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Is Art Basel planning to invade the online sales’ territories?

by Stefano Pirovano

A few days ago MCH group, the 100-year-old international live marketing company owning Art Basel, officially announced the acquisition of...

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The Tate Britain Commission: Pablo Bronstein and the art of being a viewer

by Geoff Hands

Tate Britain, the oldest of the four Tate Galleries, still resonates as a Temple for Art, with a grand porticoed...

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Who of these two men will finally turn Milan into an international art capital?

by Stefano Pirovano

Concerning culture, Milan is no longer the listless city it used to be during the period that went from the beginning...

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Art Basel 2016: a positive reaction to the impossible Brexit

by Stefano Pirovano

It’s raining in Basel, like last year, and British people, the second art market in the world by value, will...

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Berlin Biennale 2016: last goodbye to the prematurely dead post-internet label

by Piero Bisello

It was two years of scepticism about Berlin Biennale 2016, or at least since the announcement that collective DIS would...

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Rome: does Parmigianino’ Man with a book remind you of any contemporary art dealer?

by Stefano Pirovano

None of the contemporary art people that we met last week in Rome, where we went to attend an engaging...

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Mona Hatoum at the Tate Modern: are female artists saving the future of contemporary art?

by Geoff Hands

Linda Nochlin, the originator of feminist art history, once asked the thorny question (to men, at least): “Why have there...

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Buried on an Ukrainian island the 17 paintings stolen from the Castelvecchio museum in Verona

by Stefano Pirovano

The paintings stolen from Castelvecchio Museum in Verona last 19 November by three armed men while the museum was closing...

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Giorgione at the Royal Academy of Arts in London is so contemporary, contemporary, contemporary…

by Geoff Hands

ROSALIND: Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing? Come, sister, you shall be the priest and...

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Kampala Contemporary: encroaching a new realm

by Zihan Kassam

Circle, Kenya’s first independent art agency since 2012, continues to guide audiences with an interest in East African art. April 13,...

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Visit this show if you think that you hate conceptual art, but take a napkin for the orange

by Geoff Hands

First impressions can be misleading, as we were left feeling indifferent after our first visit to ‘Conceptual Art in Britain...

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Nigerian mega-collector Prince Yemisi Shyllon discloses his intentions

by Zihan Kassam

“It is a glorious obsession,” says Prince Yemisi Shyllon about his life as an art collector. “It goes from interest...

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In between language and drugs: Michael Dean + Jac Leirner

by Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes

Two shows that took place in London put accidentally side by side Michael Dean and Jac Leirner. Here is why...

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Musei Vaticani director attacks Matteo Renzi and the Ministry of Culture’s new set of reforms

by Stefano Pirovano

Protest grows in Italy over Minister of culture Dario Franceschini after he officially announced new measures to follow up with...

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Bosch in Den Bosch: de-attributions made by the BRCP and Prado’s next move

by Stefano Pirovano

“One month after the opening 300.000 tickets have already been sold” proudly announced last Saturday the Het Noordbrabants Museum director...

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Tefaf 2016: USA, UK and China together hold 87% of the art market

by Stefano Pirovano

While the world economy is slowly recovering from the recent turmoil in global markets, and London is getting ready to...

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Why is African art at the Armory Show so friendly and welcoming?

by Stefano Pirovano

It has taken 8 months to curators Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba to select the 13 galleries participating in the...

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The Met bets on modern and contemporary art, is it too late?

Next 18 March the oppressive building designed almost a century ago by Marcel Breuer on Madison Avenue to host the...

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Arco 35 Anniversary: Madrid is back, Lisbon to follow

by Stefano Pirovano

If seen from the art-world Madrid doesn’t seem the capital of a country that two months after the national elections...

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Art neolocalism, part II: a beneficial alternative to the supermaket

by Stefano Pirovano

These days, from Paris, the contemporary art world looks dreadfully calm. As calm as someone who is experiencing a tough...

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