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calder comb MoMa collection

What are combs for besides untying knots?

by Silvia Tomasi

The answer to combs collecting lies in the artists' creativity, from the Etruscans, to Füssli, Man Ray, Picasso, Dalí, Calder...

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At the show with the artist: Jennifer Tee and Renaissance Rugs

by Piero Bisello

We speak with Jennifer Tee about Renaissance rugs, using history of textiles to reflect on the appropriation of visual cultures...

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Adriaen Coorte Rijksmuseum

The symbolic, erotic, and lunar asparagus

by Silvia Tomasi

Through Flemish painting, Manet, Max Ernst, Andreas Gursky, and Hannah Levy, we start to believe that the asparagus has feelings...

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Marina Pinsky, Truck with wall drawing (detail), 2020. © Eden Krsmanovic / Courtesy of the artist and CLEARING New York, Brussels

Marina Pinsky: it’s the images that are worth repeating

by Julia Mullié

An encompassing essay on Marina Pinsky's oeuvre, unfolding her critical narrative of images, technology and local histories.

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Luigi Zuccheri, Untitled (Cespuglio con faina, calabrone e frate), 1950/55, tempera on board, 40x45 cm.

Luigi Zuccheri, the accidental modernist

by Sofia Silva

A 20th century, ancient Venetian painter who found himself modern by chance, Luigi Zuccheri pushed localism to the limit.

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A suspicious dialogue between artists Francesco João and Sven Sachsalber

by Stefano Pirovano, Francesco João, Sven Sachsalber

Artists talk to each other pretty often, and so do Francesco João and Sven Sachsalber about controversial sports figures, biking,...

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Antonello Cristo alla colonna

The figure of the rope between gore, eros and faith

by Silvia Tomasi

Goya, Lady Gaga, Man Ray, Giulio Paolini, Georg Baselitz, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Antonello & co., all tied together to...

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Bathing for gourmets: an interview with Leonard Koren

by Piero Bisello

We look into fine bathing and the pleasure of inefficiency through an interview with artist, aesthete, and polemist Leonard Koren.

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Veronese part

Why take an artwork from the place it was made for?

by Antonio Carnevale

Bringing works of art out of museums and back to their places of origin is what we should do: the...

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a painted interior

Not afraid of craft: the Van der Kelen Logelain school of decorative painting

by Piero Bisello

We feature the Van der Kelen Logelain school of decorative painting in Brussels, a recognized springboard for important contemporary and...

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Francesco Clemente, iconology of “il mio corpo è rosso per formaggio”

by Stefano Pirovano

Francesco Clemente painted 'Il mio corpo è rosso per formaggio' around 1980, the year of his first participation in the...

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Diego Perrone

No leap is ever into the void

by Silvia Tomasi

A saga of artist jumps through the work of Hsieh, Mureșan, de Dominicis, Perrone, in the wake of Yves Klein's...

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cigarette butts on large indoor sand dunes

At the show with the artist: Gabriel Kuri on Lucio Fontana

by Piero Bisello

An exchange with Gabriel Kuri on Lucio Fontana's "Ambiente Spaziale," exploring the boundaries of installation and sculpture in both artists'...

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Who says crises foster creativity?

by Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes

For those who still believe that suffering yields good art, we show that plagues, wars, and oppression have never been...

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Jaanus Samma, the many gay histories of Modern Eastern Europe

by Agata Pyzik

Emerging artist Jaanus Samma deals with stories of homosexuality in his home country of Estonia, both under the Communist regime...

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An open letter to Italian museums: the web is your vaccine

by Conceptual Fine Arts

Media dilettantism and digital ignorance can harm Italian museums, which should be aware of their cultural role in society and...

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Emerging artists to watch: Kaoru Arima and his facial (un)recognition

by Piero Bisello

Kaoru Arima's pictures of faces are paintings for an alternative, straightforward portraiture: romanticism no more; agendas no more; ego no...

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Emmanuel Nassar: art is the illegal exercise of all the professions

by Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes

We sat down with Brazilian Pop master Emmanuel Nassar to talk about art, symbols, advertising, and the importance of visiting...

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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

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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an oversized wooden sword

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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Boccioni-Autoritratto-verso

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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a can of spam meat flying below a huge written word "spam"

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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Francesco-del-Cossa particolare

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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a rottern mac computer in an overgrown forest

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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Poussin

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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