Correction, contraction, normalization. Like a "tik tok tak" we scan the three downward magic words of the 2023 art market. Three key terms repeated in a machinelike fashion and reproduced as a mantra whenever there was a need to draw…
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The Tower of Pisa is dyed indigo, supported gently by a feather. Like a caress, as high as the leaning bell tower, intense enough to keep it standing. It rests with its usual tilt in a desert that fades on the horizon to a pink, fuzzy…
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Exhibition reviews Twentieth Century
Among the various routes that connected Europe and the United States in the postwar period, there was one that was particularly dear to the art world: Rome-New York. In the 1950s, as artists, writers and intellectuals returned from exile…
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Can a flower tell the story of an era? Yes, if at that time the flower could be worth as much as a house and in each of its petals were condensed lives, values, ideals, aspirations. The tulip, symbol of the Netherlands, before the outbreak…
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Opinions Heritage History of art criticism
That art criticism is dead, very dead, buried, is self-evident. That no one except the very small and self-referential contemporary art clique gives a damn is even more blatant, total. Not that this is a good thing, indeed it is tragic…
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Exhibition reviews Contemporary art Damien Hirst
The term Escapology refers to the ability of an artist, usually a magician, to free himself or herself from physical constraints. WhenEscapology becomes "Mental," the liberation is the result of the artist's sublimation through a symbolic…
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An incessant noise pervaded the quarantine of the magical art world by saturating the system's social of choice, Instagram, on a daily basis. A constant background buzz, peaking daily at 6 p.m. in a profluence of murmuring red wheels…
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Interviews Ancient art Caravaggio Six hundred
Gallerie d'Italia, Milan presents The Last Caravaggio. Heirs and New Masters. Naples, Genoa and Milan (a review of Finestre Sull'Arte will be published in the coming hours. Three Cities in Comparison) to frame and illustrate the artistic…
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