Benedetto Antelami: praise of gravityby Silvia TomasiBenedetto Antelami carves the most spiritual and quotidian figures in the heaviest Medieval stone, founding blocks of cathedrals and cults.
Art hotels: cultural experiences wantedby Stefano PirovanoIt's time for alternatives, not only to art fairs. We analyze art hotels as places for artistic experience beyond mere contemplation.
Giant Polaroid, innovation or preservation?by Chiara AgradiA brief history of the Giant Polaroid, the largest transportable Polaroid ever built, which put together the art of photography with art itself.
Painting + photography according to Tatjana Dannebergby Piero BiselloTatjana Danneberg grabs fragments of real life, turning snapshots and drawings into complex paintings. Steyerl's poor image lives again.
A mistaken perspective on the Renaissanceby Antonio CarnevaleWrong, defective, crooked perspectives: they were not painters' mistakes, but ways to represent thoughts and mysteries in the Renaissance.
Raphaela Vogel: unification of the manifoldby Stefano Pirovano and Sonia D'AltoExpressionism, monumentality and manifold in the works of Raphaela Vogel, before her solo exhibition in Milan.
Broken intentions: on damaged contemporary artby Piero BiselloCollectors and museums worried about broken artworks should remember that artist's intentions can fix many issues, including material ones.
The quotidian avant-garde of Gustave Van de Woestyneby Evelyn SimonsSymbolism and everyday blend in the work of Belgian master Gustave Van de Woestyne, a modernist who was able to make pious and rural life feel contemporary.
Villa Lena (Evstafieva) + Jerome Hadey: a cultural experienceby Stefano PirovanoA residency for artists, a hotel and a farm coexist at Villa Lena, supporting each other thanks to Lena Evstafieva and Jerome Hadey's vision on creativity.
Rodolpho Parigi: an interview with the virtuosoby Maria do Carmo M. P. de PontesRodolpho Parigi can paint whatever he wants. But the big problem, even for him, is choosing what is really worth representing.
What are combs for besides untying knots?by Silvia TomasiThe answer to combs collecting lies in the artists' creativity, from the Etruscans, to Füssli, Man Ray, Picasso, Dalí, Calder...
At the show with the artist: Jennifer Tee and Renaissance Rugsby Piero BiselloWe speak with Jennifer Tee about Renaissance rugs, using history of textiles to reflect on the appropriation of visual cultures and forms of exoticism.
The symbolic, erotic, and lunar asparagusby Silvia TomasiThrough Flemish painting, Manet, Max Ernst, Andreas Gursky, and Hannah Levy, we start to believe that the asparagus has feelings too.
Marina Pinsky: it’s the images that are worth repeatingby Julia MulliéAn encompassing essay on Marina Pinsky's oeuvre, unfolding her critical narrative of images, technology and local histories.
Luigi Zuccheri, the accidental modernistby Sofia SilvaA 20th century, ancient Venetian painter who found himself modern by chance, Luigi Zuccheri pushed localism to the limit.
A suspicious dialogue between artists Francesco João and Sven Sachsalberby Stefano Pirovano, Francesco João, Sven SachsalberArtists talk to each other pretty often, and so do Francesco João and Sven Sachsalber about controversial sports figures, biking, and nineties racing suits.
The figure of the rope between gore, eros and faithby Silvia TomasiGoya, Lady Gaga, Man Ray, Giulio Paolini, Georg Baselitz, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Antonello & co., all tied together to a vibrating rope.
Bathing for gourmets: an interview with Leonard Korenby Piero BiselloWe look into fine bathing and the pleasure of inefficiency through an interview with artist, aesthete, and polemist Leonard Koren.
Why take an artwork from the place it was made for?by Antonio CarnevaleBringing works of art out of museums and back to their places of origin is what we should do: the future may begin in the church of Santa Corona in Vicenza.
Not afraid of craft: the Van der Kelen Logelain school of decorative paintingby Piero BiselloWe feature the Van der Kelen Logelain school of decorative painting in Brussels, a recognized springboard for important contemporary and applied artists.
