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Tommaso di Stefano Lunetti and Christian Schad at a walkable distance? Only at the TEFAF 2014, until 23 March

  One of the most beautiful opportunities an art fair such as the TEFAF 2014 offers to its visitors is...

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Nick Darmstaedter’s solo show at Bugada&Cargnel resolved thanks to a letter written almost 500 years ago

    Answering the third argument, painters say that it is quite true that the purpose of both arts is...

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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French, 1827-1875), "Ugolino and His Sons", 1865-67; detail, Saint-Béat marble; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation Inc. Gift, Charles Ulrick and Josephine Bay Foundation Inc. Gift, and Fletcher Fund

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux at the MET and the Divine Comedy

In the relationship between form and information, it may happen that a poetic source is stronger than a scientific or...

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Day one at TEFAF 2014: get ready for the opening!

  TEFAF 2014 has just begun, and collectors from all over the world are ready to enter the fair. In...

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The Itinerary of catastrophe, a conversation between Sylvère Lotringer and Paul Virilio, 2008.

At the Whitney Biennial three artworks, plus Semiotext(e)

  Yesterday CFA had a very dedicated tour of the Whitney Biennial of American art, its last dance in the...

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Bodies and objects are back at Independent 2014, thanks to Oliver Osborne and Brad Troemel

  If the realm of the art practice is half occupied by artists who are not interested in representing bodies...

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Falls, Kahn, Smalley, Ancart: at the Armory 2014 a few minutes are enough

  Collectors have been faster than ever this year at the Armory Show, especially with these guys. The three amazing...

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New York contemporary art week is about to being: is a wishing list what you need?

  After two months of web surfing and e-books reading, we are coming back to the playground. New York contemporary...

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Simon Fujiwara, the artist who steals the roses of the Centre Pompidou

  Simon Fujiwara is a brilliant storyteller. His beautiful sculpture titled “New Pompidou”, currently on show at the Centre Georges...

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Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino are coming, but be careful please!

We have received this pic a few minutes ago. It has been taken at Palazzo Strozzi during the set-up of...

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Fortunato Depero, Motociclista, solido in velocità (Biker, Solid at Speed), 1923. Oil on canvas, © 2013 Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York/ SIAE, Rome.

Fortunato Depero opens the new Centre for Italian Modern Art in New York

  While the seminal exhibition dedicated to the Italian Futurism is going to inaugurate tomorrow at the Solomon R. Guggenheim...

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John Water, Playdate, 2006. Courtesy of Sprueth Magers, Berlin.

What if Michael Jackson and Charles Manson had met each other before their lives went wrong?

  Who can play the role of the genius better than John Waters in the art world? Probably no one,...

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Thinking Cézanne as an open source (now in Madrid)

  The exhibition “Cézanne Site / Non-Site”, at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (until 16 May) represents a good opportunity to...

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Would you buy a bond from an art critic?

The Contemporary Art day sale at Phillips has just finished a few minutes ago, and the market’s traders are already at work...

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“Ixion”, Cornelisz van Haarlem, Oil on canvas, 192 x 152 cm, 1588, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen

The revenge of the Body Art stems from Tiziano and Ribera (now at the Prado)

  At the Museo Nacional del Prado, until 4 May, you can visit the show “The Furias. From Titian to...

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Cesare Ripa, Iconology’s father and ancestor of the “form and info” (to be discovered online)

Amongst the roots of the relationship between form and information in art, there is to be pinpointed the book “Iconologia”...

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Tiziano Vecellio (1485 - 1576), Danae, 1553, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado

Tiziano and the conceptual program of his “Poems”

On September 10th, 1554, the artist Tiziano Vecellio sent to the king of Spain, Philip II, the painting “Venus and...

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Adel Abdessemed, Bourek, 2005, aircraft fuselage

With Amnesty International at the finissage of “L’Age d’Or”, the controversial Adel Abdessemed’s solo show in Doha

Today closes Adel Abdessemed’s solo show “L’Age d’Or” at Mathaf, the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar, but...

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Peruzzi Baldassarre (Ancaiano 1481 – Roma 1536) Portrait of card. Pietro Accolti, Verso, oil on canvas. Galleria degli Uffizi

At the Uffizi to experience the b-side visibility

  It is a fact that the b-side often helps to understand the a side. It happens to contemporary artworks as well as to the...

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Man Ray, Tristan Tzara, vers 1921, Paris, Centre Pompidou, © Man Ray Trust / Adagp, Paris

Tristan Tzara: dada artist or hero for a revolution?

A part of the western world is at war. It is not a traditional war. It can’t be fought with...

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