Interviews Art and environment Contemporary art
At the Villa Medici in Rome, through December 19, 2026, the exhibition *Black Sun. Oil and Contemporary Art traces the omnipresence of oil—which, since the Second Industrial Revolution in the mid-19th century, has been intertwined with…
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Opinions Ancient art Antonello da Messina Renaissance Sicily Theft
The Strait of Messina is unique in the world for its beauty and natural richness; it clearly surpasses the Bosphorus in quality of life, the Strait of Istanbul—which connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, is heavily trafficked, and…
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Opinions 61. International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia Contemporary art Venice Biennale
For the first time this year, the works by the artists exhibiting at the Venice Biennale will have from May through November 2026 to take root, spark discussion, radiate their aesthetic power and cultural significance, and be seen by the…
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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)…
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Interviews Contemporary art Venice Biennale
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…
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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…
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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…
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Interviews Contemporary art Reconciliation 5 Vatican
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…
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