For a time, Willem de Kooning’s (Rotterdam, 1904–New York, 1997) painting *Yellow River* hung at the foot of the bed in David M. Solinger’s home: it was the first painting the collector saw every morning. This anecdote…
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A 1962 sculpture by Hans Arp was stolen from Germany’s most important art fair, Art Cologne, which is held annually in Cologne. The sculpture depicts a curved form that appears to grow and rise upward, cast in polished gold-colored…
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Exhibition reviews Contemporary art Keith Haring Street art Twentieth Century
One is struck by the vitality of the line and the joy of life that emanate from Keith Haring’s compositions of figures, letters, words, and concepts. It is a wave of lines, people, colors, and music, presented with organic precision…
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"I am the true Etruscan": with these words, Arturo Martini asserted the deep connection between his sculptural work and the art of an ancient civilization. This relationship will be the focus of the exhibition *Arturo Martini. I Am the…
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Social realism versus abstraction, political commitment versus the freedom of the painterly gesture: the comparison between Renato Guttuso and Emilio Vedova serves as the starting point for exploring one of the most vibrant periodsin…
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Exhibition reviews Contemporary art Modern Art Poor Art Turin Twentieth Century
The phrase that is almost automatically associated with Marisa Merz’s name is “the only woman of Arte Povera,” a definition that risks establishing her uniqueness solely to exploit it as symbolic capital for the…
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Exhibition reviews Blue Palace Edward Hopper Modern Art Pisa Twentieth Century
It’s very hard to take your eyes off *Soir Bleu* within just a few minutes. Visitors to the exhibition dedicated to Edward Hopper at Palazzo Blu in Pisa know this all too well . After the introductory section on the early career of…
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"By the way, there's a Georgia O’Keeffe painting in the closet." That single sentence—spoken almost in passing by a woman in her Manhattan apartment—was enough to bring to light a painting by the famous American artist that had…
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