Two pieces of data emerge, and extremely prominently, from the ranking of the best exhibitions held in Italy in 2025. Before going into them, however, a few details to provide the reader with a little context. Finestre sull'Arte wanted to repeat last...
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It was two months ago that the "Tor de' Conti," a noble building erected in the Middle Ages in the Imperial Forum area, collapsed. And it is unbelievable, but unfortunately true, that in 2025 one of Rome's most significant historical buildings could ...
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There was a time whenart knew how to set the squares on fire. When Manet exhibited his Olympia in 1865, the Parisian bourgeoisie screamed outrage: it was not the nude itself, but the direct gaze of the model, who did not allow herself to be consumed ...
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In fact, it had been too long since anyone last hatched an editorial about how despicable the exhibitions we see in Italy each year are. We were getting worried. Why has no one complained yet this fall about the vile garbage heap that is the Italic e...
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In the business world,innovation is what shifts the balance. It is the force that designs the future, that breaks paradigms, that forces the system to reinvent itself. But in the contemporary art world, where everything seems unstable and in flux, wh...
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A few days ago, in the Financial Times, Bendor Grosvenor produced himself in that frivolous exercise in style for facetious people that is imagining the future of a profession, moreover in the light of the achievements, real or presumed, of artificia...
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Near Geneva, along quiet arteries that escape the tourist routes, is a complex that resembles neither a museum nor a gallery: the Geneva Freeport. The facade is austere, almost anonymous. Armored doors, fences, surveillance systems. The entrance seem...
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We receive and publish this review, written by a reader who preferred not to sign himself, on the film Caravaggio in Rome. The Journey of the Jubilee, in Italian theaters from December 1 to 3, 2025.
It is a special event that lands in cinemas from D...
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Not all artists move in the global vortex of theart market. In many parts of the world, art is born and developed in territories where the commercial system is almost nonexistent or barely noticeable. Here, art grows in a completely different terrain...
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Over the past four decades, numerous international artists have addressed the themes of peace and war in their works, often reflecting on the complexity of contemporary conflicts and their consequences. Examples include Ai Weiwei, with the installati...
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On the night of Sotheby's auctions, the most striking result is not the Klimt painting sold for $236 million but Maurizio Cattelan's postmodern toilet at only $12 million with an auction base of $10 million. This means that the gold toilet only total...
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No one believes it, but contemporary art could be a way to train new eyes. The problem is that in exhibitions, fairs and biennials we always see the same works, homogenized, interchangeable winking, strange little things, surreal painting, unusual ob...
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There is a phenomenon now familiar to those who regularly attend biennials, fairs, contemporary art museums. In front of a large installation, lights, sounds, eye-catching materials, perhaps a statement of intent half a wall long, one stops, observes...
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As of October 19, 2025, French radio stations are broadcasting Un mauvais rêve de SandroBotticelli (A Bad Dream of Botticelli https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/allons-y-voir/un-mauvais-reve-de-sandro-botticelli-6063000). The fir...
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Andy Warhol, the artist who exalted in works and thought the art of making money and immortalized the dollar icon, years ago had entered the collection of the former secretary of the Rifondazione Comunista party, Fausto Bertinotti, who had received t...
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An interesting phenomenology to study for those who want to approach contemporary art without getting distracted by too many hyperbolic concepts is the verbose use of neon signs. Scores of artists belonging to the club of "system smarts," realizing t...
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