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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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Peeking into the new building of the Fondation Louis Vuitton, and into its software

Louis Vuitton Foundation’s new building, Paris     Last Monday Conceptual Fine Arts was in Paris, at the Bois de Boulogne,...

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Apparition of Our Lady to St. Bernardo ( 1485 ca.), detail, Filippino Lippi, Santa Maria Assunta della Badia Fiorentina, Florence

Visiting a confortably empty church in Florence to discover a seminal Filippino Lippi

In Florence, not far from the crowded tourist routes, close to the museum Bragello, you enter a place surprisingly rich...

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James Turrell, illusion and reality according to novelist Geoff Dyer

Here the passage of “Jeff in Venice, death in Varanasi” in which author Geoff Dyer describes a James Turrell installation...

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What does happen when museums forbid their visitors from taking pictures?

The pics in our gallery are deadly blurred because they have been stolen, as thousands of other similar pictures you...

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The Still House Group in Miami: message in a photocopier

Strolling along Nada 2013 in Miami, you might have bumped into a white photocopier. Instead of gallerists and gatekeepers, either...

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Look at the Museum of Castelvecchio to understand that is too early to bet on Italy’s renaissance

The Museum of Castelvecchio, in Verona, is just another Italian old glory that is fading away due to the deep...

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Bumping into Ryan Estep through our Proustian questionnaire

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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Preview of the extraordinary Pontormo’s Visitazione currently under restoration

Giorgio Vasari wrote about Pontormo an affectionate and accurate biography. But a few lines are enough to define the personality...

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At the show with the artist: Davide Stucchi visits Frida Kahlo / Diego Rivera

by Stefano Pirovano

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 increasing tensions between China and Japan mirrored by a beautiful monkey

The two texts below have been found on the website of the National Museum of Japan. They refers to a...

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An encounter with Tintoretto’s White-Bearded Man, driven by novelist Thomas Bernhard

“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 last Fugue played by Thea Djordjadze is at Francesca Kaufmann, Milan

“The title is part of the sculpture, and I really care about it” declared Thea Djordjadze to a journalist in...

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Bernterode, Germany, may 1945: The bronze coffin of Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia was one of four enormous coffins found at the Bernterode repository by Monuments Man Walker Hancock. (Photo credit: Walker Hancock Collection)

Waiting for “The Monuments men”, starring George Clooney, Matt Damon, Daniel Craig and Cate Blanchett. Coming soon…

The “Monuments Men” was a group of approximately 345 men and women from thirteen nations, most of whom volunteered to...

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An irreverent soundtrack: the Iron Maiden accompanying Cima da Conegliano

The grace of the characters’ hands, so carefully depicted, the depth of their gazes, the vanishing clouds in the background,...

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The Robben Island prison, sketched in 2002 by artist and former prisoner Nelson Mandela

“In these sketches entitled: My Robben Island, I have attempted to colour the island sketches in ways that reflect the...

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In dialogue with Martin Roth, the man who is conceptualizing the V&A

After ten years at the guidance of the Dresden State Art Collections, in September 2011 Professor Martin Roth was appointed...

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David Ostrowski’s emotional paintings (a solo show at Simon Lee)

The starting point of David Ostrowski’s solo show at Simon Lee, is neither the title “Yes or let’s say no”,...

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At the show with the artist: Luca Trevisani visits “Il 600 lombardo”, Accademia di Brera, Milan

Conceptual fine arts explored the 46 large scale paintings from the XVII century currently on exhibition at the Accademia di...

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