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Michael Rey at ZERO… gallery: “The uncanny is not something you can produce at will”

We had never visited his studio, met him in person, or read any article about him before. When a few...

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A curator is born: a look at Kenya’s first curator’s workshop

by Zihan Kassam

Until recently, the number of curators in Kenya could be counted on one hand. Two, if you were kind. The...

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C.Ar.D plus Vigoleno: healthy remedy for the lifeless tourism and white cubes

by Stefano Pirovano

Tourists visiting Italy are generally well aware of Tuscany, Umbria, or Marche. They are familiar with their beautiful hilly landscape,...

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To be discovered: Catherine Biocca and her flirtation with violence

by Stefano Pirovano

Most of the many experienced observers who visited the last edition of Liste art fair in Basel may have noticed...

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World’s growing “uncertainty” staged soon at the SP Biennial with some visual and sexual doubts

by Maria do Carmo de Pontes

A spectre is haunting the world – the spectre of uncertainty. 2016 may enter history not just because of the...

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Restorers rejuvenate Filippo Lippi’s pivotal Martelli Annunciation

by Stefano Pirovano

Florence. The solemn annunciation executed by Filippo Lippi around 1440 for the Martelli Chapel in the Church of Saint Lawrence was...

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#SITElines2016: a multi branch curatorial tree is ready to bloom in New Mexico

by Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes

Established at first as a biennial exhibition programme and shortly afterwards as an all year-round institution dedicated to fostering contemporary...

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Will Sudan, the world’s last male northern white rhinoceros, survive through art?

by Stefano Pirovano and Gianluigi Ricuperati

As time goes by, people are getting more and more aware of how aggressive poachers in Africa have become and,...

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Exo is Korean K-pop: the ex post manifesto of the most talented art project in Paris

by Elisa Rigoulet

EXO, Exo Exo, XOXO. In over two years EXO’s name shifted. People made it their own.   August 2013 : “-...

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To be discovered: Jack Lavender and Isaac Lythgoe unpublished textual dose

The pseudoscorpion, – Lasiochernes Pilosus, is a secretive scorpion like insect that makes home in the nests of moles. Before...

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Emerging artist Tschabalala Self and the collective fantasies surrounding the black body

by Henry Andersen

In the art works of Tschabalala Self (b. 1990), identity is not a given. Her subjects are always formed precisely...

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What makes one’s liking come? Clara Thomine asks in her first solo show

by Piero Bisello

Do you like me or not? Whether you do or not depends, in countless instances, whether I meet you halfway,...

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Art in novels: “The Illogic of Kassel”, aka the Avant-Garde’s decline, by Enrique Vila-Matas

by Antonio Carnevale

The critic is alive. The critic is dead. Around the status of the art critic there is an endless debate,...

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Focus on Brazil: new Rocinha’s literary café is waiting for your art books

Rocinha is known as the main favela of Rio de Janeiro, and apparently also the most populated of the entire...

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Simon Denny shows us how to still believe in the Venice Biennale despite its controversies

by Pero Bisello

After exactly a month from its opening, the feeling is that this year Venice Biennale has been in the news...

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Siri Hustvedt’ “The Blazing world”: a generous art novel dedicated to masks and undervalued artists

by Stefano Pirovano

To be added to the list of 25 art novels that we published a few months ago in response to...

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Form and content can still be relevant words in painting: Theodora Allen’s Plot, No.4

  In his 1936 political essay titled “The Author as Producer”, Walter Benjamin dismisses the debate between form and content...

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Darja Bajagic: from ROOM EAST to Croy Nielsen with the blessings of John Waters

Darja Bajagic, born in 1990 in Titograd (ex Yugoslavia), graduated at the Yale School of Art in 2014 and now...

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Cultural decentralisation: collector Rosetta Barabino celebrated at Villa Croce (with a writing by Gian Enzo Sperone)

  Everybody agrees that the same glass of Vermentino wine has a different taste when sipped in Genoa, instead of London,...

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Cultural decentralisation: engaging with the Towner’s non-elitist approach

Rather than travelling on a swifter inland route along the Sussex coast from Brighton to Eastbourne, we took the coastal...

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