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Weekend tips: Giovanni di Balduccio’s virtues at Sant’Eustorgio, Milan

  The Cappela Portinari, the core of the “Basilica di Sant’Eustorgio” in Milan, hosts a few interesting pieces of art....

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George Henry Longly at Liste 2014: elements for a light mythology

  The most perceptive text among the many on-line pages dedicated to George Henry Longly is, from our point of...

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Matera. Church of St. John the Baptist, the thirteenth century.

A visit in Matera to realize that time could be an extraordinary conceptual artist

  The Italian city of Matera is famous thanks to the “Sassi” (stones), rocks where human settlements have developed without...

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Liste 2014: do you know that our spiritual side is taking materialism means?

  As we wrote a couple of days ago, and other reviewers have pointed out too, at Liste art fair...

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Art Basel 2014: Rosemarie Trockel and the fear factor

  Two years after Rosemarie Trockel’s solo retrospective at The Serpentine Gallery, where the work was firstly presented, the installation...

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Art Basel 2014: look for your own path

    An art fair is always an art fair, thus a place where artworks are on exhibition to be...

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Unlimited 2014: the next challenge is length

      While this year the opening of Liste may have left behind someone deluded – we still believe...

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Our report from ArtBasel 2014 starts from a fabulous Gerhard Richter at Fondation Beyeler

  If the big power in the art system is the capability of placing the artwork always in its ideal...

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Take a walk in Trisha Baga’s jungle before meeting her at Art Basel Statements 2014

  While waiting for the artist’s new 3D installation to be presented at Art Basel Statements we have visited Trisha...

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Giovanni Bellini, “The presentation in the Temple”, 1460 ca., tempera on panel, Museo Querini Stampalia, Venice.

Giovanni Bellini? Convince the guard to open the security cordon and let you take a closer look at the back of the painting

  Walking in Campo Santa Maria Formosa, Venice, and turning around its main church, you arrive in front of a...

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Was Nan Goldin’s shooting at the Louvre a fundamental step toward a new approach to old masters?

The sad sight on a sad reality that has made Nan Golding’s photography so familiar to all the bohemians of...

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Gustave Doré, Cupid with a pistol on top of a Mountain of skulls, pen and brush with india ink on paper.

Richard and Ulla Dreyfus-Best collection: a survey of the human soul

An exhibition reveals the art collection of Richard and Ulla Dreyfus-Best, masters collectors between contemporary art and art from the...

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Form and info: Danh Vo’s “Autoerotic Asphyxiation” re-loaded in Palazzo Grassi, Venice

  Four years after “Autoerotic Asphyxiation” was exhibited at the Artist Space in New York the basic information for its understanding...

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From NYC subway to the Pallant House: Nicholas Sinclair’s artists reassessing Andres Serrano’s homeless

  The perceptive article below has been sent to Conceptual Fine Arts by artist and lecturer Geoff Hands. It moves...

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“Fundamentals” XIV biennale di architettura, Venezia, “Elements of architecture”, Central Pavilion. Rem Koohlaas explains the relationsheep between elements of architecture and symbol

Venice: Rem Koolhaas’ fundamentals of architecture don’t include artworks

  Conceptual fine arts visited the preview of the Venice Architecture Biennal 2014, which starts today until 23 November 2014....

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To architects the task of planning functional buildings, to artists that of creating functional symbols: Adrian Paci at the Venice Biennale Architettura 2014

  Symbols are among the fundamentals of any artistic language. Of course it doesn’t mean that any work of art...

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Ai Weiwei, Forever, 2014. 1179 bicycles, 728,6 x 1603,8 x 397,9 cm.

At Palazzo Franchetti the “genius loci” is named Nicholas L.

  “Genius Loci” at Palazzo Franchetti, in Venice, is a show promoted by Lisson Gallery and Studio Berengo in occasion...

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At the Venice Biennale Architettura 2014 words are the only real “fundamental”

  The key words for the Biennale Architettura 2014 now opening in Venice are: history, modernism, research and participation. Curator Rem Koolhaas...

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Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), “Head study of a man in a ruff”, oil on canvas, (55.3 x 45.1 cm.)

What a perfect story to promote the re-discovered van Dyck’s soon on sale at Christie’s

  It must have been a real shock for Father Jamie MacLeod to find out that the Sir Anthony van...

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NYC: Andres Serrano works with homeless

by Stefano Pirovano

In New York's subway artist Andres Serrano provokes with big photos of homeless people; but it's a poor game.

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In Madrid to discover why Manet, Pollock, Modigliani, or Kokoschka have all been fascinated by El Greco’s painting

  On 24 June the exhibition “El Greco and Modern Painting” will open at the Prado, in Madrid. This show,...

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Karla Black’ solo show at Galleria Raffaella Cortese: have you ever drunk an excellent yellow wine?

  If we were asked to point out what Karla Black’s art practice is about we would answer that it...

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A rare Botticelli’s drawing soon on auction introduced by contemporary master Richard Prince

  As many online media are reporting, this rare Botticelli’s drawing is the only one by the artist which is...

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Form and info: artist Laurie Anderson among the signatories of an open letter which condemns the Lukashenko’s Soviet style regime in Belarus

    A few days after the final of the ice hockey championships in Belarus has been played (Russia won...

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The curve and the real: dedicated to our beloved photography’s students at IED, Milan

  Once the digital has come about, the two elements of which a photography is made of – idea and...

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. Detail: Rodrigo de la Fuente, “El Greco”, Oil on canvas, 96 x 82.3 cm h (? ) . 1582 - 1585 Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado

The El Greco’s Library: link between form and information revealed at the Prado

  The Museo del Prado, the Biblioteca Nacional de España and Fundación El Greco 2014 is presenting the exhibition “El...

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Antonello da Messina, Ritratto d'uomo, 1476, Palazzo Madama, Torino.

Back to the XV century to discover what painting still aims at

  Then Adam, knowing the sin he had committed, and being nobly endowed by God, as the root and origin...

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Analysis of a Jack McConville’s panting: rustic joints or a disturbed classical idyll?

Painting is painting and Jack McConville (1984, Edinburgh) is a painter. This time however we won’t be talking about his...

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Would you say that this is a museum’s room? Welcome to the Galleria Rizzi in Sestri Levante, Italy

  Perhaps the art collection preserved in Galleria Rizzi, in Sestri Levante, is not as substantial as the ones in...

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World in the art mirror: a hint of Vonnegut and Chapman bros. to comment the growing euroscepticism

  The vote in Europe has sadly confirmed the opinion about Europeans that the old newspaper editor claims in Kurt...

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Giovanni Da Milano (Como 1320 approx. - Florence 1369 approx.), Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew, detail of the predella of the altarpiece with Madonna and Child with Saints (1355-1360 approx.) Prato, Museo di Palazzo Pretorio.

Bartholomew… so skinny, so conceptual

According to Christian iconography, the Apostle Bartholomew was martyred by being flayed alive. This savage torture has been depicted in...

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