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Form and info: Danh Vo’s “Autoerotic Asphyxiation” re-loaded in Palazzo Grassi, Venice

  Four years after “Autoerotic Asphyxiation” was exhibited at the Artist Space in New York the basic information for its understanding...

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From NYC subway to the Pallant House: Nicholas Sinclair’s artists reassessing Andres Serrano’s homeless

  The perceptive article below has been sent to Conceptual Fine Arts by artist and lecturer Geoff Hands. It moves...

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“Fundamentals” XIV biennale di architettura, Venezia, “Elements of architecture”, Central Pavilion. Rem Koohlaas explains the relationsheep between elements of architecture and symbol

Venice: Rem Koolhaas’ fundamentals of architecture don’t include artworks

  Conceptual fine arts visited the preview of the Venice Architecture Biennal 2014, which starts today until 23 November 2014....

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Ai Weiwei, Forever, 2014. 1179 bicycles, 728,6 x 1603,8 x 397,9 cm.

At Palazzo Franchetti the “genius loci” is named Nicholas L.

  “Genius Loci” at Palazzo Franchetti, in Venice, is a show promoted by Lisson Gallery and Studio Berengo in occasion...

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At the Venice Biennale Architettura 2014 words are the only real “fundamental”

  The key words for the Biennale Architettura 2014 now opening in Venice are: history, modernism, research and participation. Curator Rem Koolhaas...

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Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), “Head study of a man in a ruff”, oil on canvas, (55.3 x 45.1 cm.)

What a perfect story to promote the re-discovered van Dyck’s soon on sale at Christie’s

  It must have been a real shock for Father Jamie MacLeod to find out that the Sir Anthony van...

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NYC: Andres Serrano works with homeless

by Stefano Pirovano

In New York's subway artist Andres Serrano provokes with big photos of homeless people; but it's a poor game.

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A rare Botticelli’s drawing soon on auction introduced by contemporary master Richard Prince

  As many online media are reporting, this rare Botticelli’s drawing is the only one by the artist which is...

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Form and info: artist Laurie Anderson among the signatories of an open letter which condemns the Lukashenko’s Soviet style regime in Belarus

    A few days after the final of the ice hockey championships in Belarus has been played (Russia won...

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The curve and the real: dedicated to our beloved photography’s students at IED, Milan

  Once the digital has come about, the two elements of which a photography is made of – idea and...

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World in the art mirror: a hint of Vonnegut and Chapman bros. to comment the growing euroscepticism

  The vote in Europe has sadly confirmed the opinion about Europeans that the old newspaper editor claims in Kurt...

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Giorgio Morandi, Natura, morta Olio su tela 61,8 x 76,3 cm, 1937. Firenze, Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell’Arte Roberto Longhi.

Rachel Whiteread on Giorgio Morandi: another British artist pays tribute to the painter’s selfishness

  Five years after Tacita Dean, who made two films dedicated to his working desk (Day for night and Still...

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Rule number one: Establish a conceptual framework

  Louisa Buck is an art writer, Judith Greer a collector. If seen from the point of view of contemporary...

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The Met announces free access to 400,000 digital images: the artworks’ metaphysics is expanding…

  This morning Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, sent an email to the...

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Art in novels: Kurt Vonnegut and the most comprehensive definition of the Abstract Expressionism

The most comprehensive definition of the Abstract Expressionism’s highest achievements is given by the painter Rabo Karabekian, main character of...

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Libro d’Ore di Lorenzo de’ Medici, “Annunciation”, Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ms. Ashb. 1874, c. 13v. (© Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ms. Ashb. 1874, c. 13v . Su concessione del MiBACT)

An instructive exhibition dedicated to all those contemporary art collectors who are inflating the bubble

  The upcoming exhibition “The fortunes of the primitives” (at the Galleria dell’Accademia, in Florence, from June 24 to December...

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Art without theory suffers! Even at Frieze New York 2014

  Frieze New York will open in a few hours but, according to the new trend, some of the works...

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A letter to Unit+ architects now in residency at San Settimio to re-enact the possible utopia once called Operazione Arcevia

  Dear Unit+,   it was a pleasure meeting you at the Riserva Privata San Settimio, and experiencing the making...

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Ugo Mulas, “Marcel Duchamp”, New York, 1967. Fotografie Ugo Mulas © Eredi Ugo Mulas. Courtesy Archivio Ugo Mulas, Milano - Galleria Lia Rumma, Milano/Napoli. On show at “Ugo Mulas. La fotografia”, museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia (until 14 july 2014)

A message from master Ugo Mulas to all the art trotters on Instagram

  The photographer Ugo Mulas has been not only a wit observer, but also a reliable interpreter of what happened...

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Jacopo Ligozzi (Verona 1547 - Frenze 1627), "Agave americana from a series of paintings done for Francesco I de 'Medici"

Jacopo Ligozzi, cataloging nature at the court of Francesco I

  From 27 May (until 28 September), the Galleria Palatina in Florence will host the first major exhibition dedicated to...

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