After Mark Rothko’s death, the critic Harold Rosenberg, a theorist of Action Painting, wrote an obituary for the painter in *The New Yorker*, in which he described him as a “reductive theologian of painting.” He intended that adject...
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In 1909, Francis Picabia (Paris, 1879–1953) was thirty years old and had already established a solid reputation within the art world. At that very moment, however, the artist decided to reevaluate the path he had taken up to that point: he sold...
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“Ispirazione Europa: Artistic Dialogues Between the 19th and 20th Centuries” is launching in Vicenza —a new exhibition project sponsored by the City of Vicenza that aims to explore, through art, the formation and evolution of the European spirit fro...
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Eight hundred years after the death of St. Francis of Assisi, Arezzo is celebrating its historical and spiritual bond with the patron saint of Italy through a major exhibition dedicated to the evolution of his image in art. Paintings, sculptures, min...
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The transformations of Italy in the second half of the 20th century, political and social tensions, Milan’s cultural life, and individual stories are transformed into images and words in the work of Carla Cerati, a photographer and writer who made he...
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Hidden on the backs of Lucio Fontana’s famous slashed canvases lies a lesser-known universe, made up of notes, phrases, and personal impressions that reveal an intimate, everyday dimension of his work. This hidden side of the artist’s oeuvre serves a...
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These are silences that permeate the Maremma countryside, the result of a mind that viewed those fields, those pine trees, those rivulets, and those marshes as one might view a gold ground, a painting by Piero della Francesca, or a geometric abstract...
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Christie’s is bringing Antonio Homem Sonnabend’s collection to the market—a vast collection of postwar and contemporary art, photography, multiples, prints, and design—which will be offered in a series of auctions held in London, Paris, a...
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