It has been almost five years since thelast exhibition in Italy dedicated to the Pre-Raphaelites: in 2019 some eighty works from London's Tate Britain , including masterpieces such as John Everett Millais'sOphelia, John William Waterhouse's Lady of S...
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Milan Fashion Week recently ended, which behind the firepower of marketing brings with it some controversy but also interesting debates on how much this seemingly ephemeral world is founded on an ancient need for social affirmation. And so, it is wor...
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Jurgen Teller and Ron Mueck at the Milan Triennale: two exhibitions that I recommend seeing as one, one a continuation of the other. Jurgen Teller (Erlangen, 1964) is a German fashion photographer who reworks fashion photography in a performative and...
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Ancient is the problem of the correct framing of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and his production: the long sequence of exhibitions that have been dedicated to him has looked, often almost exclusively, toward one part of his production, that of advertisi...
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Needless to get around it: they have a problem with exhibitions in Livorno . After last year's lousy Banksy show , a laughable parade of twenty-six multiples by the British street artist that replicated a format already seen and revised far and wide ...
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In an age dominated by social media, new technologies and the emerging artificial intelligence that is already creating deep debates both on its role and on the necessity or otherwise of human presence in given areas, who knows if the new generations...
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An artist who looked to tradition, always true to himself, the author of devout, compassed and measured paintings while painting exploded around him. For these reasons, as well as for the fact that he was neglected, perhaps deliberately, by Giorgio V...
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Destroyed by illness and pain, rebellious in attitude, detached from the world and everyday life, an artist of the finest genius defeated by life. On February 8, 1943, Raphael Gambogi took leave of the world: alone, poor, desperate, ravaged by alcoho...
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To get an idea of the way in which Serafino Macchiati understood his relationship with art, one might turn to a letter that, from Paris, the artist from the Marche region sent to Livorno, addressed to Benvenuto Benvenuti, in the aftermath of an exhib...
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Even an acclaimed contemporary artist like David Hockney can perhaps be included in the ranks of Giovanni Battista Moroni's admirers. But even should one deem it excessive to burden him with the label of enthusiast, it is still safe to say that Hockn...
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Not only a tribute to the art of Alphonse Mucha (IvanĨice, 1860 - Prague, 1939), but also an opportunity to reflect on an era characterized by a renewed interest in art, design and advertising and the remarkable ability that art has to unite people ...
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What role, today, does the audience play in the art world? Hand in hand with the development of hyper-communication and simplification of languages, an increasing number of artists are confronting a redefinition of the roles of exhibition visitors, w...
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The very recent exploit of Costantino D'Orazio as curator of ancient art exhibitions has caused great surprise: the well-known essayist, contemporary art historian, popularizer and television personality who has been on the shields for years, and for...
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When and how the history of contemporary art begins is a question with not a few ambiguities. In academia, according to rather widespread conventions, it is made to coincide with historiographical periodizations that situate the origins of the contem...
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Censorship, opposition, repression. But also courage, reflection and revolution. These are the themes that animate And They Laughed at Me, the photographic exhibition, which opened last Dec. 13 at Mudec in Milan, featuring a retrospective of the work...
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Not much has been heard about the many initiatives organized for the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Galileo Chini's birth, and it is not difficult to understand the reasons why: these are mainly situations linked to the cities most marked by...
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