Contemporary art

Rome, Balloon Museum arrives at La Nuvola: large interactive inflatable artworks by contemporary artists

From December 20, 2024 to March 30, 2025, the Balloon Museum, a unique traveling project produced by Lux Entertainment that places the visitor and his or her direct experience at the center, presents a new interactive contemporary art exhibition in t...
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Paris, JR pays tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude with new immersive installation on Pont Neuf

Forty years after Christo and Jeanne-Claude's famous Pont Neuf Wrapped, a new monumental art project by JR, an artist known for his spectacular urban interventions, is taking shape to pay tribute to the couple's visionary work. In September 2025, Par...
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Does art anticipate science? Luca Rossi's artistic intuition becomes software

An idea conceived by artist Luca Rossi in 2013 has turned, more than a decade later, into a... technological product. In fact, U.S.-based developer Riley Walz recently launched IMG_0001, a platform(accessible from this address) that uses millions of ...
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Wooden houses that talk: the art of Augustas Serapinas in Milan

From December 12, 2024 to March 15, 2025, Fondazione ICA Milan will host Wooden Travel, the new solo exhibition of Lithuanian artist Augustas Serapinas (Vilnius, 1990) curated by Chiara Nuzzi. An exhibition that transforms the spaces of the former in...
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Oculus-Spei, Annalaura Di Luggo's interactive installation, arrives at the Pantheon

In Rome, the Pantheon, welcomes Oculus-Spei, an interactive multimedia installation by artist Annalaura Di Luggo that reinterprets the theme of hope in the context of Jubilee 2025. Supported by the moral patronage of the Jubilee itself, the Ministry ...
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Jasleen Kaur wins Turner Prize 2024

The Turner Prize 2024, one of the most prestigious awards in the international art scene, has been awarded to Jasleen Kaur, a British artist who won over the jury with her innovative and multidimensional approach to contemporary art. During a ceremon...
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Digital Atelier: Marco Bagnoli explores the frontiers between art and artificial intelligence

Last Saturday, Nov. 30, on the occasion of the conference The Futures of Memory,Atelier Marco Bagnoli in Montelupo Fiorentino unveiled the preview of Atelier Digitale, an innovative project by Marco Bagnoli that explores the extraordinary intersectio...
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Gerhard Richter at the Gagosian in Rome with an immersive installation celebrating the case

An immersive and monumental installation by Gerhard Richter (Dresden, 1932) for the first time in a gallery: it happens at the Gagosian venue in Rome, which from Dec. 6, 2024 to Feb. 1, 2025 hosts Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version (2019-24), a syn...
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The Snow Labyrinth of Chamois, a work of Land Art in the most unspoiled Aosta Valley

Every year, the charming village of Chamois in the Aosta Valley, the only municipality in the Alps (and probably in all of Italy) that cannot be reached by car and where cars do not pass, is transformed into a natural theater for the Snow Labyrinth t...
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10 questions and answers to understand Cattelan's Comedian: why a banana is a work of art

Fortissimo is the uproar aroused these days by Comedian, the work by Maurizio Cattelan initially presented in 2019 at Art Basel Miami at the booth of Perrotin, Cattelan's gallerist: the work was in fact sold at auction by Sotheby 's in New York for t...
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Memes about Comedian, Cattelan's banana: the funniest ones

In December 2019, the contemporary art world was shocked by news that went around the globe: a seemingly simple work of art, a banana taped to a wall, was being presented at Art Basel Miami. The author of this artistic provocation was Maurizio Cattel...
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Maurizio Cattelan's banana sold for more than $6 million

It sold for an incredible $6,240,000 Comedian, Maurizio Cattelan's famous work, the banana attached to the wall with packing tape. It was sold tonight in New York at auction at Sotheby's, which had estimated $1-1.5 million for "the banana that broke ...
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Unbelievable. Cattelan's banana up for auction for $1 million

$1 million for Cattelan's banana. Comedian, the celebrated banana taped to the wall, a 2019 work by Maurizio Cattelan (Padua, Italy, 1960) will indeed go to auction at Sotheby's, with an estimate of $1 to $1.5 million. It will be the highlight of the...
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At Palazzo Strozzi, DRIFT's refined dance of mechanical flowers: here's the work Shy Society

From Oct. 24, 2024 to Jan. 26, 2025, the Renaissance courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi in Florence will be transformed into a space where art, technology and nature are harmoniously intertwined thanks to the installation Shy Society, created by the Dutch ...
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Madre in Naples presents the world premiere of Adrian Paci's new video

Madre, Donnaregina Museum of Contemporary Art in Naples, presents the world premiere of Merging Bodies (2024), the new video by Adrian Paci (born 1969 in Shkodra, Albania; lives and works between Milan and Shkodra). The work will be screened at the m...
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Paolo Icaro in Fabriano: unveiled the work Artificio naturale at Pinacoteca Molajoli

On the occasion of the 20th Day of the Contemporary, promoted by AMACI (Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums), the City of Fabriano inaugurated today, Saturday, October 12, 2024, at 11 a.m., an important new acquisition for the collection ...
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