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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Not all artists move in the global vortex of theart market. In many parts of the world, art is born and developed in territories where the commercial system is almost nonexistent or barely noticeable. Here, art grows in a completely different terrain...
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Over the past four decades, numerous international artists have addressed the themes of peace and war in their works, often reflecting on the complexity of contemporary conflicts and their consequences. Examples include Ai Weiwei, with the installati...
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On the night of Sotheby's auctions, the most striking result is not the Klimt painting sold for $236 million but Maurizio Cattelan's postmodern toilet at only $12 million with an auction base of $10 million. This means that the gold toilet only total...
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No one believes it, but contemporary art could be a way to train new eyes. The problem is that in exhibitions, fairs and biennials we always see the same works, homogenized, interchangeable winking, strange little things, surreal painting, unusual ob...
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There is a phenomenon now familiar to those who regularly attend biennials, fairs, contemporary art museums. In front of a large installation, lights, sounds, eye-catching materials, perhaps a statement of intent half a wall long, one stops, observes...
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As of October 19, 2025, French radio stations are broadcasting Un mauvais rêve de SandroBotticelli (A Bad Dream of Botticelli https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/allons-y-voir/un-mauvais-reve-de-sandro-botticelli-6063000). The fir...
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Andy Warhol, the artist who exalted in works and thought the art of making money and immortalized the dollar icon, years ago had entered the collection of the former secretary of the Rifondazione Comunista party, Fausto Bertinotti, who had received t...
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An interesting phenomenology to study for those who want to approach contemporary art without getting distracted by too many hyperbolic concepts is the verbose use of neon signs. Scores of artists belonging to the club of "system smarts," realizing t...
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For decades they have been among the most prominent names inglobal contemporary art. Market icons, stars of record auctions, celebrated at museums and biennials, pursued by collectors and curators. Each with a recognizable universe: Jeff Koons and th...
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This is not the first time on these pages that we have dealt with the FAI days. Certainly a commendable initiative, since the Fondo Ambiente Italiano offers the possibility to visit, throughout Italy, sites that would otherwise be closed, or little o...
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What can art do in the face of war? At first glance I would feel like rephrasing the question into what, in the face of the current scenario, we, all of us, could or should do. Evidently little, even where a civilian consciousness makes its presence ...
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What reasons still prevent Verona from having its great museum, its Great Castelvecchio, a complex that is finally united in all its parts, and that may yet prove to be, as it was more than fifty years ago, a model capable of innovating, of opening u...
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What is art? Blessed Tolstoy who had the ready and certain answer: that which comes from the people. I, on the other hand, while working for two or three decades as an art critic, find myself like Augustine about time. If no one asks him, he knows, w...
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