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Interview: what do you know about art collector Jeff Koons?

by Stefano Pirovano

  We reached the most celebrated living artist of the world at the phone on 14th September, a week before...

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Fine art collector Jeff Koons to inaugurate the BIAF in Florence: isn’t it smart?

Last night, in a glorious Milanese restaurant, the upcoming edition of the Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato di Firenze was presented to a selected...

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Collector Eduardo Costantini chooses Jeff Koons for his new condo in Miami

Two sculptures by Jeff Koons, bought last year for 14m by Eduardo Costantini, will adorn a magnificent condo that the...

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BIAF 2015 places Koons near Michelangelo promising Florence a new Renaissance

by Stefano Pirovano

The opening days have proved that this year the Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato in Florence has finally become a top event...

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To the new Jeff’s megamaison in NYC Damien replies from Ilfacrombe with 750 new buildings

After a long silence, and while his friend Jeff is entertaining New York City’s summer tourists with a retrospective exhibition...

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NG752: Lippo di Dalmasio, The Madonna of Humility, about 1390 © The National Gallery, London.

Lippo di Dalmasio: pop without knowing it

by Carlo Prada

Lippo di Dalmasio degli Scannabecchi painted in series, signed his works and was a self-promoter, like the masters of the...

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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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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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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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Sol LeWitt legacy comes to light at Fondazione Carriero

by Stefano Pirovano

An exhibition at Fondazione Carriero questions Sol LeWitt long lasting method. But is still the idea the most important aspect...

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“I’ve always done parodies of what a painting is supposed to be”

by Paul Laster

Ashley Bickerton first retrospective show is taking place in New York. CFA interviewed the artist to understand what happened to...

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Kristof Kintera collezione maramotti

Kristof Kintera and human’s monumental smallness

by Stefano Pirovano

A show at Collezione Maramotti shed some light on the fascination of Kristof Kintera for representing human individualism and foolish...

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Mark Leckey: “technology essentially makes you believe in magic” (an interview)

by Paul Laster

A British artist who works in a variety of mediums, Mark Leckey’s first interests were music and technology and much...

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Mona Hatoum at the Tate Modern: are female artists saving the future of contemporary art?

by Geoff Hands

Linda Nochlin, the originator of feminist art history, once asked the thorny question (to men, at least): “Why have there...

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Collector Luiz Augusto Teixeira de Freitas: “Too much art is produced just to feed the market”

by Stefano Pirovano

We met Brazilian lawyer and art collector Luiz Augusto Teixeira de Freitas a few weeks ago in Lisbon, where CFA...

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A 3D dialogue between host Alfredo Aceto, curator Julie Boukobza and CFA’s lateral thinking

by Stefano Pirovano

We met Alfredo Aceto and Julie Boukobza at the dinner party celebrating the artist’s current solo show at Bugada &...

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A distinct trend in 2015? Old masters’ presence in the room of contemporary art

by Stefano Pirovano

  One of the factors that marked 2015 has been the frequent presence of art from the past centuries in...

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‘I have zero interest in being part of good taste culture’: an interview with Lucy McKenzie

by Henry Andersen

In the painted works of Lucy McKenzie, the artist delves deeply into surfaces. At a formal level, her use of...

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10 upcoming museum exhibitions to substitute the coercive Autumn art fairs’ agenda

Autumn will come soon and the art institutions all over the world are getting ready to fulfill the scene with...

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How auctions have been shaping the emerging art scene

It is a matter of fact that the generation of artists born during the Eighties is the first one in...

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