They weren’t simply films about art. Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, one of the greatest art historians of the 20th century, believed that cinema could become a tool through which to analyze a painting, a sculpture, a building, or a city…
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Interviews Art Criticism Contemporary art
Living on the threshold, without having to choose which side to take. This is perhaps the image that best captures the way Gabriele Salvaterra views curating, art, and even his own role within the art system. As a curator, critic, and…
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Books Art Criticism Giovanni Testori Roberto Longhi Twentieth Century
“A wave of memories, of symbols, of recollections…” engulfs Giovanni Testori when he is invited by Anna Banti to speak about Roberto Longhi at the Florentine home on Via Fortini, headquarters of the foundation named…
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Interviews Art Criticism Contemporary art
What sense does it make today to talk about art criticism in a world where anyone can express an opinion but real debate is increasingly rare? In the age of the infosphere, social media and supposed cultural democratization, judgment seems…
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A new piece enriches knowledge of 20th-century Italian cultural history. The Fondazione Centro Studi sull'Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti - ETS has published the third volume of the series dedicated to the epistolaries of its…
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Opinions Art Criticism Contemporary art
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…
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