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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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Kazimir Malevič

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

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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Kaloki Nyamai Stellenbosch Triennale

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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Mohamed Melehi

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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Srijon Chowdhury, Airplane, 2018; oil on linen, cm. 40,6 x 30,5 Collection Nerina Ciaccia & Antoine Levi, Paris.

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

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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ole Eisenman

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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Adoration of the shepherds (detail)

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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Portrait of Giovanni Morelli

Giovanni Morelli, the dark connoisseur

by Antonio Carnevale

Art critic and politician Giovanni Morelli played a key role in the history of art. Here is an honest portrait...

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Michael Callies

A chat with Michael Callies, founder of dépendance

by Piero Bisello

dépendance in Brussels is a true artist's gallery. We had a chat with its founder Michael Callies, asking a few...

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Hanna-Maria Hammari

Hanna-Maria Hammari: when nature leads elsewhere

by Stefano Pirovano

Through expressive materials and traditional techniques Hanna-Maria Hammari leads us to tackle the age of surveillance capitalism.

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Michael Portnoy, improves

by Piero Bisello

We delve into the career changes and improvements of New York based artist Michael Portnoy through his work as shoemaker...

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Michael Dean Fondazione Converso

Michael Dean at Fondazione Converso (with Campi bros)

by Stefano Pirovano

Fondazione Converso brings Michael Dean inside San Paolo Converso, the Campi brothers' milanese masterpiece. The End is actually a new...

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James Bradburne and the anthropological revolution of Brera

by Antonio Carnevale

We sat down with director James Bradburne to tell the path that led him to the original didactic approach introduced...

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Sophie Varin reads Thomas Pynchon

by Piero Bisello

For this At The Show With The Artist, Sophie Varin discusses Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 in relation...

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Swallow The Spirit: Michaela Eichwald at dépendance

by Kevin Gallagher

We delve into recurring themes in Michaela Eichwald's painting through another artist's reading of her recent exhibition at dépendance in...

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Than Hussein Clark

A Portrait of Than Hussein Clark

by Piero Bisello

In this essay we paint a portrait of Than Hussein Clark as a hybrid between the figure of the impersonator...

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nora turato

Nora Turato: Proustian interview with afterword

by Stefano Pirovano

We have met Nora Turato, an over educated graphic designer who became a performer artist, to question the information she...

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Museum Rietberg’s director Albert Lutz on art restitution issues

by Marta Galli

We discussed art restitution issues with Albert Lutz, leaving director of Rietberg Museum, Switzerland’s only museum dedicated to non-European art.

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Lorenza Longhi, a turbulence in the realm of perfection

by Stefano Pirovano

The first solo show of Lorenza Longhi at Fanta MLN questions our understanding of perfection by looking into industrial design's...

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