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‘I have zero interest in being part of good taste culture’: an interview with Lucy McKenzie

by Henry Andersen

In the painted works of Lucy McKenzie, the artist delves deeply into surfaces. At a formal level, her use of...

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Art Basel Miami Beach 2015, the Noah Horowitz edition: a synoptic diary

by Stamatia Dimitrakopoulos

  Day 1. It’s Tuesday December 1st and we just checked into the hotel that for the next four days...

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Recto Verso at the Fondazione Prada: a semipolitical reading

by Stefano Pirovano

In a post-Expo and fashion-oriented city such as Milan setting up an exhibition which questions the B-side of two dimensional...

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Peeking into the unwritten future of contemporary art galleries’ depots

by Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes

As reported by Cfa, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen was recently granted permission from the Rotterdam City Council to construct...

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Once upon a time in Palermo, when Islam and Christianity were walking side by side

by Antonio Carnevale

Violence, murders, slaughters of innocent people, but also monuments and works of art, especially in Palmira, destroyed by human hands,...

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Interview: what do you know about art collector Jeff Koons?

by Stefano Pirovano

  We reached the most celebrated living artist of the world at the phone on 14th September, a week before...

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Venice Biennale the day after: how All The World’s Futures affect local future

by Piero Bisello

The 56th Venice Biennale of Art closed its doors yesterday with the traditional final conference in which the attendance data...

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Andrea Del Sarto prised at the Frick but his masterpiece is yet to be discovered

by Antonio Carnevale

It is a moment of international glory for Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530), important Italian Renaissance painter, master of renown artists...

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What makes one’s liking come? Clara Thomine asks in her first solo show

by Piero Bisello

Do you like me or not? Whether you do or not depends, in countless instances, whether I meet you halfway,...

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Museums reopened in Paris after terrorist attacks

by Stefano Pirovano

Last night we were in front of Le Carillon paying tribute to the victims of Friday’s terrorist attacks when panic started...

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Paris Tableau 2015, a sensual option for the lateral art collector

by Stefano Pirovano

A naked young man in perfect shape (Bacchus) stares at a glowing almost naked woman whose head is expressing a...

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Andrea Romano’ see-through doors at Gaudel de Stampa: “pure and autobiographical”

by Stefano Pirovano

Thin sheets of grey slate hand-sewn to generate mysterious cocoons. Neon lights wall drawings magnifying details from “The Flintstones”, the...

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Boijmans Public Depo project approved: how will art collectors respond to its revolution?

by Stefano Pirovano

Last Wednesday the Rotterdam City Council announced that the new deposit needed by the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen to store...

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58 out 77 lots of Taubman’s collection were bought at Sotheby’s: but all the top pieces came from art dealers

by Stefano Pirovano

The first of the four auctions of former Sotheby’s owner Alfred Taubman’s art collection ended less the 48 hours ago, but...

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Urban Zellweger: his first interview was on a lovely sunny day

by Francesca di Nardo

The system of shapes of Urban Zellweger relies on colours and foggy atmospheres, taking the way of imagination and dreams

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Art collector Luigi Magnani: “I am not friend with antique dealers, I don’t attend auctions, I don’t visit exhibitions”

by Antonio Carnevale

The Family of the Infante Don Luis (1783-84), a core work in Goya’s production currently on show at the National...

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New York: the missed Donatello’ is likely not alone

by Stefano Pirovano

This afternoon, at Moretti Fine Arts in New York, the lost wooden Spiritello that experts have recently attributed to Donatello...

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At the show with the artist: Marina Rheingantz visited Concrete Cuba at David Zwirner

by Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes

Marina Rheingantz (b. 1983) is a Brazilian artist based in Sao Paulo and represented by Galeria Fortes Vilaca. She is one...

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The day after 200.000 people attended Frieze and Fiac someone have to make a decision

by Stefano Pirovano

Today is the day of evaluation in Paris. The second half of the most crucial period of the year for European...

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London vs Paris: 60 portraits by Goya reply to the Medicis’ epiphany at the Jacquemart André

by Stefano Pirovano

The match between Frieze’s art fairs and the Fiac is not the only one London and Paris are playing at the moment,...

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Is Frieze London putting pressure on emerging art?

by Stefano Pirovano

Two days after London not-only-contemporary-anymore art week closed its doors the general consensus among galleries focused on emerging art that...

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On some forgotten photos of Andy Warhol and his legacy as an art collector

by Antonio Carnevale

In 1977 Aurelio Amendola is a 30-year-old photographer fond of portraying artists. He has already captured Marino Marini and Giorgio...

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Frieze Masters 2015: a large scale process of understanding is taking place

by Stefano Pirovano

While we are writing this article a meeting of Frieze Masters’ board is taking place in loco to discuss about...

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Interview: Miguel and Vera Chaia tell why their art collection looks like a lighthouse

by Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes

Miguel Chaia is a Sociologist, a teacher of Social Sciences at PUC-SP (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo), an editor...

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‘I keep on bringing objects from one place to another’: Rodrigo Matheus solo show at Ibid. London

by Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes

As we arrive to visit Rodrigo Matheus at Ibid. London, we find him in the process of installing One –...

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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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At the show with the artist: Peppi Bottrop visits “Mondrian. The Line” at Martin Gropius Bau

by Peppi Bottrop

Away from nature ………………giveme…….CMYK Through the darkness ……………………………CMYK No bread (i can´t) ……………………………CMYK WHERE ARE THE LINES I WANNA SEE...

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Art in novels: “The Illogic of Kassel”, aka the Avant-Garde’s decline, by Enrique Vila-Matas

by Antonio Carnevale

The critic is alive. The critic is dead. Around the status of the art critic there is an endless debate,...

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An interview with Hans-Adam II Prince of Liechtenstein

by Stefano Pirovano

Prince of Liechtenstein Hans-Adam II talks about his approach to art collecting and gives some insight about Ginevra Benci portrait...

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“I think art is more powerful as a poisoned Kool-Aid”: an interview with Bradford Kessler

by Piero Bisello

We first came across the art of Bradford Kessler with a video he made in 2011 of a “Beetlejuiced” Charles...

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BIAF 2015 places Koons near Michelangelo promising Florence a new Renaissance

by Stefano Pirovano

The opening days have proved that this year the Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato in Florence has finally become a top event...

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