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At NY art week’s auctions: masters fly, youngsters resist, Bonami stumbles

12th May, the Sotheby’s auction opening the contemporary art week in New York started off with a bang: Mark Bradford...

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Why there is no Qatar pavilion at the Venice Biennale yet?

Rome wasn’t built in a day. Despite the conspicuous investments in visual arts that Doha has made during the last...

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Gauguin’ show at Fondation Beyeler: “Beware of luxury!” Paul said

To the Fondation Beyeler’s curatorial staff it took six years of hard work and sophisticated diplomacy to realize what will...

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A new gallery designed by Kuehn Malvezzi respects the rule: take a step back

Art, especially New Art, needs time and space to be developed and displayed. With this idea in mind, in the...

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Venice, first main show about the Marchesa Luisa Casati

by Stefano Pirovano

Palazzo Fortuny in Venice hosts the first major exhibition dedicated to the Marchesa Luisa Casati and her extraordinary life

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Roman series: the new venue of the Fondazione Prada will open in Milan under the influence of classic sculptures

Nothing has been officially confirmed yet, but rumours say that the opening exhibition of the new Fondazione Prada in Milan,...

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Leading contemporary artists get inspired by Pieter Coecke van Aelst: soon at the Met the golden age of tapestry will give you some tips

  The upcoming exhibition titled Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry, recently announced by the Metropolitan Museum...

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Torbjorn Rodland, ACV09, 2009, silver gelatin print on baryta paper, 27.7 cm x 22.3 cm x 3 cm (10-7/8" x 8-3/4" x 1-3/16"). Courtesy the artist.

Mapping the comics trend at Pace London

    The upcoming exhibition “Everything falls faster than an anvil” at Pace London is not the last art cocktail mixing...

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Mr. Falckenberg please choose: does every era get the art it deserves or is every work of art the child of its age?

    Some days ago we have discussed about the essay published one Mousse magazine by Jens Hoffmann. It follows...

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Type or masterpiece? When the size is the main variable

A couple of days ago, Christie’s international head of postwar and contemporary art, Brett Gorvy, told to the French financial...

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John Water, Playdate, 2006. Courtesy of Sprueth Magers, Berlin.

What if Michael Jackson and Charles Manson had met each other before their lives went wrong?

  Who can play the role of the genius better than John Waters in the art world? Probably no one,...

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At the centre, Quarto Stato's sketches, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo's studio, Volpedo, Italy.

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo in The Still House

  It takes less than an hour driving from Milan to reach Volpedo, but international tourists and art lovers don’t...

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Ramon Casas, Before the bath, 1894. Detail.

At the Forte di Bard, Italy, for an enlightening dialogue about contemporary art with P. Josep Maria Soler, Abbot of the famous Montserrat Abbey

  The Forte di Bard is one of the rare Italian cultural institutions with enough budget to run properly, thanks...

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Yoan Mudry

  The Swiss artist Yoan Mudry is 24 years old and, according to his cv, he has been educated in Geneva,...

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Our first post of 2014 is writer Alain Elkann interviewing Fabrizio Moretti, gallery owner, collector, philantrophist and beloved publisher of Conceptual Fine Arts

Our first post of 2014 is writer Alain Elkann interviewing Fabrizio Moretti, gallery owner, collector, philantrophist and beloved publisher of...

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