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At “Perugino master of Raphael” two paintings seeking for a conceptual reading

  Among the 50 artworks the exhibition “Perugino Master of Raphael” gathers together at the extraordinary Musée Jacquemart-André, in Paris...

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Jack Greer and Walter Benjamin share the room at Bugada & Cargnel in Paris

  Among the galleries that today are paying a particular attention to the relation between form and info, there is...

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Four pieces under 1m to catch at the Biennale des Antiquaires

The Biennale des Antiquaires runs until next Saturday, and these four pieces, whose offering price is under one million euro, are...

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Back from the Yokohama Triennial Elias Hansen answers to our version of the Proust’s questionnaire

  We wrote for the first time about Elias Hansen last June, in occasion of his solo show at Jonathan...

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At the Biennale des Antiquaires 2014 welcome to the eclectic side

  The first thought that comes to your mind when you exit the outstanding and extremely packed Biennale des Antiquaires‘...

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Look at the back side if you really want to know them: the countdown for Francis Picabia at the MoMA and Kunsthaus Zurich has started

  The great epiphany of Francis Picabia‘s fortune after his death will take place in 2016, when both the New...

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Ilja Karilampi at The Suzanne Geiss Company: the beauty of art comes from the beauty of info

  With the prudence the reading of any artwork would require, in particular when the artwork is contemporary to you,...

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In preparation for the 27th Biennale des Antiquaires at the Grand Palais

  The main reason why an art collector or lover should visit the Biennale des Antiquaires – in Paris from...

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Jana Euler at Kunsthalle Zurich: whole counts more than single parts

The first problem one has to face when reading Jana Euler’s solo exhibition currently at Kunsthalle Zurich regards the strong links the...

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The helping hands of fashion and luxury is saving Italian monuments

  After a long period during which the Italian government has been paying almost entirely the bill of the preservation...

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Matthew Day Jackson at Hauser and Wirth Zurich: where has the mountain guide gone in the meantime?

  Among the shows that are not to be missed if you are around in Zurich, there is the Matthew...

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Pinturicchio in San Gimignano and the dark matter of which the Italian exhibitions are made of

  Every man or woman who loves fine arts should know that a large part, if not all, of the...

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Wyatt Kahn’s dancing puzzles go sentimental at the Zurich art weekend

  There was a lot of expectation for Wyatt Khan first solo show at Eva Presenhuber in Zurich and, as...

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A Medieval Specula Principum book at the basis of Slavs and Tatars’ solo exhibition since yesterday at Kunsthalle Zurich

Our report from the Zurich art weekend starts with a gallery of pics from the solo show by the collective...

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Roman series: the new venue of the Fondazione Prada will open in Milan under the influence of classic sculptures

Nothing has been officially confirmed yet, but rumours say that the opening exhibition of the new Fondazione Prada in Milan,...

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Leading contemporary artists get inspired by Pieter Coecke van Aelst: soon at the Met the golden age of tapestry will give you some tips

  The upcoming exhibition titled Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry, recently announced by the Metropolitan Museum...

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Answering three basic questions asked by Antoine de Galbert about the software driven setting of his collection currently on display at La Maison Rouge in Paris

  At page 85 of the “strange”, rather a bit uncomfortable-to-read catalogue of the exhibition dedicated to the collection of...

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Sam Falls: soon in Zurich a body of new works on canvas plus an unforeseen self-portrait

  The upcoming step of Sam Falls’ brilliant career as an artist is going to be his second solo exhibition...

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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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