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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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At the show with the artist: May Hands visits JMW Turner at the Tate Britain

After visiting the exhibition of Turner’s late works at Tate Britain, I wondered what it is that I find so...

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Sons of Florence: a dialogue between Fabrizio Moretti and Massimiliano Giornetti

Art dealer and publisher of Conceptual Fine Arts Fabrizio Moretti meets Massimiliano Giornetti, creative director of Salvatore Ferragamo. Both grown up...

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Bunny Rogers be aware of the “Saviano effect”

We must confess that after looking up the website embroidered on one of the blankets Bunny Rogers is presenting at...

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Soon an international call to direct the 10 leading Italian museums (including the Uffizi)

The reform of the Italian Ministero dei Beni e della Attività Culturali, finally published a few days ago in the...

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With Ryan Foerster the stream of consciousness turns solid

by Stefano Pirovano

Rayan Foerster solo exhibition at C L E A R I N G in New York spans over 10 years...

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In dialogue with art collector Stéphane Janssen

by Stefano Pirovano

We sat down with Belgian art collector Stéphane Janssen, to whom the The Phoenix Museum of Art is dedicating a...

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Scientific analysis of Oscar Kokoschka’s portrait of actor Ernst Reinhold reveal a mysterious under-painting

  These days, the Royal Museums Of Fine Arts of Belgium have dedicated a small section of their galleries to...

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The Dominic Samsworth’s case: can artists be the most compelling writers about their own work?

  In this article we would like to address the fairly recent practice of exhibition press releases: texts written for...

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The winning model: Louvre Lens celebrates its second birthday

    With the opening to the public of a comprehensive exhibition dedicated to animals in Ancient Egypt (more than...

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The tapestry company: Gino Saccone, Margo Wolowiec and Pieter Coecke van Aelst

  Not long ago we proposed a reflexion on the opulence in the arts in connection to the tapestry fabricator...

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Visit Gustave Moreau’s atelier and become suspicious of certain unproductive emerging artists

  In a couple of months the refurbishing of the charming Musée national Gustave Moreau in Paris, 14 rue de...

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In dialogue with Peppi Bottrop and his monumental deconstruction of geometry

by Stefano Pirovano

  Born in Bottrop, the same German city where Josef Albers was born too, Peppi Bottrop (1986) studied with Albert Oehlen...

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At the show with the artist: Arianna Carossa smells Pieter Coecke van Aelst’s seminal exhibition at the Met

As proved by the the book she has recently published, “The aesthetic of my disappearance” (BlisterZine, 2014), artist Arianna Carossa...

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Julia Rommel’s intimate conversations on definite at Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels

    Once again, despite its catchy name, Brussels gallery Sorry We’re Closed has recently opened its doors and lit up...

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The small barrel preserves the best wine: Paris Tableaux 2014

  In Paris, at Palais Brongniart, while the Grand Palais is hosting a lackluster edition of Paris Photo, the fourth...

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To be discovered: the quasi-science of Adrien Lucca

When it comes to Adrien Lucca, one of the few Brussels-based artists born in the 1980s to have a solo...

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The golden age of Siena’s painting regains strength at Bozart (with a special guest from Boston)

  The most seductive piece among the sixty delicate artworks gathered together in occasion of the exhibition dedicated to the...

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