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Napoleon’s dream: a step forward to its revival in Abu Dhabi

While Paris will be soon enriched with the new Fondation Louis Vuitton’s building, another French driven museum is almost ready...

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Travess Smalley, Computer Graphic on Vinyl, Vector Weave, Scan #92, 2013, uv print on stretched vinyl, 60 x 43.5 in.

Are we entering the post-curator era?

Interpreting the art system has always been a hard task: no official and reliable information, a few certainties, many lies....

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Peeking into the new building of the Fondation Louis Vuitton, and into its software

Louis Vuitton Foundation’s new building, Paris     Last Monday Conceptual Fine Arts was in Paris, at the Bois de Boulogne,...

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What does happen when museums forbid their visitors from taking pictures?

The pics in our gallery are deadly blurred because they have been stolen, as thousands of other similar pictures you...

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Look at the Museum of Castelvecchio to understand that is too early to bet on Italy’s renaissance

The Museum of Castelvecchio, in Verona, is just another Italian old glory that is fading away due to the deep...

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The last Fugue played by Thea Djordjadze is at Francesca Kaufmann, Milan

“The title is part of the sculpture, and I really care about it” declared Thea Djordjadze to a journalist in...

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Bernterode, Germany, may 1945: The bronze coffin of Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia was one of four enormous coffins found at the Bernterode repository by Monuments Man Walker Hancock. (Photo credit: Walker Hancock Collection)

Waiting for “The Monuments men”, starring George Clooney, Matt Damon, Daniel Craig and Cate Blanchett. Coming soon…

The “Monuments Men” was a group of approximately 345 men and women from thirteen nations, most of whom volunteered to...

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The Robben Island prison, sketched in 2002 by artist and former prisoner Nelson Mandela

“In these sketches entitled: My Robben Island, I have attempted to colour the island sketches in ways that reflect the...

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Global Activism, a new episode of the political art movement, soon at the ZKM

The aim austrian artist, curator and theoretican Peter Weibel declares he wants to achieve with the upcoming “Global activism” at...

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Behind the scenes at Palazzo Cusani for a better understanding of Allora&Calzadilla’s disillusioned sight on politicians

Yesterday it was the last day of “Fault lines” the highly appreciated retrospective show on Allora & Calzadilla at Palazzo...

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As proved by Brauner’s enucleated eye, our future is written in the artworks

Victor Brauner (1903-1966) was a Romanian surrealist painter. His artistic production is rich in unique hybrid images, hallucinations mixing women,...

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Happy birthday Mr. Bronzino

Angelo Bronzino was born exactly 510 years ago (Agnolo di Cosimo, November 17, 1503 – November 23, 1572, usually known...

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Homesickness: the masterpiece by Andrea della Robbia in the Paul and Gill Ruddock Gallery at the V&A

There is a room, n.50 in the Victoria & Albert museum, dedicated to a spectacular collection of Italian Renaissance sculpture....

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"The Raft" (2004), video, Bill Viola

Bill Viola and the importance of making visible what can not be seen

Bill Viola will go on show (from November 23rd to February 20th) in the Palazzo Te, Mantova. It is not...

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"Silver Car Crash 3 (Double Disaster)", 1963, Andy Warhol

Can we look at the works by Andy Warhol through new means?

Christie’s (on November, 12) will offer one of the most famous Pop Art masterworks by Andy Warhol as the highlight...

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Dakis Joannou’s impulse for design (and objects)

November is the last month to visit the exhibition “The system of objects – The Dakis Joannou collection reloaded by...

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The third episode of the Parisian trilogy of dreams: Philippe Parreno at the Palais de Tokyo

The third episode of the trilogy about dreams currently on show in Paris is the epic Philippe Parreno’s retrospective at...

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Elmgreen&Dragset with “Tomorrow” at the V&A: the exhibition begins when you are back home

The script of an “unrealized film by Elmgreen and Dragset” that your are invited to take at the entrance of...

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Great art is about art, as Roy Lichtenstein demonstrates (at the Centre Pompidou)

If you are planning to visit the great retrospective exhibition about Roy Lichtenstein currently at the Centre Pompidou (until 4 November),...

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From Nan Goldin to old masters, and return

Her friends say that Nan Goldin, the spiritual mother of some of the most influential photographers of the last two...

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