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David Freedberg: “the days of scholarship for its own sake are over”

by Stefano Pirovano

Will the Warburg Institute be the the greatest centre for the study of cultural history, images and art in the...

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In the day of Tsipras’ victory what is better than peeping into the blossoming of Greek art residencies?

by Stamatia Dimitrakopoulos

In the midst of a political and economical crisis that keeps aggravating day by day, people in Greece feel the...

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Is really Giotto we are looking at?

by Antonio Carnevale

e've been to Palazzo Reale in Milan to visit the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to Giotto. But the way the...

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When Nicolas Party met Giotto (an interview)

by Stefano Pirovano

We sat down with Nicolas Party to discuss with him about Giotto, in occasion of the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated...

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September auctions expected to open the door for latecomers and forerunners

by Stefano Pirovano

Apparently the recent turmoil in financial markets due to China’s weakness is only partially affecting the huge amount of liquidity...

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At the show with the killer: American Psycho visits George Stubbs’ mini-show at the Met

There is old money and new money and new money can buy old money. Patrick Bateman, the protagonist of acclaimed 1980s...

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Interview: Anke Weyer about that “constant crisis management” called painting

Along with the contemporary art fair taking place in April, the Brussels gallery weekend in September is with no doubt...

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Interview: Richard Knight explains new joint venture with Fabrizio Moretti

“I very very much hope my relation with Fabrizio Moretti is going to be a productive one” said to Cfa...

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With Laura Biagiotti visiting her private collection of futurist Giacomo Balla

Not far from Rome, just half an hour by car, in the Comune of Guidonia Montecelio, there is a elegant...

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That ancient Greek Slave who Hiram Powers turned young through a chain

  Copying styles or interpreting themes coming from Ancient Greece has been the business of countless artists for the last...

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Italian reforms: a recent law may open a new era for quality architecture

  A new important revolution is silently taking place with regards to how the Italian Government and its Ministry of...

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500 years anniversary of Hieronymus Bosch’ death calls for this rare writing by Dino Buzzati

With a meaningful “Welcome home, Jheronimus!”, the Jheronimus Bosch 500 Foundation (JB500) announces the return of a large part of...

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10 more options to substitute the coercive Autumn art fairs’ agenda

Starting from next Friday – when the Zurich art weekend is going to open – and until the next edition...

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10 upcoming museum exhibitions to substitute the coercive Autumn art fairs’ agenda

Autumn will come soon and the art institutions all over the world are getting ready to fulfill the scene with...

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20 Italian top museums’ new directors announced: where is the bug?

by Stefano Pirovano

A new page is about to be written in the history of Italian museums. But politics is still around and...

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A relevant debate on the Italian cultural heritage’s new reforms is about to happen

Tomorrow at 6.30 pm the mayor of Florence Dario Nardella meets art dealer and collector Fabrizio Moretti at La Versiliana...

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At the show with the artist: writer Chiara Zocchi visits Thomas Hirschhorn in Sardinia

When images enter our sight, quickly, they don’t destroy themselves after being used. Our involuntary memory cuts, pairs and pastes...

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The Lost Museum at the Bode: info keeps alive what war once killed

He detested violence, yet welcomed the cataclysms that flung fresh works of art onto the market. “Wars, pogroms and revolutions”,...

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Art in novels: Utz, by Bruce Chatwin

by Stefano Pirovano

Do images demand their own destruction? Here is what Bruce Chatwin and Kaspar Utz has to tell us about art...

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Arts and Foods: finally a seminal show in Milan (that was not that expensive)

Expo 2015’s largest exhibition, focused on how arts have been coupled with foods during the last 150 years, has been...

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Focus on Brazil: in the long term Eliseu Visconti wins if Europe makes war

Almost unknown to Italian art historians, despite he was born near Salerno – precisely in Giffoni Valle Piana –, Eliseo...

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At Pivô in Saõ Paulo a new programme to refresh Brazilian art godfathers

If living in the yet-to-be-completed European Union sometimes makes you think that having a long history behind could be a very serious...

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Museu de Arte de São Paulo inspects its former director Pietro Maria Bardi

“A new museum has been created in Brazil. This is a limitless, undiscovered country, whose impenetrable forests and great rivers...

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Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and Federico Herrero: around space and through painting

Despite most of the art professionals are still recovering from Art Basel and the Petrobras scandal is still in the...

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Focus on Brazil: new Rocinha’s literary café is waiting for your art books

Rocinha is known as the main favela of Rio de Janeiro, and apparently also the most populated of the entire...

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Fine art collector Jeff Koons to inaugurate the BIAF in Florence: isn’t it smart?

Last night, in a glorious Milanese restaurant, the upcoming edition of the Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato di Firenze was presented to a selected...

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Schaulager: the first public depo is finally fully operational

Visitors of the first extensive overview in 30 years of the Emanuel Hoffmann family collection are not allowed to take...

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Duccio and Sir Anthony Caro handling the same space, currently at the National Gallery

We had asked a security guard where the ‘Art in Dialogue’ exhibit was situated, as it is a temporary arrangement....

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At Art Basel 2015 being young is deadly expensive

  The sun shines bright on Art Basel also this year, and the quantitative easing in US and Europe is certainly...

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Art Basel week 2015 starts at Liste with two promises: Flora Hauser and Olga Balema

When yesterday at 4.45 pm we entered the 20th edition of Liste Art Fair in Basel it was raining and...

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At Musée d’Orsay Pierre Bonnard and Marthe fall in love again with a bathtub called abstraction

by Stefano Pirovano

Most of the times, and especially when dedicated to painting, retrospective exhibitions are not just a way to re-enact the...

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