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Alexandru Chira and the inhabitable artistic edifice

by Georgiana But

Alexandru Chira used drawing to build an articulated architecture for signification, intended for spiritual habitation

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totalsilver Medium, 2023. Oil on canvas, 30 x 36 in. Courtesy of the artist and Theta, New York.

Kelsey Isaacs: synthesizing the layers of a plastic sun

by Joel Dean

Kelsey Isaacs reverses the banal glow of a simulated world into bright, meticulous paintings to reflect an increasingly paradoxical reality

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Arte Povera: six documentaries (part one)

by Francisca Parrino & Stefano Pirovano

The stars of Arte Povera portrayed in six documentaries, available for streaming thanks to a review curated in collaboration with...

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"Mihrdukht Aims her Arrow at the Ring," Folio from the Hamzanama (The Adventures of Hamza) Basawan (Indian, active ca. 1556–1600) ca. 1570 Country of Origin India Opaque color and gold on cotton cloth 67.8 x 52 cm Howard Hodgkin Collection, Purchase, The Mossavar- Rahmani Fund for Iranian Art, 2022 2022.170

The Howard Hodgkin collection of Indian court paintings

by Marta Galli

Howard Hodgkin approach to collecting had nothing to do with art history. What mattered to him was how each piece...

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Painting genealogy with Gritli Faulhaber

by Dara Jochum

In an attempt to resist the coercion of style, Gritli Faulhaber discusses painting through painting to rethink the medium's history

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Pittore lombardo dell’ottavo decennio del sec. XV, dal Maestro della Madonna Cagnola (Zanetto Bugatto): Adorazione del Bambino con due donatori, Santa Caterina martire, San Girolamo, San Giovanni battista, Sant’Ambrogio, San Bernardo da Chiaravalle, una santa e Annunciazione. Sormano (Como), Santa Maria del Sasso a Dicinisio.

How Lombardy met Northern Europe through Alessandro Sforza and Zanetto Bugatto*

by Federico Cavalieri (from Nuovi Studi 27, 2022-2023 anno XXVII-XXVIII)

Zanetto Bugatto sheds light on the appreciation for Flemish artists emerged in Milan after mid-XV cent

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Laura De Jonckheere, an interview

by Piero Bisello

We sat down with Laura De Jonckheere, second-generation old masters gallerist, to bring antiques to the next generation

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Exhibition view of 唐 (Tang), from 25/01 to 23/02/2024 at CFAlive, Milan. Earthenware Tang dynasty sculptures on dedicated dedicated plinth by Concorde. Courtesy of Concorde, Galleria Ajassa and CFAlive. Ph: Andrea Rossetti.

Tang Dynasty, a Chinese renaissance

by Ma Sen

Tang dynasty was the cradle of Chinese civilisation, which grew through a strong economic expansion, that was also cultural one*

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Giovanni di Paolo (Italian, 1403-1482), Branchini Madonna, 1427. Tempera and gold leaf on panel. The Norton Simon Foundation © Norton Simon Art Foundation

Norton Simon: an American artist visits LA’s crown jewel

by Daniel Graham Loxton*

An essential introduction to Norton Simon, masterful art collector during America’s mid-century cultural emergence

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Romeo Gomez Lopez, Cold-pac (AMLO) 2023 silicon, latex, fabric, wood, acrylic, headphones, audio track, led lights 75 x 55 x 25 cm 29.5 x 21.6 x 9.8 in. Courtesy of the artist.

Romeo Gómez López: critique of a conservatory nature

by Samantha Ozer

Working across media, artist Romeo Gómez López approaches culture with erotic vision and unexpected parallels

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NG752: Lippo di Dalmasio, The Madonna of Humility, about 1390 © The National Gallery, London.

Lippo di Dalmasio: pop without knowing it

by Carlo Prada

Lippo di Dalmasio degli Scannabecchi painted in series, signed his works and was a self-promoter, like the masters of the...

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Armin Lorenz Gerold: The city unfolds in sound

by Dara Jochum

By using text, alongside sculpture, video, and installation Armin Lorenz Gerold seeks not just to make sound visible, but to...

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Peggy Franck: breath slowly

by Stefano Pirovano

With Peggy Franck and existence in the process of defining identity that we feed by working, or by expanding painting

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Room #3 (Fischli, João, Coltorti, d’Orgeval)

by Antonio de Martino

Claudio Coltorti, Martin d’Orgeval, Gina Fischli and Francesco Joao create an hangover scenario, trying to paste together all that happened...

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Traveling for the Master of the Corsi Crucifixion

by Carlo Prada

An itinerary that starts with the Master of the Corsi Crucifixion and leads to an important series of Giottesque crucifixes

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Lotte Andersen and the forces that lead us through history

by Samantha Ozer

Lotte Andersen questions cultural symbols that normalise past narratives of identity, power, oppression and privilege

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Daniel Graham Loxton on Aelbert Cuyp at The Metropolitan Museum

by Daniel Graham Loxton

At the show with the artist: Daniel Graham Loxton visits the Dutch Masters at The Met and meets Aelbert Cuyp,...

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Guillaume Dénervaud: as beautiful as post-apocalyptic can be

by Samuel Haitz

Guillaume Dénervaud forms a delicate interpretation of a post-apocalyptic scenery, managing the effects of our carelessness towards our environment

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Bartolomeo Cavarozzi

A Spanish copper by Bartolomeo Cavarozzi

by Giuseppe Porzio (from Nuovi Studi 26, 2021 anno XXVI)

A hitherto anonymous and unpublished copper painting offers new evidence of Bartolomeo Cavarozzi's stay in Spain

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Nevine Mahmoud,

Nevine Mahmoud: the implications of pleasure

by Niccolò Gravina

The heart of the practice of Nevine Mahmoud is the expressive recreation of a symbolic process which takes shape in...

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Maren Karlson: effects and defects

by Stefano Pirovano

Maren Karlson studies continuity between human being and environment, science and spirituality, individual and collective body

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Hanne Lippard: “The mouth is always my favourite medium”

by Lilou Vidal

A portrait of Hanne Lippard, an artist whose text- and performance-based work reveals the emotional and political values ​​of semantics

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Alexandra Metcalf and the totalities of current life

by Piero Bisello

A take on the recent artworks by New York-based Alexandra Metcalf: the crafts, the themes, the feels, the wonders

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Laura Langer: coordinates, constellations, corporeality

by Luzie Meyer

Both in its formal explorations and in its content matter, the work of Laura Langer, like that of a poet,...

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Doris Guo: traces of people, places, and politics

by Victoria Durnak

From the relationship between mother and daughter to Sino-American culture, which Doris Guo resolves with the grace of the concept

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Rediscovered Belisarius: a work by Legnanino for Prince of Carignano

by Luca Fiorentino (from Nuovi Studi 26, 2021 anno XXVI)

A large canvas by Legnanino representing Roman leader Belisarius has recently been discovered in a private collection

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Institutional negotiations: on the art of Daniel de Paula

by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti

Societal commentary permeates the neo-conceptualism of Brazilian artist Daniel de Paula, evoking art's potential in the polis of today

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On artist, psychiatrist, and collector Roman Buxbaum (and Miroslav Tichý)

by Céline Mathieu

A portrait of Roman Buxbaum, initiator of the Tichy Ocean Foundation in Zurich and custodian of the Artists for Tichy...

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Robbie Fitzpatrick (on Basel Social Club)

by CFArts

We sat down with Robbie Fitzpatrick, co-founder of the Fitzpatrick Gallery and initiator of the Basel Social Club

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Cosimo Rosselli

The sleeping enigma of the Arundel Pietà by Cosimo Rosselli

by Davide Civettini (from Nuovi Studi 26, 2021 anno XXVI)

In the castle of the Dukes of Norfolk, one of the greatest enigmas of the Florentine Quattrocento lives: a Pietà...

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Achraf Touloub: paintings as facts of themselves

by William Kherbek

Breaking lines and signs, saying the opposite of what it seems: an introduction to the paintings of Achraf Touloub

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