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Jana Euler at Kunsthalle Zurich: whole counts more than single parts

The first problem one has to face when reading Jana Euler’s solo exhibition currently at Kunsthalle Zurich regards the strong links the...

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In Reims Imi Knoebel and Marc Chagall set a unique comparison between figuration and abstraction

  In 2008 German artist Imi Knoebel designed the six stained glass windows of the two north and south chapel...

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This day in 1890 Vincent Van Gogh shot himself in the wheat fields behind the château in Auvers

  We would like to commemorate the extraordinary, sensitive and delicate human being that Vincent Van Gogh was with a...

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Vittorio Brodmann, the contemporary existentialist looks relaxed

  Even if during the last two centuries many artists have tried various ways to alter its simple alchemy, painting...

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In remembrance of Roger Ackling (1947-2014)

  The eminent Italian Renaissance architect and theorist, Leon Battista Alberti, stated that the artist should attend to beauty and...

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Odessa Straub, from Renaissance drapery to cartoon bubbles the path is short

  We have spotted Odessa Straub’s paintings in the summer group show curated by artist Torey Thornton at the Suzanne...

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Summer tips: the essence of the Vézelay Abbey lies in the Codex Calixtinus

  It happens that the point of view of art history often fails to take into account that some works...

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Is Judith Linhares’ “Polly” the “Polly Madison” in Vonnegut’s novel?

  As soon as we saw the image of the Polly painted by Judith Linhares currently on show at Lisa...

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From Giovanni da Rimini to Piet Mondrian: “universal beauty arises from the dynamic rhythm of its inherent relationships”

  Tomorrow an extremely rare masterpiece “from the dawn of the fourteenth century” will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s,...

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A godforsaken world-class archeological site lives in Pantelleria

  The small volcanic Sicilian island called Pantelleria is not only the exotic “buen ritiro” of big names such as...

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According to Dosso Dossi Jupiter’s painting lies between Odilon Redon and Damien Hirst

  Among the paintings by Niccolò Luteri, alias Dosso Dossi, that will be exhibited at the Castello del Buon Consiglio...

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Peres Projects puts African helmet masks on ten contemporary artists

  The African helmet masks currently in dialogue at Peres Projects, in Berlin, with a group of ten contemporary artists...

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Art pleasures out of the tourist hotspots: the Royal Chapel of Saint Joseph in Turin

  The Church of Saint Teresa of the Discalced Carmelites is a hidden treasure in the city of Turin. Built...

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New color, new studies, some lessons from Pontormo’s mastery

  How many thoughts behind a painting, how many sketches on paper, how many changes of ideas and intentions under...

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The time box, featuring the Fiammenghini + anonymus lombard artist from the XIV century

  On the right wall of the right transept in the Chiesa di San Marco in Milan, a precious cycle...

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What is the danger of globalization? There is no perspective

  Which artworks Paul Virilio did have in mind when giving the below answer to Sylvére Lotringer (The accident of...

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Weekend tips: Giovanni di Balduccio’s virtues at Sant’Eustorgio, Milan

  The Cappela Portinari, the core of the “Basilica di Sant’Eustorgio” in Milan, hosts a few interesting pieces of art....

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George Henry Longly at Liste 2014: elements for a light mythology

  The most perceptive text among the many on-line pages dedicated to George Henry Longly is, from our point of...

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Matera. Church of St. John the Baptist, the thirteenth century.

A visit in Matera to realize that time could be an extraordinary conceptual artist

  The Italian city of Matera is famous thanks to the “Sassi” (stones), rocks where human settlements have developed without...

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Liste 2014: do you know that our spiritual side is taking materialism means?

  As we wrote a couple of days ago, and other reviewers have pointed out too, at Liste art fair...

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