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Amy O’Neill: costumes for disappearing

by Rita Selvaggio

The practice of Amy O’Neill moves according to a politics of the residual; costumes, masks, reversed parades are what remains...

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Young-jun Tak: Twelve, Twelve, Twelve

by Stefano Pirovano

Young-jun Tak responds to six words that clarify the mentality behind his work's noble simplicity and quiet grandeur.

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Suzanne Santoro: Femaleness

by Giada Biaggi

Suzanne Santoro believes that art must infiltrate complex systems, taking over spaces that exploit the female body to subvert them.

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Serban Savu (a conversation)

by Georgiana But

We sat down with Serban Savu, the painter who represented Romania at the Venice Biennale with a huge social polyptych.

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Jasmine Gregory: to be, or to seem?

by Stefano Pirovano

Jasmine Gregory asks us what we really mean to be while anticipating that the answer for some will be a...

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Liste 2024: ephemeral and permanence in six galleries

by Carlo Prada

In 2024 Liste is about relationships: between man and environment, time and memory, loss and death. Here is our six...

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Zurich, the Art Weekend’s capital

by Guido Furbesco

You need to know Zurich's background to understand why its Art Weekend is more than just the smartest preface to...

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"Mihrdukht Aims her Arrow at the Ring," Folio from the Hamzanama (The Adventures of Hamza) Basawan (Indian, active ca. 1556–1600) ca. 1570 Country of Origin India Opaque color and gold on cotton cloth 67.8 x 52 cm Howard Hodgkin Collection, Purchase, The Mossavar- Rahmani Fund for Iranian Art, 2022 2022.170

The Howard Hodgkin collection of Indian court paintings

by Marta Galli

Howard Hodgkin approach to collecting had nothing to do with art history. What mattered to him was how each piece...

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On artist, psychiatrist, and collector Roman Buxbaum (and Miroslav Tichý)

by Céline Mathieu

A portrait of Roman Buxbaum, initiator of the Tichy Ocean Foundation in Zurich and custodian of the Artists for Tichy...

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Six highlights from Paris Internationale 2022

by CFA (from Paris)

Here are our picks from the eighth edition of Paris Internationale, one of the biggest and most ambitious yet

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Brussels Gallery Weekend 2022: five top solo exhibitions

by CFA (from Brussels)

Foulon, Katambayi, Walter, Zahle, Werner: our favorite exhibitions from this year's Brussels Gallery Weekend

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Is it really the time to buy old masters?

by Stefano Pirovano

The wisdom of collecting old masters today, explained in four compelling arguments (that we didn't already know)

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Four picks from June Art Fair 2022

by CFA (from Basel)

What we enjoyed the most at June Art Fair, the youngest and most up-and-coming fair to populate the Art Basel...

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Four picks from Liste 2022

by CFA (from Basel)

Four highlights from this year's edition of Liste, Basel's great historical fair for emerging artists and galleries

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Three emerging favourites at Art Brussels 2022

by CFA (from Brussels)

Three picks from the emerging stratum of the art market, found in the first post-pandemic edition of Art Brussels

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International Galleries Alliance: the benefits of joining forces for the art market

by Stefano Pirovano

The new-born International Galleries Alliance could soon become a milestone in contemporary art's evolution. Here's why

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Mike Winkelmann alisas Beeple

Mike Winkelmann, aka Beeple, is not Roger Federer

by Stefano Pirovano

Mike Winkelmann aka Beeple is the first artist to sell a blockchain-based artwork at a main auction house. But it's...

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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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Marta Gnyp’s explanation of the art world today

by João G. Rizek

Marta Gnyp's The Shift has come to its second edition. Is the art world still a place of speculation, navel-gazing,...

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Digital old masters in actuality

by Piero Bisello

Digital old masters are a thing now more than ever, but much is still to be learned. We look at...

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