The narrator of “The real thing” is a painter and this short novel, published in 1892, is dedicated to his...
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It is a fact that the b-side often helps to understand the a side. It happens to contemporary artworks as well as to the...
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Our first post of 2014 is writer Alain Elkann interviewing Fabrizio Moretti, gallery owner, collector, philantrophist and beloved publisher of...
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On the contrary, you could interpret it as a score to play, with all the kind of info it...
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“Fu Bramante persona molto allegra e piacevole, e si dilettò sempre di giovare a’ prossimi suoi. Fu amicissimo delle persone...
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Peter Harris is an art dealer, his wife Rebecca is the editor of an art magazine; Mizzy, the complicated...
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An Object of Beauty is a novel written by Steve Martin and published in 2010, a few months after another...
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Among the protagonists of Iberian art of the seventeenth century, the painter Zurbaran has known a great success for his...
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We have to be honest, there is no evidence that the epilogue of Blood meridian, by Cormack McCarthy (1985), was...
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Five aisles and 42 columns made of 1800 fir wood poles, branches and iron nails. The trees planted inside the...
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A part of the western world is at war. It is not a traditional war. It can’t be fought with...
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From December 21 until February 23, at the Museum of Palazzo Madama in Turin, you can see a masterpiece attributed...
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Does it extend my notion of beauty? What does it say about human beings and their destiny? How many of...
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Tintoretto worked at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco from 1564 to 1588, producing an impressive cycle of 52 paintings...
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While Paris will be soon enriched with the new Fondation Louis Vuitton’s building, another French driven museum is almost ready...
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Interpreting the art system has always been a hard task: no official and reliable information, a few certainties, many lies....
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Giacomo Pozzi Bellini (Florence 1907 – Paris 1990) is known for his work as a cinematographer for the documentary “The...
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Louis Vuitton Foundation’s new building, Paris Last Monday Conceptual Fine Arts was in Paris, at the Bois de Boulogne,...
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In Florence, not far from the crowded tourist routes, close to the museum Bragello, you enter a place surprisingly rich...
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Here the passage of “Jeff in Venice, death in Varanasi” in which author Geoff Dyer describes a James Turrell installation...
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The pics in our gallery are deadly blurred because they have been stolen, as thousands of other similar pictures you...
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Strolling along Nada 2013 in Miami, you might have bumped into a white photocopier. Instead of gallerists and gatekeepers, either...
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The Museum of Castelvecchio, in Verona, is just another Italian old glory that is fading away due to the deep...
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One of the best way to approach art is by accident. Ryan Estep is a proof of this statement. He enrolled on...
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Giorgio Vasari wrote about Pontormo an affectionate and accurate biography. But a few lines are enough to define the personality...
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With Davide Stucchi we payed a visit to the exhibition dedicated to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera by the Musée...
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The two texts below have been found on the website of the National Museum of Japan. They refers to a...
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“State-commissioned art is what Reger calls the paintings hanging on these walls, including even the White-Bearded Man. The so-called old...
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“The title is part of the sculpture, and I really care about it” declared Thea Djordjadze to a journalist in...
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The “Monuments Men” was a group of approximately 345 men and women from thirteen nations, most of whom volunteered to...
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The grace of the characters’ hands, so carefully depicted, the depth of their gazes, the vanishing clouds in the background,...
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