Global. The juxtaposition of the adjective with the Baroque artistic season in Rome in the title of the exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale, through July 13, communicates with the force of synthesis the sense of the scholarly project curated by ...
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Two exhibitions pay tribute to Mario Giacomelli on the centenary of his birth. In Milan, Mario Giacomelli. The Photographer and the Poet is staged at Palazzo Reale, promoted by the City of Milan - Culture and produced by Palazzo Reale and Archivio Ma...
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It is sculpture, despite the fact that it is a video that conveys it, the language that characterizes Adrian Paci's new, extensive project. No man is an island, the exhibition that marks the second installment of the series conceived by Cristiana Per...
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In 1958 the famous American magazine Life devoted an extensive feature to sculptor Louise Nevelson (Kiev, 1899 - New York, 1988) on the occasion of Moon Garden Plus One, or that exhibition held at the Grand Central Moderns Gallery that would represen...
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That principle that Roberto Longhi brings to bear to distinguish Caravaggio from the great men of the fifteenth-fifteenth century, whom he least liked because they often represented the power of the Italian centers over the mistreated periphery, and ...
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The figure of Daniel Buren (Boulogne-Billancourt, 1938) emerges on the contemporary scene with an authority that transcends mere historical recognition to embody an artistic practice that continues to renew its language after more than fifty years of...
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Puffy, full, fake, soft, touchable clouds. Folds that look like wet metal. Ivory faces, slightly flushed, delicate, expressive. He is the easily recognizable artist Malosso, and it is probably also to this recognizability that we owe the success that...
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Philip Roth's celebrated literary masterpiece, American Pastoral, tells the story of Seymour Levov and his family, second-generation Americans who, with great difficulty, manage to build a respectable position for themselves in U.S. society, embodyin...
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"Poor, black, working class, and a woman to boot": this is how Carrie Mae Weems defined herself in her master's thesis at the University of California, San Diego, made between 1978 and 1984 and which later became the series Family Pictures and Storie...
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The museum, the home of the muses as an open space for sharing with the public, and not a mausoleum where they sing, celebrate and mummify their work. This is how Bianca Pucciarelli in Menna, aka Tomaso Binga, showed up at 94 years old, wheelchair-bo...
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Anyone wandering through the rooms of the major exhibition that the Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento dedicates to Giacomo Francesco Cipper cannot help but notice a certain insistence on objects and a certain insistence on smiles. It is perhaps th...
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If it is true that in the birth of many artists lurk the "causes" of their becoming such (Roberto Longhi said that one is born a critic, but one becomes an artist), it could be said that for Leonor Fini the familyimprinting was the reason for her ent...
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In a Florence that in recent years has been trying to reshape its identity by counterbalancing the extremely rich historical legacy of which it is the custodian with massive forays into the contemporary (just think of the recent installation in front...
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The Civic Museums of Imola are dedicating a major exhibition to Germano Sartelli (Imola, 1925 - 2014) for the 100th anniversary of his birth: Germano Sartelli. The Enchantment of Matter, curated by Claudio Spadoni. A beautiful exhibition. Can one say...
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The cigarette elegantly in his right hand and his body slouching against the back of the armchair, on his face a mixed expression of disenchantment and melancholy. Thus, in 1942, Piero Martina portrayed Carlo Levi. Or was it the antifascist painter a...
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Cannibal. At times he had apostrophized himself thus, Pablo Picasso, with lucid consciousness of his own carnal experimentation in continuous search for ever new forms, for unprecedented materials, with an unmistakable stylistic signature that made h...
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