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Cesare Ripa, Iconology’s father and ancestor of the “form and info” (to be discovered online)

Amongst the roots of the relationship between form and information in art, there is to be pinpointed the book “Iconologia”...

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When The Exorcist spoke about Vermeer and Leonardo da Vinci

  William Friedkin, director of seminal horror movie “The Exorcist” (1973), chooses imperfect works by Vermeer and Leonardo Da Vinci...

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Respect to Gillo Dorfles, the oldest living art critic, 103

“One of the things that has always interested me and that interests me most is studying the person, ‘man’ as...

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Leo Gabin

Leo Gabin: shocking videos (with teens) at the service of traditional paintings

Ho Ho Click – Bleacherz and Teacherz from Leo Gabin on Vimeo.   Leo Gabin trio’s two-dimensional balanced accumulation of...

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Thanks to NSA and GCHQ Europeans don’t need confessionals anymore

  While Edward Snowden is still in Russia, an enquiry by the European parliament’s civil liberties committee condemned in the...

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Tiziano Vecellio (1485 - 1576), Danae, 1553, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado

Tiziano and the conceptual program of his “Poems”

On September 10th, 1554, the artist Tiziano Vecellio sent to the king of Spain, Philip II, the painting “Venus and...

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Adel Abdessemed, Bourek, 2005, aircraft fuselage

With Amnesty International at the finissage of “L’Age d’Or”, the controversial Adel Abdessemed’s solo show in Doha

Today closes Adel Abdessemed’s solo show “L’Age d’Or” at Mathaf, the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar, but...

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Torey Thornton, tricks and strokes (from a phenomenological perspective)

What makes Torey Thornton’s mixed media two dimensional artworks so appealing isn’t the fact that they are colorful or apparently...

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“We painters use the same license as poets and madmen”, Paolo Veronese claimed in front of the Inquisition

  Waiting for “Veronese: Magnificence in Renaissance“, the major show dedicated to Paolo Veronese, from March 19th to June 15th at...

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Discover CFA’s contribution to Radio Aporee

  The organ on the right side (in cornu Epistolae) in Santa Maria della Passione church is by Gian Giacomo...

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Art in novels: when José Saramago wrote about Valeriano Trubbiani

by Stefano Pirovano

A struggling young artist, commissioned to paint a portrait of an influential industrialist, learns in the process about himself and...

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Marco Basaiti (1470/75 - 1530), “The calling of the sons of Zebedee”, oil on canvas, Venice, Gallerie dell’Accademia

A seminal Marco Basaiti to be discovered while waiting for the set-up of Galleria dell’Accademia in Venice

  On December 18, 2013, the new thirty rooms of the Galleria dell’Accademia in Venice have been inaugurated. Located in the...

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Yoan Mudry

  The Swiss artist Yoan Mudry is 24 years old and, according to his cv, he has been educated in Geneva,...

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Artist, are you following the Crystal or the Flame?

  “Crystal and flame: two forms of perfect beauty that we cannot tear our eyes away from, two modes of...

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Art in novels: with “The real thing” Henry James grabs the essence of being an artist

by Stefano Pirovano

The narrator of “The real thing” is a painter and this short novel, published in 1892, is dedicated to his...

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Peruzzi Baldassarre (Ancaiano 1481 – Roma 1536) Portrait of card. Pietro Accolti, Verso, oil on canvas. Galleria degli Uffizi

At the Uffizi to experience the b-side visibility

  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 Conceptual Fine Arts

Our first post of 2014 is writer Alain Elkann interviewing Fabrizio Moretti, gallery owner, collector, philantrophist and beloved publisher of...

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Using old critic tools to read a new artwork would be a way to miss its novelty

  On the contrary, you could interpret it as a score to play, with all the kind of info it...

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Bramante: some links between form and info become surprisingly stronger in time

“Fu Bramante persona molto allegra e piacevole, e si dilettò sempre di giovare a’ prossimi suoi. Fu amicissimo delle persone...

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Art in novels: “the art we produce lives in queasy balance with the art we can imagine, the art the room expects”

  Peter Harris is an art dealer, his wife Rebecca is the editor of an art magazine; Mizzy, the complicated...

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Art in novels: “An Object of Beauty”, by Steve Martin, actor and collector

An Object of Beauty is a novel written by Steve Martin and published in 2010, a few months after another...

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"San Serapio", 1628, by Zurbaran; oil on canvas, Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund

Zurbaran’s masterpieces painted by the moods of men

Among the protagonists of Iberian art of the seventeenth century, the painter Zurbaran has known a great success for his...

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Cormack McCarthy and Waler De Maria: the cryptic epiloge of Blood Meridian and the legendary Lighting Field

We have to be honest, there is no evidence that the epilogue of Blood meridian, by Cormack McCarthy (1985), was...

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Giuliano Mauri: the hidden gem out of the tourist flock

Five aisles and 42 columns made of 1800 fir wood poles, branches and iron nails. The trees planted inside the...

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Man Ray, Tristan Tzara, vers 1921, Paris, Centre Pompidou, © Man Ray Trust / Adagp, Paris

Tristan Tzara: dada artist or hero for a revolution?

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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Holy Family, Raphael (attribuited), 1506 ca., State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg

Today a Raphael arrives in Turin to meet his imitators

From December 21 until February 23, at the Museum of Palazzo Madama in Turin, you can see a masterpiece attributed...

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10 simple questions to test the artistic quality of a piece of contemporary art

Does it extend my notion of beauty? What does it say about human beings and their destiny? How many of...

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Art in Novels: In Venice visiting the Scuola Grande di San Rocco high on cocaine (according to Geoff Dyer)

Tintoretto worked at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco from 1564 to 1588, producing an impressive cycle of 52 paintings...

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Napoleon’s dream: a step forward to its revival in Abu Dhabi

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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Travess Smalley, Computer Graphic on Vinyl, Vector Weave, Scan #92, 2013, uv print on stretched vinyl, 60 x 43.5 in.

Are we entering the post-curator era?

Interpreting the art system has always been a hard task: no official and reliable information, a few certainties, many lies....

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San Tommaso, Giovanni Pisano, Pisa, baptistery, Giacomo Pozzi Bellini - 1946-1947

Revealing Giacomo Pozzi Bellini: a master of artwork photography of the XX century

Giacomo Pozzi Bellini (Florence 1907 – Paris 1990) is known for his work as a cinematographer for the documentary “The...

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