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Is the Italian Government seriously disposed to lend hotels the artworks preserved in museums’ storage?

As reported by Adnkronos press agency a couple of days ago, Ilaria Borletti Buitoni, the Italian “sottosegretario alla cultura” – who...

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A look at Ingres to expand Jack McConville’s “heroic frenzies” currently in Los Angeles

Placed somewhere between drawing and painting, this image recently presented by Jack McConville in a solo exhibition at Ibid. Los...

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News from Pisa: heated canvases will protect Buffalmacco’s fresco from condensation

The complex operations running in Pisa to bring back the notorious frescoes of the Campo Santo (the medioeval city’s cemetery)...

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At the Middelheim Museum time is a constructive reality (featured by artist Kader Attia and the Cave Painters)

Surely one of the most important sculpture parks in Belgium, the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp hosts more than 200 outdoor...

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Is philosopher Graham Harman’s speculative realism really inspiring a new art critique?

Philosopher Graham Harman, also included on ArtReview’s list of the most powerful personalities in 2014 the artworld, has indeed been...

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Last days to play with Richard Tuttle’s System VI

If there was a soundtrack for Richard Tuttle’s assemblages it might include his mother exclaiming, “What have you been up...

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At the Musée du Luxembourg to learn Paul Durand-Ruel’s lesson: defend art above all else

To picture the career of someone who had purchased closed to 12.000 artworks during his life is a difficult task...

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Goodbye Nada Miami Beach, Je F* t’aime!

New York Observer’s Nate Freeman mistook me for an art dealer, and in his text about NADA Miami Beach wrote that if...

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What will be remembered about Miami art week 2014?

Sometimes the glossy Art Basel Miami Beach is less attractive than the parallel exhibitions and the satellite events that surround...

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Soon an international call to direct the 10 leading Italian museums (including the Uffizi)

The reform of the Italian Ministero dei Beni e della Attività Culturali, finally published a few days ago in the...

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The Dominic Samsworth’s case: can artists be the most compelling writers about their own work?

  In this article we would like to address the fairly recent practice of exhibition press releases: texts written for...

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The winning model: Louvre Lens celebrates its second birthday

    With the opening to the public of a comprehensive exhibition dedicated to animals in Ancient Egypt (more than...

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Visit Gustave Moreau’s atelier and become suspicious of certain unproductive emerging artists

  In a couple of months the refurbishing of the charming Musée national Gustave Moreau in Paris, 14 rue de...

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Julia Rommel’s intimate conversations on definite at Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels

    Once again, despite its catchy name, Brussels gallery Sorry We’re Closed has recently opened its doors and lit up...

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The small barrel preserves the best wine: Paris Tableaux 2014

  In Paris, at Palais Brongniart, while the Grand Palais is hosting a lackluster edition of Paris Photo, the fourth...

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History of art in a personal theatre: seminal Paul Delvaux’s retrospective at the Musée D’Ixelles

  Taking inspiration from what the introductory flyer suggests, we decided to visit the recent exhibition of Paul Delvaux at...

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Also at the Turin’s art week the conservative looks young, but the smart collector is going back

  When the contemporary art fair Artissima takes over Turin for a week a year ‘all art is contemporary’, but...

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Modern & Impressionists’ record asserts the Loeb effect on Sotheby’s

    The therapy that Third Point LLC founder and art collector Daniel Loeb prescribed for Sotheby’s, that also includes...

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At the Royal Academy for the first comprehensive G.B. Moroni’s solo in the UK

  What we would suggest if you are visiting the exhibition that the Royal Academy in London is currently dedicating...

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The explosive relationship between Fontana and Klein under investigation in Milan

  “Fontana! Stop making cuts”: signed Lucio Fontana. If you could peek on the backside of his paintings, you would...

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