Giacomo Puccini 's most famous arias immediately immerse us in the atmosphere of the Belle Époque, the same atmosphere breathed by Giovanni Boldini, the painter of the elegant and seductive women who lived in the fascinating and vital period b...
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That a home cannot exist without the verdant complicity of a tree, of a plant, of any plant species is a fact known from the beginning, evidence across cultures, across latitudes, across the entire history of humanity. It is worth, meanwhile, the ide...
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The exhibition Danse Macabre by Hans Op de Beeck at Tenuta dello Scompiglio (Lucca)opened last April 11 and will run until October 25. Here, a double review by two artists, Gabriele Landi and Gianluca Sgherri.
Hans Op de Beeck, Danse Macabre (2026...
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"Oh no, I've got the wrong exhibition!": let us be allowed a joking incipit before delving into the rooms of the Mark Rothko exhibition currently underway in Florence. The joke, admittedly a bit exaggerated, springs from the feeling one gets from cas...
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The upside-down man: Baselitz's icon that the German artist turned into a kind of brand. So too in this latest exhibition Heroes of Gold that opened at the Island of San Giorgio curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, the new president of the Cini Foundatio...
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History, including art history, is not made with "what ifs." The uchrony leads us, however, to imagine what idea we would have today of the fabulous Italian Sixties - a decade encompassed and compressed at the antipodes between the arrival of Pop Art...
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Roughly the same reasoning that Giuliano Briganti made for Rubens applies to Van Dyck: given the vastness of his catalog, an exhibition entitled simply "Van Dyck" is unfeasible. It matters little whether one attaches to it, as was done for the exhibi...
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Entering MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and standing in front of a Nakagin Capsule Tower capsule produces an ambiguous feeling. It is not awe in the traditional sense, it is something more unstable: the perception of standing before...
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Through Sept. 13, 2026, the Museo Novecento in Florence is hosting the exhibition Baselitz. Avanti!, curated by Sergio Risaliti and deicated to Georg Baselitz, German painter among the leading contemporary artists. The exhibition brings together abou...
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We will spare the reader the individual details, the pedantic inventory of this film by Isaac Julien that has been screened en boucle for months inside the Fruttiere of Palazzo Te in Mantua: every description passed off as a self-respecting review ha...
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Jenny Saville (Cambridge, 1970) is one of the few contemporary painters whom even the general public recognizes instinctively and without the need for captions. From the outset, her painting, unabashedly devoted to enormous bodies, treated as masses ...
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There is something almost obsessive about the way the Italian cultural system continues to summon Antonio Ligabue. The exhibition The Roar of the Soul, set up at the Arsenali Repubblicani in Pisa, is just the latest act in a liturgy that has been rep...
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At a time when the aftermath of grievances over the absence of Italian artists at the International Exhibition of the upcoming Art Biennale is still swirling (completely unfounded, moreover, except in terms of "discourtesy" to the host country of the...
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It sparkles with harmless composure the ceremonial of exhausted furniture that Benni Bosetto has conveyed in the three large rooms of his exhibition Rebecca, destined to occupy the Shed of the Pirelli HangarBicocca until midsummer and applauded uncon...
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It rarely happens that, chatting among art historians, critics, and specialized journalists, a unanimous consensus emerges on an exhibition project. But about the exhibition Tarot. The Origins, the Cards, the Fortune a currently underway at the Carra...
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Why yes. Federico Giannini
If the museum is a ruthless apparatus for organizing the visible, a distorted device for classifying images, all the less reasonable and all the more perverse must inevitably appear any miniaturization of it, any reduction...
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