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A Side of Testori Never Seen Before: A Book Featuring His Dialogue with Longhi That Reveals a Workshop in Art Criticism

A Side of Testori Never Seen Before: A Book Featuring His Dialogue with Longhi That Reveals a Workshop in Art Criticism

“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 after the criti...
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In the age of algorithms, art criticism must be rethought: long interview with Lorenzo Bruni (The Others)

In the age of algorithms, art criticism must be rethought: long interview with Lorenzo Bruni (The Others)

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 to have ta...
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Ragghianti and Zevi's correspondence published: a forty-year-long dialogue

Ragghianti and Zevi's correspondence published: a forty-year-long dialogue

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 founder, this tim...
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But can there really be a "folk" art?

But can there really be a "folk" 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, he knows, w...
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