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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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clino trini castelli

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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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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