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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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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French, 1827-1875), "Ugolino and His Sons", 1865-67; detail, Saint-Béat marble; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation Inc. Gift, Charles Ulrick and Josephine Bay Foundation Inc. Gift, and Fletcher Fund

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux at the MET and the Divine Comedy

In the relationship between form and information, it may happen that a poetic source is stronger than a scientific or...

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Art in novels: from “Letters to a young novelist” by Mario Vargas Llosa to Rudolf Stingel’s alpine landscapes

Dear Friend, Ernest Hemingway says somewhere that at the beginning of his writing career it suddenly occur to him that...

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A dialogue with collector Michel Cox Witmer at TEFAF 2014, who suggests: never buy based on what is for sale

Michel Cox Witmer is a long-experienced collector as well as a member of TEFAF’s board of trustee. On the way...

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The TEFAF Art Market Report: there’s a reason for all those online art sales start-ups

  At 6.23 pm, when we start writing this article, the TEFAF is packed with people, and almost everyone is dressed...

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Day one at TEFAF 2014: get ready for the opening!

  TEFAF 2014 has just begun, and collectors from all over the world are ready to enter the fair. In...

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"Virgin and Child with Angels" (1452-1455 ca), oil on panel by Jean Fouquet, Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (it will be in Madrid, Prado Museum until 25 May)

Jean Fouquet goes to Madrid with an introduction letter by Paul Cézanne

  Generally preserved at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, the “Virgin and Child with Angels” by French...

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The Itinerary of catastrophe, a conversation between Sylvère Lotringer and Paul Virilio, 2008.

At the Whitney Biennial three artworks, plus Semiotext(e)

  Yesterday CFA had a very dedicated tour of the Whitney Biennial of American art, its last dance in the...

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As a Futurist in New York he was completely useless! And fully disappointed back he went to his own country…

  Yesterday Conceptual Fine Arts visited the great show dedicated to the Italian Futurism at the Guggenheim museum, that we...

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Antonello da Messina active 1456; died 1479, “Saint Jerome in his Study” about 1475. © The National Gallery, London

The fluidity of ideas reveals a futuristic side in the Renaissance

  At the National Gallery in London soon there will be an exhibition that will offer a very conceptual approach...

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Bodies and objects are back at Independent 2014, thanks to Oliver Osborne and Brad Troemel

  If the realm of the art practice is half occupied by artists who are not interested in representing bodies...

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Falls, Kahn, Smalley, Ancart: at the Armory 2014 a few minutes are enough

  Collectors have been faster than ever this year at the Armory Show, especially with these guys. The three amazing...

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New York contemporary art week is about to being: is a wishing list what you need?

  After two months of web surfing and e-books reading, we are coming back to the playground. New York contemporary...

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Siena Cathedral

Looking at beauties from different perspectives

  The Cathedral of Siena (whose construction began in the mid-twelfth century and completed by 1370) re-opens its “Gate of...

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