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Mr. Falckenberg please choose: does every era get the art it deserves or is every work of art the child of its age?

    Some days ago we have discussed about the essay published one Mousse magazine by Jens Hoffmann. It follows...

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"Chiaravalle" abbey near Milan (Italy). Fresco with “Madonna and Child” (1512) painted by Bernardino Luini

Who is so brave to get closer to this charming Bernardino Luini’s?

Not far from Milan, there is a very picturesque little village, Chiaravalle Milanese, one of the first settlements of Cistercian...

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Art in novels: pinpointed one of Isaac Brest’s most enigmatic sources

by Stefano Pirovano

We had to visit two buildings under construction before understanding, but finally we have pinpointed the fragment of reality where...

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The Pecci reloaded: iconic Nio’s hardware almost ready, but the software is still to be written

  Prato’s major, Roberto Cenni, promises that the new addition to the “Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci” will open...

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More critics, less curators: should we read Jens Hoffmann’s cosmic pessimism in his “Art after the end of art” as a self-accuse?

  “Art after the end of art” is a short essay published by art writer and curator Jens Hoffmann on...

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Born again after seventeen years of hibernation: Prato opens its brand new Museo di Palazzo Pretorio

During the Renaissance Prato, not far from Florence, was a rich town. Not as rich as the lavish Florence, but...

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Ugo Mulas, “Jasper Johns”, New York, 1967. Fotografie Ugo Mulas © Eredi Ugo Mulas. All right reserved. Courtesy Archivio Ugo Mulas, Milano - Galleria Lia Rumma, Milano/Napoli

Art in the mirror with Giorgio Vasari, Ugo Mulas and Jasper Jones

  In the preface of his “Lives”, Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, 1511 – Firenze 1574) says that art began when someone...

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At Milan design week Marina Abramovich’s disturbing performance, with the kind help of Daniel Libeskind

  We strongly believe that design and art are very different from each other, and they shouldn’t be mixed, even...

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Gemaldegalerie’s director Bernd Wolfang Lindemann talks with Conceptual Fine Arts, in Berlin? No, at the Collezione Maramotti

  We haven’t meet Professor Bernd Wolfang Lindeman at the museum he directs, the National Gemaldegalerie in Berlin, but at...

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In dialogue with Grear Patterson, to remember that things, like artists, are not necessarily what they appear to be

  Grear Patterson solo exhibition at Ellis King in Dublin will open in a couple of days. Simply it will be...

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Parmigianino, "Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror", 1524, oil on convex panel", 1524 ca., Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

How to turn a self-portrait into a selfie? Just share it and add tags

by Antonio Carnevale

Selfie are casting a new light on self-portrait as well as questioning the boundaries between art history, psychology a sociology

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“A Pink Nude Seated ”, Henri Matisse (1935, Paris, Centre Pompidou)

Henri Matisse: form, sex and information

by Stefano Pirovano

Former Pompidou's deputy director Isabelle Monod Fontaine proves how the figure has been at the core of Henry Matisse entire...

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Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, 1632. Oil on canvas, 169.5 x 216.5 cm. Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis,

Art in novels: the responsive eye of novelist Donna Tartt reading the Rembrandt’s masterpiece

After Donna Tartt‘s description of one of the rare Carel Fabritius‘s canvases we posted two days ago in relation with...

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An interview with young master Wade Guyton

by Stefano Pirovano

We have paid a visit to Wade Guyton's studio and sat down with him to talk about the difference between...

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Carel Fabritius, The goldfinch, 1654. Oil on panel, 33.5 x 22.8 cm. Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis,

A special Goldfinch to renovate the house of the Girl with the Pearl Earring

  In a couple of months the ambitious renovation project by Hans van Heeswijk Architects of the Royal Picture Gallery...

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If you don’t want Paolo Veronese to be a pop artist don’t visit Richard Hamilton at the Tate Modern

  Just a few hours after visiting Paolo Veronese’s “retrospective” exhibition at the National Gallery we went to the Tate...

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Paolo Veronese: a sitcom director in the lush Venice of the XVI century

  Paolo Caliari, best known as Veronese, was born in 1528 in Verona where he completed major commissions for churches...

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An art tourist in Peckham

  Yesterday Conceptual Fine Arts spent the afternoon visiting galleries in Peckham, London, with our friend architecture critic and lecturer...

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While painting evolves children’s drawings are timeless

  The term Art Brut was first used by painter Jean Dubuffet to refer to a kind of art outside...

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MiArt 2014: the usual, please!

  At the opening of MiArt 2014 the trend running in the last months has been once again confirmed. Probably...

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On MiArt’s eve director of the fair Vincenzo De Bellis in dialogue with Conceptual Fine Arts

  Tomorrow MiArt 2014 will open to the invited visitors, but as recently often happens – and probably also thanks...

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Dreamland is where the distance between epochs fades away

  When we saw this marble group of Orpheus and the animals last week at TEFAF 2014 sold for a...

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David Ostrowski, F (dann lieber nein), 2012. Painting oil, lacquer and adhesive foil on canvas, cm 40,5 x 50,5.

In Paris a user guide to introduce the last David Ostrowski’s monologue

  As many collectors may have noticed the last solo exhibition of David Ostrowski opened ten days ago at Almine...

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Interrelated masters: Rosso, Brancusi and Man Ray at the Boijmans

  Its set-up could have been less static, and the systematic association between photography and sculptures ends up to be...

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Hans Cranach, “Hercules at the Court of Omphale”, 1537. Oil on panel. 57.5 x 85.3 cm. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

This unconventional “Hercules” currently under restoration in Madrid is the oldest ancestor of Cindy Sherman

  The restoration of a painting by Lucas Cranach has just began at the museum Tyhssen Bornemitza in Madrid. The artwork is titled...

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If you haven’t understood yet what Conceptual Fine Arts is about, visit the The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rottherdan and buy its “Collection book”

  The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen first opened its doors in 1849 and currently comprises an estimated total of some 140.000 objects,...

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Maarten van Heemskerck "Self-Portrait in Rome with the Colosseum" (1553), Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum

Maarten van Heemskerck; a double portrait separated and united by the shadows

Maarten van Heemskerck (Heemskerck 1498 – Haarlem 1574) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He lived in Rome, Italy, from...

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Tommaso di Stefano Lunetti and Christian Schad at a walkable distance? Only at the TEFAF 2014, until 23 March

  One of the most beautiful opportunities an art fair such as the TEFAF 2014 offers to its visitors is...

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Nick Darmstaedter’s solo show at Bugada&Cargnel resolved thanks to a letter written almost 500 years ago

    Answering the third argument, painters say that it is quite true that the purpose of both arts is...

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What do museums have in common with women? According to John Updike both of them suggest radiance, antiquity, mystery and duty

    We parted and I descended the marble stairs. Before pushing through the revolving doors, i looked back, and...

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Charles Harlan at Venus over Manhattan: is the essence of beauty in the way human beings protect it?

There are only ten days left to visit the solo show by Charles Harlan at Venus Over Manhattan, in New...

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