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marcel duchamp

When Marcel Duchamp explained how a ready-made is to be made

by Stefano Pirovano

Here is a transcription and English version of the letter by which Marcel Duchamp founded the 'ready-made' practice. It all...

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Did you know Marcel Duchamp was an excellent painter?

  The exhibition that the Centre Pompidou is devoting to Marcel Duchamp – Painting, Even – is the first one...

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Ann Demeester and the Kunsthaus at the Zurich Art Weekend (an interview)

by Stefano Pirovano

On the occasion of the 2025 Zurich Art Weekend, we interviewed Ann Demeester, who brought the Kunstmuseum back into the...

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Isabella Stewart Gardner, Katherine Sofie Dreier, Colette Allendy, Hester Diamond

by Carlo Prada

Against the idea that art should be reduced to mere interior decoration, here is a selection of collectors who have...

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Louis Osmosis is staging a social comedy

by Carlo Prada

Louis Osmosis contextualizes each element by what is next to it, so as to make interpretation potentially endless

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Nevine Mahmoud,

Nevine Mahmoud: the implications of pleasure

by Niccolò Gravina

The heart of the practice of Nevine Mahmoud is the expressive recreation of a symbolic process which takes shape in...

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Cassidy Toner, gambling as a career plan

by Paolo Baggi

Cassidy Toner stages repeated artistic misfires to better diffuse anxiety, pressure to perform, or the legibility of an artwork

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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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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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Huang Yu art collection

Huang Yu and the multiplicity of Chinese art scenes

by Ricko Leung

We interviewed Huang Yu, Chinese art collector and co-founder of Art Chengdu International Contemporary Art Fair, to learn how he...

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Margaret Lee: What You See Is What You Mean

by Emile Rubino

Thinking through Margaret Lee’s recent paintings in light of the compound visual language the artist has been developing over the...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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In preparation for the debut of Jill Mulleady at Galerie Neu

by Stefano Pirovano

First solo show of Jill Mulleady at Neu marks a decisive step forward in her career. We sat down with...

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B. Wurtz, Kitchen Trees, 2018. Stainless steel frame with powder coated colanders, aluminum and stainless steel pots and pans, and plastic fruits and vegetables. Courtesy of the artist; Metro Pictures, New York; Kate MacGarry, London; Maisterravalbuena Madrid/Lisboa; Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles. Photo: Jason Wyche, Courtesy of Public Art Fund, NY.

B. Wurtz: how to rule over readymades and help art students (an interview)

On occasion of his New York's Public Art Fund commission, B. Wurtz sheds some light on his interpretation of the...

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Shining a light into Adam Gordon’s darkness

by Paul Laster

New York-based artist Adam Gordon is melding painting with installation and photography, but it’s not the medium itself that he...

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