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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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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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