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Fausto Pirandello, the drama painter who challenged figuration and abstraction: what the exhibition looks like

Fausto Pirandello, the drama painter who challenged figuration and abstraction: what the exhibition looks like

Sicily, distant motherland but indelible matrix of many paintings. And Rome, city of birth and election, vital meeting point for art and family existence. But also launching pad to the international horizon, Parisian and American, before and after Wo...
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The copyright paradox: modern art is more captive than the Middle Ages

The copyright paradox: modern art is more captive than the Middle Ages

We live in an age when everything is photographed. Breakfast, sunsets, concerts, dogs, cats, plates of pasta. And it is absolutely normal thatart , too, enters this continuous flow of images. Yet, incredibly, right here we encounter the highest wall:...
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What the 2026 edition of Modenantiquaria looks like: report with prices

What the 2026 edition of Modenantiquaria looks like: report with prices

Last days to see the 2026 edition of Modenantiquaria, the thirty-ninth of the event dedicated to high antiques that over time has assumed a stable role in the national and international fair calendar. Inaugurated last Friday, Feb. 6, with a convivial...
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Portraits of the insane: when Géricault gave a face to madness

Portraits of the insane: when Géricault gave a face to madness

At a time when madness was still seen as an obscure and stigmatized phenomenon, Théodore Géricault (Rouen, 1791-Paris, 1824) tackled the subject with rigor and depth. We are talking about the same Géricault who, yes, had led Fren...
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Giovanni Bartolena, color as the cipher of the twentieth century on display in Livorno

Giovanni Bartolena, color as the cipher of the twentieth century on display in Livorno

Until Feb. 14, 2026, the Sede di Rappresentanza Castagneto Banca 1910 in Livorno, Via Rossini 2, is hosting the exhibition Nel Novecento di Giovanni Bartolena, tra innovazione e riflessione sul magistero fattoriano, sponsored by Fondazione Castagneto...
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An out-of-place Rotella? The House of Memory in Catanzaro

An out-of-place Rotella? The House of Memory in Catanzaro

We are in Calabria, a land of millennia-old history and traditions, and in the footsteps of Mimmo Rotella, an artist of international prominence born in Catanzaro in 1918. His creative "genius," recognized among the most extraordinary minds on the co...
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Musée d'Orsay acquires an important self-portrait by Gustave Caillebotte

Musée d'Orsay acquires an important self-portrait by Gustave Caillebotte

An important acquisition for the Musée d'Orsay in Paris: a masterpiece by Gustave Caillebotte (Paris, 1848 - Gennevilliers, 1894), Portrait de l'artiste au chevalet ("Portrait of the Artist at the Easel"), which occupies a central and unique p...
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What remains of Futurism today?

What remains of Futurism today?

It was Feb. 20, 1909, when Filippo Tommaso Marinetti leapt onto the front page of Le Figaro, after first publishing in a number of Italian newspapers (starting with the Gazzetta dell'Emilia on Feb. 5) a text that still vibrates like a battering ram, ...
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