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Torbjorn Rodland, ACV09, 2009, silver gelatin print on baryta paper, 27.7 cm x 22.3 cm x 3 cm (10-7/8" x 8-3/4" x 1-3/16"). Courtesy the artist.

Mapping the comics trend at Pace London

    The upcoming exhibition “Everything falls faster than an anvil” at Pace London is not the last art cocktail mixing...

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ANDY WARHOL, Last Supper, 1986, Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen on canvas 102.1 x 102.1 cm (40.2 x 40.2 in); stamped signature and certified on verso by Frederick Hughes; estimate €6.711.409 - €8.948.545; online bidding on Paddle8 ends May 13 at 4:00 pm EST.

The art market’s last supper is going online according to Hiscox’s report

A few days ago the CEO of Christies’s, Steven Murphy, declared to the Wall Street Journal the auction house’s commitment...

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At the Gallery Weekend Berlin fifty shows are opening the same night: a time saving list is required!

  The 10th edition of the Gallery Weekend Berlin is starting next Friday, and those who need a break from art fairs’...

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Daniel S. Loeb’s attack to “the Sotheby’s three” is a violent open letter, published on the web

    The last assault in the war for the control of Sotheby’s auction house is a letter dated 21...

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In praise of Agnolo Gaddi’s most chic frescoes strip

  When you enter the Cathedral of Prato, the first span of the left nave is dedicated to the relic...

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Mr. Falckenberg please choose: does every era get the art it deserves or is every work of art the child of its age?

    Some days ago we have discussed about the essay published one Mousse magazine by Jens Hoffmann. It follows...

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The Pecci reloaded: iconic Nio’s hardware almost ready, but the software is still to be written

  Prato’s major, Roberto Cenni, promises that the new addition to the “Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci” will open...

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More critics, less curators: should we read Jens Hoffmann’s cosmic pessimism in his “Art after the end of art” as a self-accuse?

  “Art after the end of art” is a short essay published by art writer and curator Jens Hoffmann on...

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Born again after seventeen years of hibernation: Prato opens its brand new Museo di Palazzo Pretorio

During the Renaissance Prato, not far from Florence, was a rich town. Not as rich as the lavish Florence, but...

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Ugo Mulas, “Jasper Johns”, New York, 1967. Fotografie Ugo Mulas © Eredi Ugo Mulas. All right reserved. Courtesy Archivio Ugo Mulas, Milano - Galleria Lia Rumma, Milano/Napoli

Art in the mirror with Giorgio Vasari, Ugo Mulas and Jasper Jones

  In the preface of his “Lives”, Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, 1511 – Firenze 1574) says that art began when someone...

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At Milan design week Marina Abramovich’s disturbing performance, with the kind help of Daniel Libeskind

  We strongly believe that design and art are very different from each other, and they shouldn’t be mixed, even...

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“A Pink Nude Seated ”, Henri Matisse (1935, Paris, Centre Pompidou)

Henri Matisse: form, sex and information

by Stefano Pirovano

Former Pompidou's deputy director Isabelle Monod Fontaine proves how the figure has been at the core of Henry Matisse entire...

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Carel Fabritius, The goldfinch, 1654. Oil on panel, 33.5 x 22.8 cm. Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis,

A special Goldfinch to renovate the house of the Girl with the Pearl Earring

  In a couple of months the ambitious renovation project by Hans van Heeswijk Architects of the Royal Picture Gallery...

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If you don’t want Paolo Veronese to be a pop artist don’t visit Richard Hamilton at the Tate Modern

  Just a few hours after visiting Paolo Veronese’s “retrospective” exhibition at the National Gallery we went to the Tate...

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An art tourist in Peckham

  Yesterday Conceptual Fine Arts spent the afternoon visiting galleries in Peckham, London, with our friend architecture critic and lecturer...

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MiArt 2014: the usual, please!

  At the opening of MiArt 2014 the trend running in the last months has been once again confirmed. Probably...

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Dreamland is where the distance between epochs fades away

  When we saw this marble group of Orpheus and the animals last week at TEFAF 2014 sold for a...

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David Ostrowski, F (dann lieber nein), 2012. Painting oil, lacquer and adhesive foil on canvas, cm 40,5 x 50,5.

In Paris a user guide to introduce the last David Ostrowski’s monologue

  As many collectors may have noticed the last solo exhibition of David Ostrowski opened ten days ago at Almine...

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Interrelated masters: Rosso, Brancusi and Man Ray at the Boijmans

  Its set-up could have been less static, and the systematic association between photography and sculptures ends up to be...

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If you haven’t understood yet what Conceptual Fine Arts is about, visit the The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rottherdan and buy its “Collection book”

  The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen first opened its doors in 1849 and currently comprises an estimated total of some 140.000 objects,...

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