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Fontanesi Returns to Japan: Turin’s GAM Brings Over 200 Works to Three Major Museums

Fontanesi Returns to Japan: Turin’s GAM Brings Over 200 Works to Three Major Museums

Antonio Fontanesi, one of the great figuresof 19th-century Italian and European art, returns to Japan 150 years after moving to Tokyo, where he went to teach at the local Technical School of Fine Arts. The Fondazione Torino Musei is dedicating an exh...
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Three sculptures by Robert Rauschenberg donated to the Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland

Three sculptures by Robert Rauschenberg donated to the Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland

Three major sculptures by Robert Rauschenberg (Port Arthur, 1925 – Captiva Island, 2008) are joining the ARTIST ROOMS collection, a collection of modern and contemporary art established in 2008 and managed by the Tate in London and the National...
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The Fattori Museum in Livorno Gets a Makeover: Why the New Exhibition Design Marks a Turning Point

The Fattori Museum in Livorno Gets a Makeover: Why the New Exhibition Design Marks a Turning Point

The old layout of the Fattori Museum in Livorno is gone, finished, no longer exists, and we will never see it again: dismantled before last year’s exhibition on Giovanni Fattori, it has now been completely renovated, transformed, and replaced. ...
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Adele Bloch-Bauer, Gustav Klimt's "Woman in Gold"

Adele Bloch-Bauer, Gustav Klimt's "Woman in Gold"

A profusion of gold floods Gustav Klimt’s *Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I* , sweeping through the entire composition like a river of precious metal and immersing the viewer in a dazzling vision. Gold is the undisputed protagonist of the entire...
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Rodin According to Rilke: An Exhibition in Switzerland Explores the Dialogue Between Sculpture and Poetry

Rodin According to Rilke: An Exhibition in Switzerland Explores the Dialogue Between Sculpture and Poetry

The sculpture of Auguste Rodin (Paris, 1840 – Meudon, 1917) takes center stage once again at the Pierre Gianadda Foundation in Martigny, Switzerland, with a new exhibition project dedicated to the relationship between art and poetry. From June ...
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Hamilton's record-breaking "Laocoön": It is the most expensive neoclassical sculpture ever sold at auction

Hamilton's record-breaking "Laocoön": It is the most expensive neoclassical sculpture ever sold at auction

A new world record for neoclassical sculpture was set in London. Last night at Sotheby’s, the monumental *Laocoon Hamilton*, a life-size bronze by Auguste-Jean-Marie Carbonneaux (Paris, 1790–1843), was sold for 13.6 million pounds, equivalent ...
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Morbelli Through His Drawings: The Tortona Collection Reopens Research on the Divisionist Painter

Morbelli Through His Drawings: The Tortona Collection Reopens Research on the Divisionist Painter

An artist’s archive does not merely preserve letters, notes, newspaper clippings, receipts, envelopes, and scattered documents. When systematically examined, it can breathe new life into an entire historical figure, freeing it from the somewhat...
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Ottone Rosai and the Wounded Social Fabric of the Tavern

Ottone Rosai and the Wounded Social Fabric of the Tavern

If there is one place where, at the dawn of the 20th century, popular social life revealed all its ambiguity, it is the tavern. Trattoria, tavern, wine bar, and inn: different names for spaces that we today tend to associate solely with conviviality,...
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