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New Hauser & Wirth Somerset opens debate on art delocalization

by Geoff Hands

The new Hauser & Wirth Somerset: a gallery space or the ultimate art-linked rural community project?

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A hint of genuine French pessimism to remind that too many tourists can easily turn the beauty into a beast

  “Churches, altarpieces, liturgies, impressiveness of offices: the ancient times practised the culture of cult. Museums, “installations”, exhibitions, art fairs:...

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Living a gallery performance by Yvonne Rainer and the endless possibilities of minimal art

Have you experienced that feeling, when leaving the cinema, that the real world you re-enter is tainted by the imaginary,...

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To the new Jeff’s megamaison in NYC Damien replies from Ilfacrombe with 750 new buildings

After a long silence, and while his friend Jeff is entertaining New York City’s summer tourists with a retrospective exhibition...

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At the show with the artist: Jeannette Montgomery Barron visits Palazzo Massimo in Rome

We met her a few weeks ago in Reggio Emilia in occasion of her solo show at the Collezione Maramotti...

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Has Martial Raysse been influenced by the Pop artists? Apparently less then Piero del Pollaiolo…

  Five canvases picturing iconic paintings by old masters such as Dominique Ingres, Piero del Pollaiolo and Hans Memling are currently...

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Elias Hansen: blown glasses preserving moments of anger

  No writings can better explain the solo show by the conceptual glass-blower Elias Hansen currently at Jonathan Viner, London,...

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In Reims Imi Knoebel and Marc Chagall set a unique comparison between figuration and abstraction

  In 2008 German artist Imi Knoebel designed the six stained glass windows of the two north and south chapel...

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This day in 1890 Vincent Van Gogh shot himself in the wheat fields behind the château in Auvers

  We would like to commemorate the extraordinary, sensitive and delicate human being that Vincent Van Gogh was with a...

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Vittorio Brodmann, the contemporary existentialist looks relaxed

  Even if during the last two centuries many artists have tried various ways to alter its simple alchemy, painting...

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In remembrance of Roger Ackling (1947-2014)

  The eminent Italian Renaissance architect and theorist, Leon Battista Alberti, stated that the artist should attend to beauty and...

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A gallery day in London with the young-most-wanted Wyatt Kahn and the established English artist David Blackaller

  One of the fascinating aspects of looking at artworks in galleries (as opposed to reproductions) is the potential paradox...

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At the Palais de Tokyo Hiroshi Sugimoto’s version of the Museum of Innocence

  Placed at the entrance of “The world is dead (Human genetic archive)” – Hiroshi Sugimoto’s massive installation currently at...

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Summer tips: the Fontainebleau’s Imperial Theatre restored thanks to His Highness Al Nahyan

  Last May, after 18 months of restoration, the Château de Fontainebleau had its XIX century Imperial Theatre back. It...

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Odessa Straub, from Renaissance drapery to cartoon bubbles the path is short

  We have spotted Odessa Straub’s paintings in the summer group show curated by artist Torey Thornton at the Suzanne...

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Last days for Oscar Murillo’ solo at Marian Goodman: an easy software for a functional hardware

  According to the introductory text provided by the gallery, the surprising Oscar Murillo’s solo (until July 18) is the...

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Summer tips: the essence of the Vézelay Abbey lies in the Codex Calixtinus

  It happens that the point of view of art history often fails to take into account that some works...

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Is Judith Linhares’ “Polly” the “Polly Madison” in Vonnegut’s novel?

  As soon as we saw the image of the Polly painted by Judith Linhares currently on show at Lisa...

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From Giovanni da Rimini to Piet Mondrian: “universal beauty arises from the dynamic rhythm of its inherent relationships”

  Tomorrow an extremely rare masterpiece “from the dawn of the fourteenth century” will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s,...

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A godforsaken world-class archeological site lives in Pantelleria

  The small volcanic Sicilian island called Pantelleria is not only the exotic “buen ritiro” of big names such as...

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Top six summer group exhibitions 2014

  The art calendar is approaching the summer break and generally this is the period of group shows. But if...

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According to Dosso Dossi Jupiter’s painting lies between Odilon Redon and Damien Hirst

  Among the paintings by Niccolò Luteri, alias Dosso Dossi, that will be exhibited at the Castello del Buon Consiglio...

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Peres Projects puts African helmet masks on ten contemporary artists

  The African helmet masks currently in dialogue at Peres Projects, in Berlin, with a group of ten contemporary artists...

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Art pleasures out of the tourist hotspots: the Royal Chapel of Saint Joseph in Turin

  The Church of Saint Teresa of the Discalced Carmelites is a hidden treasure in the city of Turin. Built...

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Different destinies: boy evicted from Venice goes to Basel while the Major is on trial

  A year ago, in Venice, “Boy with frog” by the american artist Charles Ray was removed from Punta della...

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New color, new studies, some lessons from Pontormo’s mastery

  How many thoughts behind a painting, how many sketches on paper, how many changes of ideas and intentions under...

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In dialogue with Jeannette Montgomery Barron lighting up memory of the Eighties at the Collezione Maramotti

  Artists such as Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat or Keith Haring have been photographed many times during the fabulous Eighties,...

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The time box, featuring the Fiammenghini + anonymus lombard artist from the XIV century

  On the right wall of the right transept in the Chiesa di San Marco in Milan, a precious cycle...

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Fathoming Jack McConville’s artistic personality thanks to our proustian questionnaire

  Last month, on the occasion of his solo at the Still House in New York City, we published an...

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What is the danger of globalization? There is no perspective

  Which artworks Paul Virilio did have in mind when giving the below answer to Sylvére Lotringer (The accident of...

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Sterling Ruby, Soft Work, 2011-2013, installation view at Art Basel 2014.

Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby: a new benchmark in the art&fashion category

  The history of the collaboration between artists and fashion brands goes from Piet Mondrian (Yves Saint Laurent, 1965), Andy...

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