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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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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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