Who is Raja El Fani

From Mount Fuji to Mount Etna and Mount Vesuvius: a history of geological art

"We belong to something beautiful," promise the billboards for a multinational cosmetics company. Instead, according to Kant, it is beauty that is inherent in us, and intelligible only through the lens of feelings. The basis of modern thought lies be...
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Slamming the MACRO on the front page: how to make the museum a magazine. Interview with Luca Lo Pinto

After five years, it's time to take stock for Rome's MACRO, directed by Luca Lo Pinto. In a few months, Rome's contemporary art museum, born a little more than 20 years ago in a former brewery in the capital, will have a new director. Lo Pinto's MACR...
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Is the Biennale's "Strangers Everywhere" slogan divisive? Claire Fontaine answers.

Claire Fontaine is a duo founded in Paris in 2004 by Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill: one of their works, Strangers Everywhere, inspired the title of the international exhibition at this year's Venice Biennale, curated by Adrian Pedrosa. Raja El...
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Biennale award-winning artist speaks: 'Palestine and statelessness without pavilions? The Biennale's statute should be changed."

Samia Halaby (Jerusalem, 1936) is the only Palestinian artist in the main exhibition of the Venice Art Biennale. Her 1969 painting Black is Beautiful, a tube crucifix that cites Optical Art but could just as well be an enlargement of a detail of Fern...
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