Works and artists Contemporary art
Alex Da Corte was born in Camden, New Jersey, one of the poorest cities in the United States, and grew up in New Jersey, Pittsburgh, and Caracas. This biographical detail is not merely incidental: it is the center of gravity of his entire…
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Opinions Art Fairs Contemporary art
At Art Basel in June, there’s always someone selling something important even before the fair opens. Not during the preview hours, which are already reserved for those who have proven they deserve access—such as collectors with a…
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Works and artists Contemporary art Contemporary Art Criticism
There are surfaces that embrace color, and then there are surfaces that put it to the test. When you stand before a painting by Michael Armitage (Nairobi, 1984), the first thing you realize is that the paint, there, had to carve out its…
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Opinions Artificial Intelligence Market New technologies of art
In the contemporary art market,artificial intelligence has become an integral part of how the market is structured, how works are created, bought, sold, and even interpreted. This transformation is taking place not only in digital labs or…
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Opinions Ancient art Contemporary art Exhibitions Modern Art
Until not too long ago, an exhibition didn’t need to justify itself. The works were there, and it was enough simply to look at them. The curator could intervene, of course, but his or her mediation was optional, not structural. There was…
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Works and artists Contemporary art
There are artists who construct images, and others who push them to the point where they cease to be containable, recognizable, or stable. Giuditta Branconi’s work occupies this zone of tension, where painting does not organize the visible…
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There is a verb that the art world often uses and that is worth analyzing before anything else: to challenge. Artworks challenge the viewer. Artists challenge boundaries. Exhibitions challenge conventions. It’s a combative verb, and it’s…
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There is a silent force driving contemporary art—an impulse that goes beyond form, beyond provocation, beyond social commentary—and that seeks to touch upon something that lies beyond the visible, beyond the everyday, beyond the mere…
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