What makes the Venice Biennale model unique in the world? As the world’s first biennial international art exhibition format, founded in 1893 and inaugurated in 1895 (in a recently unified Italy, still ruled by the House of Savoy), between the 1...
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In the shortlist of ten Arab artists competing in the 61st Venice Art Biennale, including such well-known ones as Kader Attia and Walid Raad, only three artists are from an earlier generation, born between the 1940s and 1950s: Palestinian Vera Tamari...
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At the doorway of Sergio Lombardo's Archive in Rome there is still a marble plaque designed now decades ago together with Palma Bucarelli and Cesare Pietroiusti where it is inscribed in red "Jartrakor, experimental space and center for the study of a...
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Arriving at Eur is already, and without the aid of technology, an augmented reality experience in itself. A scenography, rather than a neighborhood, out of scale, monumental, rationalist designed in the 1930s to host and celebrate, as had happened in...
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Something has changed in the Church's relationship with the art world, something that goes far beyond the exceptional papal encounters with artists in the Sistine Chapel or the latest ceremonies of the Academy of the Virtuosi at the Pantheon, ultimat...
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It is the intuition and merit of the late President of the Quadriennale di Roma, Luca Beatrice, to have wanted to add a historical postilla to this otherwise very young 18th edition that has just opened, with the exhibition I giovani e i maestri: la ...
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In Rome, an overture to the new art season slightly impatient but positive with the capital's first exhibition event at the Basement gallery of art magazine Cura founders Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin, who kicked off Sept. 10, 2025, the first edit...
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With Tracey Emin we all love better. Tracey is perhaps the first artist since Frida Kahlo to transform the last taboos such as vulnerability and illness into a new artistic expression by transcending the current academic hierarchy. If feelings and em...
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