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Graham Collins, car glasses and Frank Stella saying that what you see is what you see

New York based Graham Collins makes works that have reflective surface, reclaimed glasses from cars and other industrial materials. The...

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Giorgio Morandi, Natura, morta Olio su tela 61,8 x 76,3 cm, 1937. Firenze, Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell’Arte Roberto Longhi.

Rachel Whiteread on Giorgio Morandi: another British artist pays tribute to the painter’s selfishness

  Five years after Tacita Dean, who made two films dedicated to his working desk (Day for night and Still...

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Rule number one: Establish a conceptual framework

  Louisa Buck is an art writer, Judith Greer a collector. If seen from the point of view of contemporary...

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Painter Allegretto Nuzi from Fabriano: experiencing stop motion in the XIV century

  Hidden behind the choir’s stalls of San Venanzio’s Cathedral in Fabriano, Italy, there is a narrow passage leading to...

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Bangerz (PRISM series) 2014, Fiberglass, paint, 162 x 88 x 10 cm

Ed Fornieles: an exaggerated software makes the artwork moving too slow

  The two neat pieces by Ed Fornieles, recently appeared on Carlos/Ishikawa’s web site – currently the only artworks from...

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Baccio Bandinelli “Mercury" , before 1512. Marble. Paris, Musée du Louvre, Département des Sculptures

At the Bargello Baccio Bandinelli takes his revenge against Michelangelo’s supporters

  The first Baccio Bandinelli monographic exhibition – at the Bargello, Florence, until 13 July – allows us to rediscover...

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Discovering New Materialism thanks to artist Timur Si-Qin to regenerate your faith in the immaterial side

  It’s hard to say if what the contemporary philosophy calls “New materialism” will play the same role that other...

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The Met announces free access to 400,000 digital images: the artworks’ metaphysics is expanding…

  This morning Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, sent an email to the...

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Art in novels: Kurt Vonnegut and the most comprehensive definition of the Abstract Expressionism

The most comprehensive definition of the Abstract Expressionism’s highest achievements is given by the painter Rabo Karabekian, main character of...

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The artist’s coach: Symmetry

  Art, of course, doesn’t concern only the realm of the visual. It is an experience that always involves the...

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In dialogue with Andrew Brischler and his motifs

  Andrew Brischler show at The Arts Club in London will open on 27 May, and it is easy to predict that it will...

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Libro d’Ore di Lorenzo de’ Medici, “Annunciation”, Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ms. Ashb. 1874, c. 13v. (© Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ms. Ashb. 1874, c. 13v . Su concessione del MiBACT)

An instructive exhibition dedicated to all those contemporary art collectors who are inflating the bubble

  The upcoming exhibition “The fortunes of the primitives” (at the Galleria dell’Accademia, in Florence, from June 24 to December...

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Graham Green to prove that art is not a progression, but an addition creating a culture

  As Mr. Simchowitz has noticed, the pyramid recently presented by Peter Sutherland in occasion of his solo show at The Still...

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Giuseppe Pagano (Parenzo / Porec 1896 - Mauthausen 1945). Palestrina Pietà : whole and details, Michelangelo Buonarroti. Rome 1938. Gelatin silver print. Florence, Biblioteca Berenson Photographic Archive , Villa I Tatti

Photography, Michelangelo and the “stone sickness” in his urine

  Since it was born at the beginning of the nineteenth century, photography has been looking at Michelangelo Buonarroti’s three-dimensional...

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Open for restoration: at the Oratorio di San Giovanni in Urbino for a rare sight on the frescoes by the Salimbeni bros

Built in 1365, the Oratorio di San Giovanni is one of the magnificent monuments that you come across when exploring...

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Art without theory suffers! Even at Frieze New York 2014

  Frieze New York will open in a few hours but, according to the new trend, some of the works...

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Have you ever looked at Piero della Francesca from this point of view?

  A few days ago we were in Urbino, and of course we visited the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche at...

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Bergamo, Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, wood inlays of the choir

Even the most protected historical building is the result of several eras of contemporary art

  When talking about works by contemporary artists in ancient contexts, a lot of controversies generally tend to come up....

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A letter to Unit+ architects now in residency at San Settimio to re-enact the possible utopia once called Operazione Arcevia

  Dear Unit+,   it was a pleasure meeting you at the Riserva Privata San Settimio, and experiencing the making...

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Ugo Mulas, “Marcel Duchamp”, New York, 1967. Fotografie Ugo Mulas © Eredi Ugo Mulas. Courtesy Archivio Ugo Mulas, Milano - Galleria Lia Rumma, Milano/Napoli. On show at “Ugo Mulas. La fotografia”, museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia (until 14 july 2014)

A message from master Ugo Mulas to all the art trotters on Instagram

  The photographer Ugo Mulas has been not only a wit observer, but also a reliable interpreter of what happened...

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Jacopo Ligozzi (Verona 1547 - Frenze 1627), "Agave americana from a series of paintings done for Francesco I de 'Medici"

Jacopo Ligozzi, cataloging nature at the court of Francesco I

  From 27 May (until 28 September), the Galleria Palatina in Florence will host the first major exhibition dedicated to...

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Torbjorn Rodland, ACV09, 2009, silver gelatin print on baryta paper, 27.7 cm x 22.3 cm x 3 cm (10-7/8" x 8-3/4" x 1-3/16"). Courtesy the artist.

Mapping the comics trend at Pace London

    The upcoming exhibition “Everything falls faster than an anvil” at Pace London is not the last art cocktail mixing...

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ANDY WARHOL, Last Supper, 1986, Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen on canvas 102.1 x 102.1 cm (40.2 x 40.2 in); stamped signature and certified on verso by Frederick Hughes; estimate €6.711.409 - €8.948.545; online bidding on Paddle8 ends May 13 at 4:00 pm EST.

The art market’s last supper is going online according to Hiscox’s report

A few days ago the CEO of Christies’s, Steven Murphy, declared to the Wall Street Journal the auction house’s commitment...

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At the Gallery Weekend Berlin fifty shows are opening the same night: a time saving list is required!

  The 10th edition of the Gallery Weekend Berlin is starting next Friday, and those who need a break from art fairs’...

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Emerging outsiders: a tribute to Alessandro Franchi a century after his death

  In the Cathedral of Prato two of the main frescoes of the Italian Renaissance are preserved: the “Stories of...

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At the museum with the artist: Ditte Gantriis visits the Thordvaldsen in Copenhagen

by Stefano Pirovano

As you will learn from the artist’s web site, Ditte Gantriis lives in Copenhagen. We bumped into her wooden profiled...

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Paul Gauguin, Contes barbares (Barbarian Tales), 1902. Oil on canvas, 131,5 x 90,5 cm, © Museum Folkwang, Essen Photo: Museum Folkwang.

A particular affinity between Gauguin and Munch inspired by the show “Metamorphoses” currently at the MoMA

  Driven by the title of the exhibition that the MoMA is dedicating to Paul Gauguin’s experimental works on paper,...

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Daniel S. Loeb’s attack to “the Sotheby’s three” is a violent open letter, published on the web

    The last assault in the war for the control of Sotheby’s auction house is a letter dated 21...

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Catharine Ahearn, when the evolution in art is an error in the copying-fidelity

  Some time ago we bumped into Catharine Ahearn’s video posted on Raminken Crucible’s web site in occasion of her...

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In praise of Agnolo Gaddi’s most chic frescoes strip

  When you enter the Cathedral of Prato, the first span of the left nave is dedicated to the relic...

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At the show with the artist: Geoff Hands visits “Helen Frankenthaler and JMW Turner” in Margate

Artist and lecturer Geoff Hands’ reading of “Making painting: Helen Frankenthaler and JMW Turner” currently at the Turner Contemporary, also...

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