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Simon Denny shows us how to still believe in the Venice Biennale despite its controversies

by Pero Bisello

After exactly a month from its opening, the feeling is that this year Venice Biennale has been in the news...

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A 500 year old proto-museum run by an art-advisor: the case of polymath Jacopo Strada

It is recent news that Qatar intends to reconvert an enormous flour mill on the waterfront of Doha Bay into...

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How auctions have been shaping the emerging art scene

It is a matter of fact that the generation of artists born during the Eighties is the first one in...

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Dai Visconti agli Sforza, Roberto Longhi re-loaded: but where did he fail?

Among the recent victims, or maybe the chosen ones, of what we may call the-re-enacted-reality-pattern we ought to add the...

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Brussels art “Un-Scene” at WIELS’ third emerging artists summit

Out of an understandable need to delve into artistic practices based around the corner, the most internationally famous art space...

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Q&A with Rodrigo Cass: the inverse of the reverse is the right side

We firstly bump into pieces by Rodrigo Cass a few months ago in Doha, while visiting a group show conceived...

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Last attribution to Donatello suffering local jealousy in Padua

The two meters high poplar wood made crucifixion in the Church of Santa Maria dei Servi in Padua was attributed...

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At Turner Prize 2015 Surrealists root for Nicole Wermers

Turner Prize 2015 short-list that was announced last week proved the fact that, during the times we are going through, the need...

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Frescos by Moretto discovered in Milan following the form&info pattern

Until some weeks ago, when aspiring art historian Federico Giani had the opportunity to scrutinise the documents preserved in the...

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At NY art week’s auctions: masters fly, youngsters resist, Bonami stumbles

12th May, the Sotheby’s auction opening the contemporary art week in New York started off with a bang: Mark Bradford...

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In dialogue with Maria Papadimitriou and the magical Greek Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2015

One of the most discussed national participations at the Giardini during the 56th Venice Biennial is the Greek Pavilion: why...

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Accademia Carrara in Bergamo quietly reopened: the victory of good taste

    After seven years of restoration, the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, one of the most important art galleries in...

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Venice Biennale 2015: at Corderie it’s about time to reactivate the selling office

  At the gate of the international exhibition at the Corderie an ambitious introductory text informs the general public and collectors...

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Venice Biennale 2015, international pavilion: this is the end, my only friend

The first room of the International pavilion at the Giardini is dedicated to a problematic and quite unexpected word to...

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Venice Biennale 2015: is this the best edition of the new millennium?

Eight hours spent visiting the national pavilions at the Giardini have convinced us that the edition 2015 of the Venice...

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In dialogue with collector Alain Servais and the hope of a more regulated art market

Collector Alain Servais has become somewhat of a public figure for his notable openness and active engagement in the issues...

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The new Fondazione Prada opens, with a potential political action

“This is a collection of spaces” claimed Rem Koolhaas a few hours ago while presenting to the international press the...

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Why there is no Qatar pavilion at the Venice Biennale yet?

Rome wasn’t built in a day. Despite the conspicuous investments in visual arts that Doha has made during the last...

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An old trick that never fails: space production from Raphael to Gober

  At the moment there is no definition for that kind of three-dimension artworks conceived to directly involve architecture or,...

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The essence of Art Brussels 2015 in 14 moves

For those based in the Belgian capital, the week of Art Brussels comes with the excitement and inevitable stress of...

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At the show with the artist: Jannis Varelas on Titian’s Nymph and Shepherd

In occasion of a recent trip to Vienna we arranged a meeting with Los Angeles and Wien based artist Jannis...

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In dialogue with Valeria Napoleone and the bright side of emerging art

If you are worried about the future of young artists and you need to find relief from the aggressive strategies...

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Siri Hustvedt’ “The Blazing world”: a generous art novel dedicated to masks and undervalued artists

by Stefano Pirovano

To be added to the list of 25 art novels that we published a few months ago in response to...

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At the show with the artist: Jimmie Durham’s guide to Venice, soon at the Querini Stampalia

…for example, you most likely think I will be critical of the idea of tourists. In truth I have sympathy...

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Form and content can still be relevant words in painting: Theodora Allen’s Plot, No.4

  In his 1936 political essay titled “The Author as Producer”, Walter Benjamin dismisses the debate between form and content...

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Darja Bajagic: from ROOM EAST to Croy Nielsen with the blessings of John Waters

Darja Bajagic, born in 1990 in Titograd (ex Yugoslavia), graduated at the Yale School of Art in 2014 and now...

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Phillips and Francesco Bonami present first auction of Italian art to take place in NY

It is going to be Phillips the first auction house to organize in New York a selling entirely dedicated to...

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Can’t you choose between Sp Arte, Art Dallas and MiArt? Question 400-year-old dealer Daniel Nijs

  Today more than ever art fairs are the ultimate celebration of the art market and dealers. In the occasion...

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Proustian questions to Lucas Blalock

by Stefano Pirovano

Asked whether he thought his photographs should make people laugh, Lucas Blalock mentioned the films by Buster Keaton as an...

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Artist as collector: on show at the Barbican the difference between cultural and object values

  It always seems better when collections, especially in the context of public museums, are displayed in a way enhancing...

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Will the City of Rotterdam make the world’s first Public Art Depot real?

Next May the City of Rotterdam will decide whether the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen‘s new storage building project will be...

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