospective exhibition dedicated to Renaissance artist Carlo Portelli opened a few days before Christmas in Florence, at...

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From Bermondsey to South Bermondsey, will artists endure forthcoming gentrification?

by Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes

During the 19th Century, Bermondsey was reputed to be one of the roughest areas in London. Its precarious atmosphere was...

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Domenico Ghirlandaio’s first last supper emerges from 12 years of hibernation

by Stefano Pirovano

After an extremely long restoration process, mainly due to economic problems and bureaucracy, the rarefied Last Supper painted by Domenico...

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A distinct trend in 2015? Old masters’ presence in the room of contemporary art

by Stefano Pirovano

  One of the factors that marked 2015 has been the frequent presence of art from the past centuries in...

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Restorer Umberto Senserini reveals outcome of Piero della Francesca’ Resurrection cleaning

by Antonio Carnevale

The “Resurrection”, the mural painting preserved in the Museo Civico of Sansepolcro, is one of Piero della Francesca’s masterpieces. Giorgio...

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