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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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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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