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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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The Sultan’s World according to Renaissance Art: at BOZAR Europe welcomes the Ottomans

“The Sultan’s World, The Ottoman Orient in Renaissance Art” is a very accurate exhibition handling a subject – the representation...

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The smallest Armory Show in many years looks at warm countries

  New York is like a big pond of mud and today, Thursday, the temperature is -6C. We are pretty...

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Hauser & Wirth Somerset

Pipilotti Rist at Hauser&Wirth Somerset: are you looking for ways to decentralise culture?

Returning to Hauser & Wirth Somerset for a second time (our first visit was reported on CFA six months ago)...

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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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At the Secession artwork and poetry clinch in Ugo Rondinone’s ring

“Poets and artists express a view of the world as a collage of passing fragments, there is no bigger picture...

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Focus on Qatar: the first step is to discover the “Here and There” scheme

Out of our list of the nine main art institutions due to open in the next five years, two of...

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Last day for visting Almine Rech’s seminal parody of the artscape

French gallerist Almine Rech’s private life has been circulating quite freely online especially after an extensive reportage about her published...

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Alberto Burri’s centenary exhibition cancelled by Charlie Hebdo

When Fondazione Burri sent us the notification about an exhibition of the post-war Italian master Alberto Burri at the European...

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Chantal Joffe’s people at The Jerwood Gallery, or how international art can work so locally

On first entering the Jerwood Gallery, we are confronted by a large (over life-size) oil painting of a naked man....

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Will the artist-as-a-researcher save contemporary art galleries’ analog future?

Critical discourse about the artist as researcher has been around in Europe at least since the implementation of Bologna process...

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Sotheby’s Masters Week in NY beyond expectation, also thanks to an Italian dealer and philantropist

Sotheby’s annual Masters Week sales in New York has been a success, even greater than what we expected. The four...

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Sanya Kantarovsky: narrative snapshots for bigger plots (currently at Marc Foxx)

  During our interviews with artists, we often ask them to name a novel that would be comparable to their...

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Tomorrow at Sotheby’s NY an auction that hardly will be forgotten

As art dealer and collector Fabrizio Moretti declares in the piercing video interview given to Edoardo Roberti, Sotheby’s Old Masters...

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What is the price to pay to have priceless artworks?

  The amount of information related to art is increasing enormously, thus becoming extraordinary persistent, and actually accessible, if compared...

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Los Angeles and NYC to host Andrea del Sarto’s first show in the US (but Lucrezia is not welcome)

Among this year’s most awaited exhibitions there is the one dedicated to the Florentine late Renaissance master Andrea del Sarto,...

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The seminal meeting in which Carol Bove kissed master Carlo Scarpa

Half based on isolation, both temporal and spatial, of certain poetic objects such as books, shells, drift woods or peacock...

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Can the Pope abolish hell and make peace with contemporary art?

We recently visited the Vatican Museums during a day that, according to the staff we spoke to, was even busier...

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Goshka Macuga possibly in the pipeline at the new Fondazione Prada in Milan

The new awaited venue of the Fondazione Prada, a former distillery located in the south part of Milan, will open...

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7 questions to protect the good artists from Zombie criticism

Generally the end of the solar year is the time when the “lists” are published, and the main part of...

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