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A history of the Wild West Side and the Whitney’s new public sculptureRobin Newman | Apr 25, 2021
Long before its abandoned train track was turned into a famous park (The High Line), the streets of New York’s Meatpacking District were lined with racks of raw meat, drug dealers and transexual prostitutes. …
Salvo. A performance lecture I’ve never writtenThe Lecture Agency | Jun 4, 2020
The period that anticipates Salvo’s leap to painting has often been described with a narcissistic flavor, that of the artist-author in the front row. The absence of his face in his subsequent work does …
Ryan Gander. The whisper perspectiveMarco Antelmi | May 12, 2020
Ryan Gander’s body of work fully reflects theories about the reality of the virtual. Professor, amateur philosopher – as he likes to define himself – and TV presenter, the artist from Chester (UK, born 1976) …
Scott Burton. Lecture on SelfThe Lecture Agency | Apr 27, 2020
Scott Burton’s 1973 performance lecture The Lecture Agency is a research platform, based on forms of radical pedagogy, which includes on its website a library of manifestos and other fundamental texts aimed at …
Spoken Narratives. A Book Show by REPLICADroste Effect | Apr 3, 2020
REPLICA presents Spoken Narratives, a collection of artist books by Francesco Pedraglio, Juan de la Cosa Droste Effect: This is the first year of REPLICA, and after the first year more concrete perspectives and …
The Wizards of Capitalism. A conversation with Juan Pablo MacíasVincenzo Estremo | Dec 10, 2019
In an age in which the global art market governs the artistic practice, from the margins of the art world – the peripheral city of Livorno – departs an analysis with multiple voices. The event …
Francesco Urbano Ragazzi. Making Re-Reality ManifestMarco Antelmi | Nov 21, 2019
A conversation with curators Francesco Urbano Ragazzi Francesco Urbano Ragazzi is a curatorial duo formed in 2005, whose research focuses on redefining the commission and the theoretical foundation of the work of art …
A Conversation With Sara Enrico and Andrea RespinoVincenzo Estremo | Oct 28, 2019
By using different materials and visual references to construct their narrative, Sara Enrico and Andrea Respino created the exhibition «Mai un vestito dunque, adeguato» at Quartz Studio in Turin. A few days ago I met …
Private Vision. Notes on Jonas Mekas and Other Things Concerning our Particular ConditionVincenzo Estremo | Sep 23, 2019
In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am …
Second Time Around. Interview with Dora GarcíaAnnalisa Pellino | Jul 18, 2019
Dora García (Valladolid, 1965) is a Spanish artist whose research-based practice draws on a range of different media — performance, film, sound, literary and scientific texts — using the display as a tool to investigate …
Venice Biennale 2019 | HighlightsMatilde Soligno | May 17, 2019
A Walk Through The Art – Best of: Venice Biennale 2019 A Walk Through The Art is a format that provides our readers with photo galleries presenting a selection of highlights from …
Ravi Agarwal. Ecologies of LossVincenzo Estremo | Apr 8, 2019
Indian artist Ravi Agarwal on show at PAV Turin Nowadays, photography is a kind of visual note. It has become – within the last decades of digital and “social” (r)evolution – a written track composed …
