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Velázquez and why even masterpieces need titles

by Antonio Carnevale

La Meninas is Velázquez's most famous masterpiece. However, another of his paintings shows us how words can change our view...

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Daniele Milvio: twenty ink drawings

Conceptual Fine Arts and Galleria Federico Vavassori present twenty previously unpublished works by Daniele Milvio, executed between 2012 and 2013...

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Emerging artists to watch: Matthieu Haberard

by Sonia D'Alto

Anything can happen on the threshold, like Matthieu Haberard's practice, an innocent game of fairy tales, an adventurous story of...

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From Victoria Colmegna to Victoria Colmegna

by Stefano Pirovano

A short story of how Victoria Colmegna's lightness, shyness, esotericism and nostalgia remind us that the longest journey is the...

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Five self-portraits at the time of surveillance capitalism

by Antonio Carnevale

What takes you from facial recognition algorithms to a museum of ancient art? The hope of finding an antidote to...

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From grades to tales: how Pop Art undermined the art writer

by Piero Bisello

A brief, documented history of how Pop art changed art writing, including a few philosophical ideas for the art writer...

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Sylvain Bellenger on the online future of museums

by Stefano Pirovano

An Interview: Sylvain Bellenger, director of Capodimonte, takes stock of the current situation and predicts the digital future of museums.

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Culture will save the art market, not a viewing room

by Stefano Pirovano

Online art fairs still have to find their way. Galleries are suffering. But focusing on culture might be the key...

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Global Cows 2020

A collaboration with Brussels-based gallery Damien & The Love Guru, Global Cows 2020 presents a double digital fresco companion to...

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What do you know about Renaissance shadow?

by Antonio Carnevale

The evolution of painting could also be captured by chasing shadows. An itinerary among five less known masters to be...

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Top 10 artist websites

by Stefano Pirovano & Piero Bisello

Here is our (temporary) selection of 10 great personal websites of contemporary artists, chosen among both internet litterates and not.

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Honoré de Balzac’s Frenhofer and his Unknown Masterpiece

by Antonio Carnevale

Artist Frenhofer, protagonist of The Unknown Masterpiece by Balzac, never fails to raise questions. Especially if you 'reverse' him.

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Nostalgia and Neutrality in the work of Jasmin Werner

by Chloe Stead

Emerging artist Jasmin Werner exposes biases in architecture and design, showing that nostalgia is more than mere contemplation of the...

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Joanna Kamm on the present of emerging art (an interview)

by Piero Bisello

Director Joanna Kamm sheds some light on Liste's strategies to tackle the current situation through solidarity and risk taking.

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Lucy Stein: Digitalis purpurea, a re(in)trospective

by Stefano Pirovano

Vieni! E fu molta la dolcezza! molta! / tanta, che, vedi… (l’altra lo stupore / alza degli occhi, e vede...

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Malevich honors laziness in his prophecy

by Antonio Carnevale

A century ago, Kazimir Malevich lauded the value of laziness as opposed to work. Today, his words are a window...

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To be discovered: five unusual Renaissance pictures of wild animals

by Piero Bisello

Five unusual pictures of wild animals from the Renaissance provide an insight into the human/beast relationship, situating it between myth...

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Peter Saul and the importance of having a salary (an interview)

by Paul Laster

On occasion of his retrospective exhibition at the New Museum we met with Peter Saul, who told us how freedom...

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Antonello da Messina Saint Sebastian

Antonello da Messina’s note for Mantegna is in Sebastian’s navel

by Antonio Carnevale

Antonello da Messina painted Saint Sebastian to ward off the plague. And he hid a mystery in the navel of...

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Global monotone of Lombardy (an online exhibition)

by Stefano Pirovano

A show dedicated to monotony and to the anchoring effect. Works by: Lucas Blalock, Peppi Bottrop, Francesco Gennari, Adam Gordon,...

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Kengné Téguia’s concentric circles

by Piero Bisello

Kengné Téguia's artworks are objects that call forth to grasp the artist's own questions, as well the meanings in their...

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Lisa Dalfino & Sacha Kanah, living and non-living beings

by Stefano Pirovano

Introduction to the work of Lisa Dalfino and Sacha Kanah starting from their second solo exhibition at Clima gallery in...

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Disclosure & Disbelief: Kaloki Nyamai at the Stellenbosch Triennale

by Zihan Kassam

Kaloki Nyamai hits a nerve at the Stellenbosch Triennale with his provocative installation about about race, false borders and shared...

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Best museum displays: it’s time to go back to our roots

by Stefano Pirovano

A virtual journey through museum displays that have marked European art history. Enforced closure may soon offer an opportunity to...

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Lucas Blalock: a criminal, a lover, an old man, a policeman, an artist, a spy, a nice guy

by Emile Rubino

An in depth look at Lucas Blalock’s performative approach to photography, and the dynamic relationship to art history at play...

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Scholar and art collector Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, an interview

by Paul Laster

What happens when human studies lead the soul of a natural born art collector? We asked Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi.

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COVID-19: art is that window you need to keep open

by Stefano Pirovano

While the Coronavirus is rescheduling 2020 art world's agenda, someone may think it is the time to get smart and...

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Renata Boero by Paolo Fossati (anno 1977)

by Piero Bisello

We propose a translation and contextualization of a 1977 text by seminal art historian Paolo Fossati about Renata Boero's painting.

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Do I still have to call it art magazine?

by Stefano Pirovano

Digital media has been rapidly changing the way the art world is communicating. Here is how art agencies step in...

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Simone Peterzano: master of Caravaggio and censorship’s survivor

by Antonio Carnevale

Simone Peterzano was a pupil of Tiziano, and the master of Caravaggio. But he had to compromise with the Church....

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Closer to Van Eyck with Bart Fransen & VERONA project

by Piero Bisello

Contemporary technology and restoration have revealed a new Van Eyck. We discuss these topics with the director of the VERONA...

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