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MÉLISSA TRESSE: The fragile mix of living things
Feb 18, 2020
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Melissa Tresse loves animals, dead or alive, real or imaginary. They constitute under its drypoint a bestiary which plunges its roots in medieval tales but which also says a lot about the precariousness of living beings at the present time.
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Verona: Tourist accidentally destroys the famous "Van Gogh chair" at Palazzo Maffei
Jun 16, 2025
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In Verona, a tourist accidentally destroyed a precious work on display at Palazzo Maffei : the famous "Van Gogh chair," covered in Swarovski crystals. Designed by artist Nicola Bolla , this sculpture paid homage to the world of Van Gogh. The incident, captured by a security camera, has rekindled the debate on visitor behavior in museums in the age of social media.
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SMAC and Fiorucci Foundation: Venice Redefines its Cultural Future
Apr 29, 2025
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In Venice, the San Marco Art Centre and the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation are ushering in a new cultural era by combining historical heritage and contemporary art. These two centers are creating an artistic corridor between San Marco and Dorsoduro, energizing the city with immersive exhibitions, artist residencies, and international programming.
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Hetty Hameleers: When photography becomes a breath of soul and nature
Jan 17, 2025
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Hetty Hameleers creates powerful works that blend photography and digital art to raise awareness of the fragile beauty of the animal world. Produced in museum-quality limited editions, her portraits are deeply moving and represent a meaningful artistic investment.
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Odile Guichard: Hand-sewn emotion
Jul 16, 2024
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4 minutes read
Odile Guichard transforms antique thread and fabrics into poetic works, subtly merging embroidery and painting. Her delicate art, both tactile and visual, creates a profound connection between memory, material, and emotion.
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All the Tips to take care of your Art Collection
Apr 23, 2021
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6 minutes read
Whether you choose to buy art as an investment or to satisfy your aesthetic quest, it's important to take special care in the conservation of your artworks to avoid damage due to time or irreversible mistakes. Today, we give you some essential tips to cherish your precious art collection.
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Metaphors and Meanings: Banksy's Latest Works Spark Debate
Aug 7, 2024
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Banksy's two new politically charged artworks in southwest London, depicting a teetering goat and two elephants reaching out, have sparked widespread debate and speculation amidst recent far-right riots in the U.K.
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Discover Rembrandt's "The Night's Watch" at the Rijksmuseum as you've never seen it before
Nov 9, 2021
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The Rijksmuseum's Operation Night Watch program has reached its conclusion. Researchers are now inspecting the back of The Night Watch painting. Measurements will be made using light or sound waves to determine how well the support canvas is attached to the original on which Rembrandt painted.
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Environmentalists Challenge Guggenheim's Expansion
Oct 23, 2024
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Environmentalists oppose Guggenheim's expansion near the Urdaibai reserve in Bilbao, citing concerns for the biosphere.
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Contemporary art enters the Vatican with an exhibition in the famous Apostolic Library
Nov 8, 2021
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A Few Steps From the Sistine Chapel, the Vatican Library Has Just Opened Its First Permanent Contemporary Art Exhibition. The Italian artist Pietro Ruffo's installation will be on display until the end of February 2022.
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Mind-Blowing Artistic Genius: Otobong Nkanga Wins a Whopping $100,000 Prize!
Oct 6, 2023
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Otobong Nkanga, an artist based in Antwerp, has won the Nasher Prize for Sculpture, along with a $100,000 award and a future exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. The museum has also decided to present the award biennially for better preparation and communication.
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Archaeologists have found the tomb of an ancient Egyptian official who died 4,300 years ago
May 20, 2022
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Last week, a statement from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Warsaw said that the tomb of an ancient Egyptian official who was in charge of keeping secret documents in the royal chancellery had been found in the ancient Egyptian necropolis Saqqara.
Art History
Ten Painted Waves on Canvas: The Sea That Shaped Art History
May 20, 2025
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9 minutes read
A top ten of the most popular paintings that depict the ocean in all its nuances—calm, meditative, romantic, or majestic. Ten iconic works accompanied by brief anecdotes and curiosities that reveal the timeless allure of the sea as seen through the eyes of art…
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Bill Hammond: New Zealand’s Iconic Zoomorphic Paintings
Nov 14, 2024
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Bill Hammond was a renowned New Zealand artist known for his dreamlike paintings that often explored the relationship between humanity and nature, inspired by his visit to the remote Auckland Islands. His work is characterized by a unique blend of intricate detail, flattened landscapes, and symbolic figures, addressing themes of cultural identity and the consequences of human impact on the environment.
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Valeria Feliù, a new art project...
Sep 14, 2022
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3 minutes read
Valeria Feliù, an Argentinian contemporary artist born in 1970, driven by a strong passion for painting, which has accompanied her since her earliest age, wants to tell us about her new series of artworks, titled "Anthropocene Guardian Keepers"...
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Nicolas Monjo, the charm of narrow spaces
Jun 25, 2022
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4 minutes read
The figures superimposed in narrow spaces, which characterize Nicolas Monjo's pictorial research, stem from the idea of an art aimed at telling about society and, in particular, the difficulties of individuals...
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Petrit Halilaj Transforms Children's Sketches and Balkan Memories into an Exhibit on the Met's Rooftop
May 2, 2024
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Petrit Halilaj, a 38-year-old Kosovar artist, has created a unique installation, titled Abetare, on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibit includes a large spider-shaped sculpture and a house-like structure, both infused with elements that reflect Halilaj's Balkan heritage and his personal history...
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Cj Hendry enchants Brooklyn with her immersive exhibition "Keff Joons"
Apr 14, 2025
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Cj Hendry transforms a Brooklyn gallery into a playful and immersive universe with Keff Joons, an exhibition inspired by Jeff Koons' balloon sculptures. Through interactive and nostalgic works, it explores themes of joy, fragility, and collective memory.
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Bad Replica: The raw brilliance of a diverted beauty
Mar 5, 2025
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Bad Replica is a self-taught Montenegrin artist who reworks masterpieces with a naive, raw, and deeply sincere style. Blending humor, pain, and spontaneity, his works remind us that art can be powerful even (and especially) when it breaks the mold.
Art History
The bust: comparing stories
Oct 16, 2022
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8 minutes read
Although the bust originated in Hellenistic Greece and reached its peak popularity in the ancient Roman world, it has undergone interpretative variations throughout the centuries, re-presenting itself even in contemporary times, a time when, thanks to the latest technology, it has also taken shape in a 3-D version...
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David Mwayila, creating a better future
Feb 25, 2023
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4 minutes read
"First, it was in primary school that my teacher had oriented me to do art, and afterwards I felt obliged to do art, in order to denounce the injustices that we, the children of Congolese soldiers, undergo".
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Lucian Tidorescu: A unique vision of the world, between satire, poetry and visual audacity
May 9, 2024
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Lucian Tidorescu is a Romanian painter whose works combine vibrant colors, visual narrative, and a critical outlook on the world. His unique style is as compelling for its graphic beauty as it is for the depth of its subject matter.
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Aaron Young: Performance, Destruction & Action
Oct 21, 2024
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11 minutes read
With a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University, Aaron Young has become a major figure in the art world. He's known for his bold and innovative creations that challenge what's possible in art...
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Wolfgang Tillmans: Capturing Subculture Through Photography
Nov 4, 2024
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16 minutes read
Wolfgang Tillmans, born in 1968 in Germany, is an influential photographer known for his diverse work that explores everyday surroundings and the photographic medium. He was the first non-British photographer to win the Turner Prize and has had major retrospectives at prominent institutions like the Museum of Modern Art and Tate Modern...
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Interview | Stefano Mazzolini: The Artist Who Transcends the Limits of Form and Memory
May 15, 2025
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Stefano Mazzolini is an artist who fuses abstraction and figuration, creating works where transformation and memory are manifested through organic and sculptural forms. His work, imbued with mystery and introspection, invites a profound reflection on identity, time, and matter, offering a rich and complex visual and emotional experience.
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Claudia König: Even as a child, I loved doing handicrafts and painting
Apr 23, 2024
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"My first works were pictures, abstract paintings, preferably on canvas or wood. More by chance, I started making papier-mâché sculptures for an exhibition."...
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Urs Fischer: Swiss Artist's Wax Sculptures & Anti-Art
Oct 17, 2024
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Urs Fischer, a Swiss-born artist, has made a big splash in the contemporary creative world. His pieces, made from unexpected materials, push the limits of what we think of as art. They make us think about how things change and how short-lived life can be.
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Carol Bove: A Journey Through Sculpture, Materiality, and Public Spaces
Jan 24, 2025
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Carol Bove is an American artist known for her large-scale sculptures and installations that explore materiality and space. Her work often combines diverse materials, such as steel, concrete, and organic elements, challenging traditional notions of display and reinterpreting historical artistic strategies.
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Outsider art: a controversial movement
Jun 29, 2022
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"True art is where no one expects it, where no one thinks about it or utters its name. Art is above all vision, and vision, many times, has nothing in common with intelligence nor with the logic of ideas"...
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The different histories of Expressionism
Aug 3, 2022
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«Never was there an era more ravaged by despair, horror, death. Never has more sepulchral silence reigned over the world. Never has man been smaller. Never has he been more restless. Never has joy been more absent, and freedom more dead. And here is howling despair: man cries out for his soul, a single cry of anguish rises from our time. Art, too, screams in the darkness, calls for rescue, invokes the spirit: it is Expressionism».
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Did you know that golf has been immortalized by great masterpieces of art?
May 22, 2022
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Many masterpieces that fall outside the main themes of the fine arts, such as, for example, that of landscape, portrait, genre scenes, etc., are often unknown. The above emerges forcefully in regard to works that, although they were created by the greatest masters in history, immortalized the elite world of golf...
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Pop art and animals
May 29, 2022
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Despite the great popularity of Pop art, there are some themes addressed by Pop art that, falling outside the standard topical, turn out to be less well-known, just like the works depicting animals, made by iconic artists of the pop world such as: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, Takashi Muracami, Jeff Koons, and Yayoi Kusama.
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The Art of Sukkot and its Cultural Evolution
Apr 18, 2024
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Sukkot, the Feast of Booths, is a tradition-rich Jewish celebration, where temporary sukkahs and the four species symbolize dependence on and gratitude to God for protection and harvests. Sukkot art, through illustrations, installations and digital works, serves not only to educate but also to strengthen cultural identity by interpreting these ancestral themes in a modern and inclusive way.
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Serge Chamchinov: Crafting Artistic Narratives Through Books
Aug 28, 2024
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Serge Chamchinov, once an analytical chemist, has become a trailblazer in contemporary artist books by blending artistic techniques with deep text and visual exploration, redefining the artist’s book and inspiring future generations.
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Interview | Laurent Chevrollier: I have my own style
May 31, 2025
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7 minutes read
" My artistic journey is rather chaotic because, you see, I am color blind. I always had the ambition to become an artist, but this anomaly posed a problem for me. Without a doubt, today everything seems possible, but when I was younger, it seemed complicated to me that my work could be recognized knowing this."...
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Frida Kahlo's life told through her paintings
Aug 31, 2022
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The 1926 Self-Portrait with Velvet Dress represents one of the earliest works created by Frida Kahlo, the iconic Mexican artist whose passion for art developed precisely one year earlier, namely in 1925, when...