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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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Answering three basic questions asked by Antoine de Galbert about the software driven setting of his collection currently on display at La Maison Rouge in Paris

  At page 85 of the “strange”, rather a bit uncomfortable-to-read catalogue of the exhibition dedicated to the collection of...

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Sam Falls: soon in Zurich a body of new works on canvas plus an unforeseen self-portrait

  The upcoming step of Sam Falls’ brilliant career as an artist is going to be his second solo exhibition...

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New Hauser & Wirth Somerset opens debate on art delocalization

by Geoff Hands

The new Hauser & Wirth Somerset: a gallery space or the ultimate art-linked rural community project?

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A hint of genuine French pessimism to remind that too many tourists can easily turn the beauty into a beast

  “Churches, altarpieces, liturgies, impressiveness of offices: the ancient times practised the culture of cult. Museums, “installations”, exhibitions, art fairs:...

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Living a gallery performance by Yvonne Rainer and the endless possibilities of minimal art

Have you experienced that feeling, when leaving the cinema, that the real world you re-enter is tainted by the imaginary,...

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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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Elias Hansen: blown glasses preserving moments of anger

  No writings can better explain the solo show by the conceptual glass-blower Elias Hansen currently at Jonathan Viner, London,...

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A gallery day in London with the young-most-wanted Wyatt Kahn and the established English artist David Blackaller

  One of the fascinating aspects of looking at artworks in galleries (as opposed to reproductions) is the potential paradox...

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At the Palais de Tokyo Hiroshi Sugimoto’s version of the Museum of Innocence

  Placed at the entrance of “The world is dead (Human genetic archive)” – Hiroshi Sugimoto’s massive installation currently at...

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Summer tips: the Fontainebleau’s Imperial Theatre restored thanks to His Highness Al Nahyan

  Last May, after 18 months of restoration, the Château de Fontainebleau had its XIX century Imperial Theatre back. It...

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Last days for Oscar Murillo’ solo at Marian Goodman: an easy software for a functional hardware

  According to the introductory text provided by the gallery, the surprising Oscar Murillo’s solo (until July 18) is the...

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Top six summer group exhibitions 2014

  The art calendar is approaching the summer break and generally this is the period of group shows. But if...

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Different destinies: boy evicted from Venice goes to Basel while the Major is on trial

  A year ago, in Venice, “Boy with frog” by the american artist Charles Ray was removed from Punta della...

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Sterling Ruby, Soft Work, 2011-2013, installation view at Art Basel 2014.

Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby: a new benchmark in the art&fashion category

  The history of the collaboration between artists and fashion brands goes from Piet Mondrian (Yves Saint Laurent, 1965), Andy...

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Art Basel 2014: look for your own path

    An art fair is always an art fair, thus a place where artworks are on exhibition to be...

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Unlimited 2014: the next challenge is length

      While this year the opening of Liste may have left behind someone deluded – we still believe...

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Our report from ArtBasel 2014 starts from a fabulous Gerhard Richter at Fondation Beyeler

  If the big power in the art system is the capability of placing the artwork always in its ideal...

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Was Nan Goldin’s shooting at the Louvre a fundamental step toward a new approach to old masters?

The sad sight on a sad reality that has made Nan Golding’s photography so familiar to all the bohemians of...

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Gustave Doré, Cupid with a pistol on top of a Mountain of skulls, pen and brush with india ink on paper.

Richard and Ulla Dreyfus-Best collection: a survey of the human soul

An exhibition reveals the art collection of Richard and Ulla Dreyfus-Best, masters collectors between contemporary art and art from the...

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