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Amina Saoudi at the Biennale: story of an underrated artist that legitimizes Koyo Kouoh's exhibition

Amina Saoudi at the Biennale: story of an underrated artist that legitimizes Koyo Kouoh's exhibition

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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When the work becomes art. Interview with Sergio Lombardo

When the work becomes art. Interview with Sergio Lombardo

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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MUCIV: the megamuseum the Ministry bet on. Interview with Andrea Viliani

MUCIV: the megamuseum the Ministry bet on. Interview with Andrea Viliani

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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How does the Church relate to art today? Interview with Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça

How does the Church relate to art today? Interview with Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça

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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At the origin of the Rome Quadrennial: interview with Walter Guadagnini

At the origin of the Rome Quadrennial: interview with Walter Guadagnini

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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Exclusive interview with Nicolas Bourriaud: "Relational art is still alive." Soon an exhibition at MAXXI

Exclusive interview with Nicolas Bourriaud: "Relational art is still alive." Soon an exhibition at MAXXI

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

With Tracey Emin we all love better

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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From Mount Fuji to Mount Etna and Mount Vesuvius: a history of geological art

From Mount Fuji to Mount Etna and Mount Vesuvius: a history of geological art

"We belong to something beautiful," promise the billboards for a multinational cosmetics company. Instead, according to Kant, it is beauty that is inherent in us, and intelligible only through the lens of feelings. The basis of modern thought lies be...
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