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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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Tomorrow at Sotheby’s NY an auction that hardly will be forgotten

As art dealer and collector Fabrizio Moretti declares in the piercing video interview given to Edoardo Roberti, Sotheby’s Old Masters...

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Don’t touch: Surface Value? Pennacchio Argentato, May Hands and the Sansevero Chapel in Naples

by Stefano Pirovano

A brief but highly rewarding, and thought provoking, weekend visit to Naples for a pair of exhibitions from Gallery T293...

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A unique MOCA to remind Alexis Tsipras that not all the oligarchs are the same

We don’t know whether Basil and Elise Goulandris would have been happy or not about the resounding Syryza’s victory in Greece,...

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The miracle of Santa Maria presso San Celso in Milan

The sanctuary of Santa Maria presso San Celso is a beautiful church hidden behind a wall, and if you walk by...

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What is the price to pay to have priceless artworks?

  The amount of information related to art is increasing enormously, thus becoming extraordinary persistent, and actually accessible, if compared...

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Los Angeles and NYC to host Andrea del Sarto’s first show in the US (but Lucrezia is not welcome)

Among this year’s most awaited exhibitions there is the one dedicated to the Florentine late Renaissance master Andrea del Sarto,...

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At the show with the artist: Utagawa Hiroshige’s exhibition in Venice visited by Veronica de Giovannelli

We came across the work of young painter Veronica De Giovanelli during a recent trip to Venice, Italy. She is...

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Weekend tips: Château Vaux le Vicomte and the instructive story of its wealthy founder

A visit to the astonishing Château Vaux le Vicomte, approximately one hour driving from Paris, is not just a way...

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First Hammershøi’s in a public Dutch collection soon at the Boijmans (escorted by Richter and Gober)

As we wrote a few months ago in occasion of our visit to the museum, the Boijmans Van Beuningen in...

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The seminal meeting in which Carol Bove kissed master Carlo Scarpa

Half based on isolation, both temporal and spatial, of certain poetic objects such as books, shells, drift woods or peacock...

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Vera Kox soon at Duve: when the matter is what really matters

  The opening of Vera Kox exhibition next Friday at Duve, Berlin (in duo with Manor Grunewald) is the occasion for us...

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Last days to see Depero under the skin in Madrid (thanks to the Juan March Foundation)

Conceived to introduce Fortunato Depero’s creative brilliance to the Spanish audience, the exhibition the Juan March Foundation in Madrid is...

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Can the Pope abolish hell and make peace with contemporary art?

We recently visited the Vatican Museums during a day that, according to the staff we spoke to, was even busier...

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Goshka Macuga possibly in the pipeline at the new Fondazione Prada in Milan

The new awaited venue of the Fondazione Prada, a former distillery located in the south part of Milan, will open...

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Slavs and Tatars report from Zakopane

by Slavs and Tatars

For our at the show with the artist section artist duo Slavs and Tatars write about Zakopane, a Tatra mountains'...

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Beauty treatments to Raphael’s “La Muta” before her return to Urbino

The troubled young woman painted in 1507 by Raffaello Sanzio – apparently Maria Feltria della Rovere, widow of Venanzio Varano,...

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7 questions to protect the good artists from Zombie criticism

Generally the end of the solar year is the time when the “lists” are published, and the main part of...

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In dialogue with Nick Darmstaedter and his visual manipulation of masculinity in 1972

The new body of works presented by Nick Darmstaedter at T293 in Rome for of his first solo show in...

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Is the Italian Government seriously disposed to lend hotels the artworks preserved in museums’ storage?

As reported by Adnkronos press agency a couple of days ago, Ilaria Borletti Buitoni, the Italian “sottosegretario alla cultura” – who...

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A look at Ingres to expand Jack McConville’s “heroic frenzies” currently in Los Angeles

Placed somewhere between drawing and painting, this image recently presented by Jack McConville in a solo exhibition at Ibid. Los...

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News from Pisa: heated canvases will protect Buffalmacco’s fresco from condensation

The complex operations running in Pisa to bring back the notorious frescoes of the Campo Santo (the medioeval city’s cemetery)...

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At the Middelheim Museum time is a constructive reality (featured by artist Kader Attia and the Cave Painters)

Surely one of the most important sculpture parks in Belgium, the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp hosts more than 200 outdoor...

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Is philosopher Graham Harman’s speculative realism really inspiring a new art critique?

Philosopher Graham Harman, also included on ArtReview’s list of the most powerful personalities in 2014 the artworld, has indeed been...

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Last days to play with Richard Tuttle’s System VI

If there was a soundtrack for Richard Tuttle’s assemblages it might include his mother exclaiming, “What have you been up...

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At the Musée du Luxembourg to learn Paul Durand-Ruel’s lesson: defend art above all else

To picture the career of someone who had purchased closed to 12.000 artworks during his life is a difficult task...

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Goodbye Nada Miami Beach, Je F* t’aime!

New York Observer’s Nate Freeman mistook me for an art dealer, and in his text about NADA Miami Beach wrote that if...

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What will be remembered about Miami art week 2014?

Sometimes the glossy Art Basel Miami Beach is less attractive than the parallel exhibitions and the satellite events that surround...

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