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Candida Höfer: a museum is the ghost, the dream and the memory of a lost ready made

Nowadays many exhibitions approach the ancient and the contemporary in a superficial way. They do not create an effective relationship between the past and the present. Contemporary works, for example, are...

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Ercole Procaccini and The Chapel of the Crucifix in San Marco Church, Milan

The Chapel of the crucifix, also known as Chapel of the compassion, was added to San Marco Church in Milan...

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Tiepolo versus Hockney, painting in motion

We know of two paintings by Giambattista Tiepolo. Works that seem to have no connection with each other. Instead, we...

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Andrea Palladio deserves more than a name dropping show

After an accurate project of restoration started in 2007, the famous Basilica by Andrea Palladio in Vicenza has been recently...

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The last Grande Cantoria is back

Venice. Fifteen years have passed since the Grande Cantoria of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco was rediscovered at the...

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When attitudes become forms reloaded in Venice by Fondazione Prada

  Thanks to the Prada Foundation, the seminal show curated by Harald Szeemann in 1969 (Live in your head: when...

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Rudolf Stingel and the lost old masters at Palazzo Grassi

by gerolamo scacchi

  Inspired to the couch on which patients of Sigmud Freud faced their dreams, the installation by Rudolf Stingel now...

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