Entering a museum and being confronted with a nude no longer scandalizes anyone. On the contrary: the nude body, celebrated for centuries, is at the very heart of art history. Yet, just move a detail, make the image more explicit, more direct, closer...
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We implore readers to do an exercise this weekend: take your favorite mode of transportation, take a trip to the countryside, look for a chicken coop, and look at it. For those who don't know where to find a chicken coop, there is the alternative: go...
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To enter a major European museum is often to experience a contradiction. On the one hand, wonder: Greek statues that do not seem to have lost an iota of their power, intact Egyptian sarcophagi, gleaming African bronzes. On the other the doubt that cr...
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A few years ago, we were in the midst of Covid, Angela Merkel said during a speech to the Bundestag that as a young woman she had chosen to study physics at university because scientific evidence cannot be abolished. A seemingly unassailable assertio...
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To walk through any major city today is to move through an open-air museum, but not always of paintings or sculptures. The windows of fast fashion brands display images, shapes, and colors that seem stolen from anart history catalog: Van Gogh prints ...
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For decades in Carrara, there has been an ongoing attempt to find an exhibition venue that can permanently house one of Italy's most important plaster cast collections: the plaster cast collection of the Academy of Fine Arts. Retracing, albeit briefl...
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There was a time when the museum was considered a temple of knowledge, a place where society confronted its own history, where art was kept not only to be contemplated, but also to be studied, understood, passed on. Today, in many cases, those temple...
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There are figures who, more than others, traverse art history as ambivalent presences, somewhere between the generosity ofthe patron and the rigor of the banker. Figures who do not create, do not paint, do not sculpt, but without whom much art woul...
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Two pieces of data emerge, and extremely prominently, from the ranking of the best exhibitions held in Italy in 2025. Before going into them, however, a few details to provide the reader with a little context. Finestre sull'Arte wanted to repeat last...
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It was two months ago that the "Tor de' Conti," a noble building erected in the Middle Ages in the Imperial Forum area, collapsed. And it is unbelievable, but unfortunately true, that in 2025 one of Rome's most significant historical buildings could ...
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There was a time whenart knew how to set the squares on fire. When Manet exhibited his Olympia in 1865, the Parisian bourgeoisie screamed outrage: it was not the nude itself, but the direct gaze of the model, who did not allow herself to be consumed ...
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In fact, it had been too long since anyone last hatched an editorial about how despicable the exhibitions we see in Italy each year are. We were getting worried. Why has no one complained yet this fall about the vile garbage heap that is the Italic e...
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In the business world,innovation is what shifts the balance. It is the force that designs the future, that breaks paradigms, that forces the system to reinvent itself. But in the contemporary art world, where everything seems unstable and in flux, wh...
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A few days ago, in the Financial Times, Bendor Grosvenor produced himself in that frivolous exercise in style for facetious people that is imagining the future of a profession, moreover in the light of the achievements, real or presumed, of artificia...
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Near Geneva, along quiet arteries that escape the tourist routes, is a complex that resembles neither a museum nor a gallery: the Geneva Freeport. The facade is austere, almost anonymous. Armored doors, fences, surveillance systems. The entrance seem...
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We receive and publish this review, written by a reader who preferred not to sign himself, on the film Caravaggio in Rome. The Journey of the Jubilee, in Italian theaters from December 1 to 3, 2025.
It is a special event that lands in cinemas from D...
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