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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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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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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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