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Restoration of “Alchemy” reveals the truth about Jackson Pollock

by Antonio Carnevale

Alchemy, Jackson Pollock's masterpiece, went under restoration. Here is what was discovered about Jack the dripper during the process.

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Cultural decentralisation: collector Rosetta Barabino celebrated at Villa Croce (with a writing by Gian Enzo Sperone)

  Everybody agrees that the same glass of Vermentino wine has a different taste when sipped in Genoa, instead of London,...

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56° Venice Biennial: the impossible dialogue between Karl Marx and the Azerbaijan’s pavilion

The Republic of Azerbaijan is among the nations officially taking part in what will certainly be remembered as the most...

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Piero di Cosimo’s ecological fire: a key for his giant retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in Washington

  There is always a morbid pleasure in speculating about the reasons why an artist made a particular decision in...

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Interview: Rijksmusem’s head of exhibition Tim Zeedijk

Reopened to the public on 13 April 2013, after a ten-year renovation managed by architecture firm Cruz y Ortiz and...

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TEFAF 2015: the kingdom of slow-art lasts 10 days

One significant difference between The Europen Fine Art Fair and its competitors focused on modern and contemporary art is that...

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TEFAF 2015: 7000 years of contemporary art

      The European Fine Art fair is at the moment the most influential art and antiques event in...

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Cultural decentralisation: engaging with the Towner’s non-elitist approach

Rather than travelling on a swifter inland route along the Sussex coast from Brighton to Eastbourne, we took the coastal...

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Gauguin’ show at Fondation Beyeler: “Beware of luxury!” Paul said

To the Fondation Beyeler’s curatorial staff it took six years of hard work and sophisticated diplomacy to realize what will...

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The Sultan’s World according to Renaissance Art: at BOZAR Europe welcomes the Ottomans

“The Sultan’s World, The Ottoman Orient in Renaissance Art” is a very accurate exhibition handling a subject – the representation...

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The smallest Armory Show in many years looks at warm countries

  New York is like a big pond of mud and today, Thursday, the temperature is -6C. We are pretty...

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Rodrigo Matheus’ socially oriented art soon at Fortes Vilaça and Ibid.

In the realm of the object based-art, that is a specific kind of art derived from Duchamp and generally generated...

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Focus on Qatar: an interview with Emin Balcıoglu

Conceptual Fine Arts sat down with the meta-curator who is behind Doha's museums blossoming and cultural strategy.

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Acropolis Museum

At the show with the artist: Allyson Vieira experiences the Acropolis Museum

Athens, August 2007: the Acropolis Museum was not yet completed. The sun broiled the sky, cloudless, but hazy with trapped...

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Hauser & Wirth Somerset

Pipilotti Rist at Hauser&Wirth Somerset: are you looking for ways to decentralise culture?

Returning to Hauser & Wirth Somerset for a second time (our first visit was reported on CFA six months ago)...

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Focus on Qatar: not only sumptuous museums, at Al Zubarah also serious archaeology

Located on the north-western coast of Qatar, about 100km from its capital Doha, Al Zubarah Archeological Site is a fine...

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Finissage interview with Holly Hendry at Bosse&Baum (minimally monumental?)

One of the most significant effects deriving from the “return to order” that has characterized the recent best art production...

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A new gallery designed by Kuehn Malvezzi respects the rule: take a step back

Art, especially New Art, needs time and space to be developed and displayed. With this idea in mind, in the...

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Interview with Johann Kraeftner to learn about the Prince Hans Adam II revolution at the Liechtenstein Museum

When in April 2013 Hans Adam II Prince of Liechtenstein reopened to the public the Liechtenstein City Palace in Vienna, after...

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At the Secession artwork and poetry clinch in Ugo Rondinone’s ring

“Poets and artists express a view of the world as a collage of passing fragments, there is no bigger picture...

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Focus on Qatar: the first step is to discover the “Here and There” scheme

Out of our list of the nine main art institutions due to open in the next five years, two of...

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Is this “Owl’s Nest” the Hieronymus Bosch’s self-portrait that we desire?

In our recent review about the exhibition ‘The Shell’ at Almine Rech Gallery, we stressed the importance of art as...

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Last day for visting Almine Rech’s seminal parody of the artscape

French gallerist Almine Rech’s private life has been circulating quite freely online especially after an extensive reportage about her published...

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Alberto Burri’s centenary exhibition cancelled by Charlie Hebdo

When Fondazione Burri sent us the notification about an exhibition of the post-war Italian master Alberto Burri at the European...

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Chantal Joffe’s people at The Jerwood Gallery, or how international art can work so locally

On first entering the Jerwood Gallery, we are confronted by a large (over life-size) oil painting of a naked man....

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In dialogue with Jean-Baptiste Bernadet (currently at Valentin Gallery, Paris)

French born and Brussels based artist Jean-Baptiste Bernadet is arguably one of the most popular painters of his generation at...

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In dialogue with Clino Trini Castelli and the no-form side of creativity

by Stefano Pirovano

We sat down with Clino Trini Castelli, the friend of Arte Povera artists who invented the no-form design (years before...

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Will the artist-as-a-researcher save contemporary art galleries’ analog future?

Critical discourse about the artist as researcher has been around in Europe at least since the implementation of Bologna process...

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Sotheby’s Masters Week in NY beyond expectation, also thanks to an Italian dealer and philantropist

Sotheby’s annual Masters Week sales in New York has been a success, even greater than what we expected. The four...

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The Hooper Projects: a few steps away from Skid Row hustlers and artists are trying to make it happen

While New York’s aggression keeps squeezing the artists who are trying hard to find space, money and time in order...

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Sanya Kantarovsky: narrative snapshots for bigger plots (currently at Marc Foxx)

  During our interviews with artists, we often ask them to name a novel that would be comparable to their...

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