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Laure Prouvost answers our Proustian questionnaire

We met French artist Laure Prouvost in 2013 in occasion of the opening of her solo show at the Collezione...

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What is art? Give ’em what they know, and when you’ve done it do it again (Rudyard Kipling)

Considering the lack of good art theories in the last two decades – a period of time in which art curators have...

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Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio: the Renaissance propaganda in Palazzo Vecchio

The Chapel of the Priors in the Palazzo Vecchio, in Florence, is a mixture of art, form and information, architecture...

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Ed Lachman

In dialogue with Ed Lachman: from the movie set to a gallery space in Paris

The public knows Ed Lachman as the director of photography of movies such as Far From Heaven, Erin Brockovich or...

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On the morning of March 11th 1944, during the Second World War, the city of Padua, Northern Italy, was heavy...

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Global Activism, a new episode of the political art movement, soon at the ZKM

The aim austrian artist, curator and theoretican Peter Weibel declares he wants to achieve with the upcoming “Global activism” at...

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Italy, good luck

Today the Italian Senate will discuss if, after having been condammed for fiscal fraude, Silvio Berlusconi will have the right...

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Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast (with Ross Iannatti, Dylan Lynch, Torey Thornton, Morgan-Richard Murphey, Grear Patterson, Landon Metz)

With much expectation from his several followers, Rod Barton relocates at a new 1700 sqft space in London. The gallery...

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Behind the scenes at Palazzo Cusani for a better understanding of Allora&Calzadilla’s disillusioned sight on politicians

Yesterday it was the last day of “Fault lines” the highly appreciated retrospective show on Allora & Calzadilla at Palazzo...

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As proved by Brauner’s enucleated eye, our future is written in the artworks

Victor Brauner (1903-1966) was a Romanian surrealist painter. His artistic production is rich in unique hybrid images, hallucinations mixing women,...

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A useful critic line: think of artworks as emotional information

When contemporary artists conceive works whose understanding lies in the information related to the object, these pieces are categorized as...

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The Omer Fast theory: “Everything that rises must converge” to sex

by Stefano Pirovano

Here is how Omer Fast wrote a seminal chapter in the relation between art and sexuality, by talking about solitude...

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The multi-faceted Louis Delaport: an inspiring character for the new generation of art collectors

According to the exhibition “Angkor, naissance d’un mythe”, currently at the Musée Guimet in Paris, Louis Delaport was not only...

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Christian Rosa: when the market is faster than critics and curators

His curriculum vitae is as thin as a painting stroke. Nevertheless, rumors say that Francesco Bonami recently convinced collector Patrizia...

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Happy birthday Mr. Bronzino

Angelo Bronzino was born exactly 510 years ago (Agnolo di Cosimo, November 17, 1503 – November 23, 1572, usually known...

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"Still Life with Flowers and objects", 1843, Massimo D’Azeglio, Gam, Turin, Italy

How can we calculate the value of an ancient work of art? A short love story…

How can we calculate the value of an ancient work of art? Is it that value linked to its history?...

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When fireworks and artworks have something in common: a group show with Paul Cowan and other nine artists, currently at Cell Project Space

On November the 7th, the sky outside Cell Project Space was lit by the trajectory of a firework. The following...

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Looking behind Ella Kruglyanskaya’s painting

This photo was taken a few days ago in Turin, inside the storage of Artissima. The guy who is unwrapping...

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Sick of your mass luxury items? Try with the culture symbols

In a developed society most of the objects of luxury and mass luxury are also regarded as status symbols. Cars,...

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Homesickness: the masterpiece by Andrea della Robbia in the Paul and Gill Ruddock Gallery at the V&A

There is a room, n.50 in the Victoria & Albert museum, dedicated to a spectacular collection of Italian Renaissance sculpture....

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"The Raft" (2004), video, Bill Viola

Bill Viola and the importance of making visible what can not be seen

Bill Viola will go on show (from November 23rd to February 20th) in the Palazzo Te, Mantova. It is not...

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"Silver Car Crash 3 (Double Disaster)", 1963, Andy Warhol

Can we look at the works by Andy Warhol through new means?

Christie’s (on November, 12) will offer one of the most famous Pop Art masterworks by Andy Warhol as the highlight...

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Dakis Joannou’s impulse for design (and objects)

November is the last month to visit the exhibition “The system of objects – The Dakis Joannou collection reloaded by...

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The third episode of the Parisian trilogy of dreams: Philippe Parreno at the Palais de Tokyo

The third episode of the trilogy about dreams currently on show in Paris is the epic Philippe Parreno’s retrospective at...

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The transfigured transfiguration: shaping Giovanni Bellini’s fragments

The meaning of the word transfiguration is: “a complete change of form or appearance into a more beautiful or spiritual...

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Elmgreen&Dragset with “Tomorrow” at the V&A: the exhibition begins when you are back home

The script of an “unrealized film by Elmgreen and Dragset” that your are invited to take at the entrance of...

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Today is the last day of Giuseppe Penone’s seminal show at Versailles. Conceptual fine arts dialogues with the master (not talking about Arte Povera)

  Conceptuafinearts: Could you tell us something about the working method that produced the works exhibited in the Palace of...

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Why to pay a huge amount of money for a minor piece by an old master when you can buy a masterpiece from an emerging artist?

This view depicts a mill that belonged to Constable’s father, the sluice and lock gate on the river Stour, and...

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Great art is about art, as Roy Lichtenstein demonstrates (at the Centre Pompidou)

If you are planning to visit the great retrospective exhibition about Roy Lichtenstein currently at the Centre Pompidou (until 4 November),...

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From Nan Goldin to old masters, and return

Her friends say that Nan Goldin, the spiritual mother of some of the most influential photographers of the last two...

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The essence of Conceptual Fine Arts captured in a photo (by Thomas Struth)

At Christie’s auction, on October 18, in London, the best performance for medium was linked to photographic works. Of the...

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