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Summer 2013: the Capanna Mollino is closed and not well kept

The architect, photographer and race cars driver Carlo Mollino designed this uncommon mountain building in 1946. It was finished by...

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In dialogue with Bice Curiger about her “Riotous Baroque”

by Stefano Pirovano

We sat down with curator Bice Curiger, to talk about her ongoing dialogue with contemporary art and art from the...

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Candida Höfer: a museum is the ghost, the dream and the memory of a lost ready made

Nowadays many exhibitions approach the ancient and the contemporary in a superficial way. They do not create an effective relationship between the past and the present. Contemporary works, for example, are...

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Ercole Procaccini and The Chapel of the Crucifix in San Marco Church, Milan

The Chapel of the crucifix, also known as Chapel of the compassion, was added to San Marco Church in Milan...

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In dialogue with Penelope Curtis, Tate Britain’s director

  We have met Penelope Curtis at the MiArt, in Milan, a few days ago. Here a synthesis of our...

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Dan Flavin in the Chiesa Rossa, Milan

“Untitled”, installed at the church of Santa Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa, Milan, is the last artwork Dan Flavin did...

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Bill Viola in San Marco church, MIlan

“The Path” by Bill Viola, one of the fathers of video art, is a three-screen panoramic moving image of individuals walking through...

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Uli Sigg, the Chinese contemporary art inventor (an interview)

by Stefano Pirovano

CFA sat down with Uli Sigg, the visionary collector who is shaping Chinese contemporary art and its future in the...

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Coincidences in 1976: José Saramago’s Manual and Francis Bacon’s autoportrait

  Anyone who paints portraits portrays himself. Therefore, the important thing is not the model but the painterand the portrait...

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Tiepolo versus Hockney, painting in motion

We know of two paintings by Giambattista Tiepolo. Works that seem to have no connection with each other. Instead, we...

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Andrea Palladio deserves more than a name dropping show

After an accurate project of restoration started in 2007, the famous Basilica by Andrea Palladio in Vicenza has been recently...

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The last Grande Cantoria is back

Venice. Fifteen years have passed since the Grande Cantoria of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco was rediscovered at the...

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Destination Purgatory

Along the ancient road of the Tribunali, in Naples, is the church of Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio ad...

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When attitudes become forms reloaded in Venice by Fondazione Prada

  Thanks to the Prada Foundation, the seminal show curated by Harald Szeemann in 1969 (Live in your head: when...

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Rudolf Stingel and the lost old masters at Palazzo Grassi

by gerolamo scacchi

  Inspired to the couch on which patients of Sigmud Freud faced their dreams, the installation by Rudolf Stingel now...

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