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Eva & Franco Mattes Win the 77th Michetti Prize with a Work on Artificial Intelligence

Eva & Franco Mattes Win the 77th Michetti Prize with a Work on Artificial Intelligence

The 77th Michetti Prize was unanimously awarded to Eva & Franco Mattes for their work *Are You Still There? * (2025), an AI-generated video that explores, through an ironic and critical approach, the transformations of identity, surveillance, and...
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The Pinacoteca Agnelli is dedicating its major fall 2026 exhibition to Alberto Savinio

The Pinacoteca Agnelli is dedicating its major fall 2026 exhibition to Alberto Savinio

The Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin kicks off its fall 2026 season with three new projects spanning the 20th century and contemporary art. As part of Turin Art Week, on Friday, October 30, 2026, the museum will present the retrospective *Alberto Savinio....
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Nicola Samorì returns to Ravenna with “Supremalia,” a dialogue with Canova and art history

Nicola Samorì returns to Ravenna with “Supremalia,” a dialogue with Canova and art history

From October 17, 2026, to January 17, 2027, the MAR – Art Museum of the City of Ravenna will host “Nicola Samorì. Supremalia,” a solo exhibition dedicated to the artist from Romagna and curated by Denis Isaia. The project, organized by t...
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Why Painting Can Still Change the Way We See Things. An Interview with Lena Keller

Why Painting Can Still Change the Way We See Things. An Interview with Lena Keller

Lena Keller (Heidelberg, 1980) belongs to a generation of artists who came of age during the transition from analog to digital, but her painting defies any technological simplification. In her work, landscape is not presented as an objective reality ...
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Quantum physics meets art: “The Quantum Effect” comes to the OGR in Turin

Quantum physics meets art: “The Quantum Effect” comes to the OGR in Turin

From October 31, 2026, to February 28, 2027, OGR Torino, a hub of the Fondazione CRT, will host *The Quantum Effect*, an exhibition dedicated to the role of quantum theory in contemporary visual culture—from cinema to pop culture to the artistic prac...
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Venice: At the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Leiko Ikemura's glass sculptures engage in a dialogue with Venetian painting

Venice: At the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Leiko Ikemura's glass sculptures engage in a dialogue with Venetian painting

From September 10 to November 22, 2026, the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice will host “Leiko Ikemura. TransLucent – The Shape of Light,” an exhibition organized to coincide with the tenth edition of The Venice Glass Week. Curated by Isabella Collav...
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Why Contemporary Art Is Producing Increasingly Mediocre Works

Why Contemporary Art Is Producing Increasingly Mediocre Works

The contemporary art market of the last twenty years is based on a huge lie. This is demonstrated by an obvious fact: many of the leading so-called contemporary art galleries must sell modern art—roughly from the time of Van Gogh through the 1970s—in...
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Milan: Over 30 works by Bertozzi & Casoni on display at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, in dialogue with the house-museum

Milan: Over 30 works by Bertozzi & Casoni on display at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, in dialogue with the house-museum

From September 18 to October 25, 2026, the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum in Milan presents *Bertozzi & Casoni: Eternal and Fragile Presences*, an exhibition curated by Alberto Mattia Martini and organized in collaboration with the Giovanni Bonelli Gal...
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