Who is Luca Rossi

Curators are now the real artists, and artists are weak. But this needs to be reversed

As has been the case for many years for the "elected" curator on duty, the newly appointed curator of the Venice Biennale 2026 International Art Exhibition, Koyo Kouoh, is presented as if she were a super-director, a super-author, but in reality the ...
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The best and worst of contemporary art 2024 according to Luca Rossi

For several years there has been little point in doing the classic "best of" referring to contemporary art. This is because we have been going through, for at least fifteen to twenty years, a neo-mannerist and transitional phase. Lists, with the best...
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Rome, Divario gallery closes: "cultural and commercial function together? It's unsustainable."

After just five years of existence, the Divario gallery in Rome has closed. It had been founded in 2019 by entrepreneur Filippo Tranquilli and over the years had stood out for a refined proposal, centered particularly on photography, with mostly youn...
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Keil Space's artistic revolution in Florence: the observer at the center as co-creator

To visit Keil Space in Florence, the space conceived by British artist Samantha Keil, is to glimpse the future, to experience and savor what we would like the future to be. The space, founded by Samantha Keil, a master of bronze from a long line of c...
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Bulgari Prize 2024 finalists: art that doesn't really impact

The three finalist works of the Bulgari Prize were presented in Rome at the Maxxi Museum. As has been the case periodically for the past few years, a few curators indicate a few artists and then an international jury defines the short list of finalis...
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Why nowadays ArtVerona is much better than Frieze in London

Let me explain why at this historical stage a contemporary art fair like ArtVerona is much better than Frieze in London. Despite the fact that this year the London fair seems to be seemingly relaunched. We are coming from a historical period, the la...
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Is Ai Weiwei still a current artist? What the exhibition at Palazzo Fava in Bologna is like.

Ai Weiwei's exhibition is spread over the two floors of Palazzo Fava in Bologna. On the second floor is a varied selection of works by the Chinese artist: from the action of breaking an ancient Ming vase to another Ming vase with the Coca Cola logo p...
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The art market is in crisis because the absence of criticism and confrontation has killed the contemporary

Is the art market in crisis? And is that really a bad thing? Also, which art? That which is contemporary but is actually modern (i.e., from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s)? Or that which is truly "contemporary" and made in the last fifteen ...
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