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The artistic fate of the wind

by Silvia Tomasi

Over the centuries, the wind has always been an iconographic presence for artists, touching upon fate, religion, chaos, love, and...

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Estrid Lutz and rootless cyberpunks today

by Piero Bisello

Estrid Lutz's dislike for finishedness, common beauty and constrains makes her a kin to previous renovators of punk attitudes (and...

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Vilnius CAC: an interview with the director Kestutis Kuizinas

by Denis Maksimov

From palace of culture to contemporary art centre, from Soviet art festival to Baltic Triennial: an interview with CAC director...

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On Giulio Romano’s tableware designs

by Esme Garlake

Tableware designed by Giulio Romano invites us to re-consider the false binary between works of art and functional objects.

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Joseph Yoakum and adventurous facts

by Sophie Varin

Joseph Yoakum has us going between the mundane quality of things in front of us and the extra-ordinary quality of...

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Paolo Pagani and the marvels of transformation

by Antonio Carnevale

Between failed aristocratic ambition and ungraspable styles, Paolo Pagani is the forgotten figure of Italian Baroque painting.

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Justine Neuberger: coughing up a strand of angel hair

by Céline Mathieu

Preferring her goofier, odder doodles, Justine Neuberger develops her swirly figures. "And then there is what the paint wants to...

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Latifa Echakhch and seeing things as if they’re vibrating (an interview)

by Haseeb Ahmed

Latifa Echakhch on her upcoming pavilion at the Venice Biennale, her recent inclusion in the Swiss Institute board, and intimate...

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Jeff Koons, “New Hoover Deluxe Shampoo Polishers

Symbol by symbol, dust piles up

by Silvia Tomasi

Read about artists' obsession with dust, from enigmatic depictions in 16th and 17th century painting to post-war imagery and symbols

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Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy and the Kunstinstituut Melly (an interview)

by Sofia Dati

Following the Name Change Initiative launched by Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Kunstinstituut Melly embarks on a new trajectory

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Every ticket wins: hyperpositivity in the work of Elif Saydam

by Miriam Bettin

Elif Saydam’s references are literal but overstimulating. The overflow of information makes you at times dizzy—and tired

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Josefine Reisch: if history is a stage

by Veronica Gisondi

Josefine Reisch and not letting yourself "become part of the killer story." An essay inspired by the carrier bag theory...

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Death helps life in the anatomical theatre

by Silvia Tomasi

Anatomical theatres were the literal and metaphorical houses of anthropocentrism. Are they resuscitating today?

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Denicolai & Provoost and six artist comics

by Piero Bisello

What are artist comics really? A selection of six best examples from the collection of Belgian artist duo Denicolai &...

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Larissa De Jesús Negrón’s path to enlightenment

by Veronica Gisondi

"Things tend to build up and then you’re left with a bunch of anxiety and jealousy that you don’t understand."...

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Alternatives from the periphery: Pierre-Olivier Rollin and the BPS22 (an interview)

by Sonia D'Alto

How do global politics from the province look like? An interview with Pierre-Olivier Rollin, the director of BPS22 in Charleroi

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Luca Pacioli and the mathematical Renaissance

by Antonio Carnevale

The Renaissance mathematician Luca Pacioli is the crystalline symbol of his shattered dream: an orderly word expressed in numbers

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Elene Chantladze: where art lands

by Stefano Pirovano

An artist by instinct and not by profession, Georgian Elene Chantladze shows the self-confidence of an established master

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Ser Serpas walks

by Dora Budor

Ser Serpas skims the surfaces of the streets and lots, "attempting to rip something from the refuse piles"

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Horace Pippin is a misunderstood realist

by Sofia Silva

Labels such as "primitive," "naive," and "folk" can conceal prejudice and racism. Horace Pippin was a realist instead

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Frankenstein Magazine is out for a game

by Stefano Pirovano

If you are tired of being stuck at home, a comic book with no comic book artist is there to...

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To the zodiac and back

by Silvia Tomasi

Phaethon changes sex, the gods are sick, the Earth is burned, the seas are drained: the zodiac is all these...

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Some of Jean Katambayi Mukendi so far

by Piero Bisello

Some the most salient aspects of the Jean Katambayi Mukendi's art, between Lubumbashi, Brussels and New York

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HC: thinking with more than one mind

by Francesco Tenaglia

What or who is HC, really? "Its humorous approach proved to be a pretty efficient tool to create unexpected situations."

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Carlo Crivelli

The annoying fly and symbolic paintings

by Silvia Tomasi

Flies buzz around a few Renaissance, Netherlandish and Baroque paintings, full of jokes, meanings, and hellish symbolism

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Mike Winkelmann alisas Beeple

Mike Winkelmann, aka Beeple, is not Roger Federer

by Stefano Pirovano

Mike Winkelmann aka Beeple is the first artist to sell a blockchain-based artwork at a main auction house. But it's...

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Raffaela Naldi Rossano’s invocation of the ancestors

by Sonia D'Alto

Raffaela Naldi Rossano shows how genius loci and personal memory come together in the search for an alternative society

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The best six art fabricators

by Piero Bisello

Here is a list of the world's best art fabricators, showing that behind the most ambitious works there is often...

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Bringing light and liberation: Dalila Dalléas Bouzar

by Ricko Leung

Dalila Dalléas Bouzar questions colonialism and patriarchy, trying to turn art into an instrument of liberation

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The typographic utopia of Tallone Editore

by Antonio Carnevale

A journey to the printing atelier of Tallone Editore, where a Renaissance approach to publishing mix with the present

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Marta Gnyp’s explanation of the art world today

by João G. Rizek

Marta Gnyp's The Shift has come to its second edition. Is the art world still a place of speculation, navel-gazing,...

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