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Clan Lazzaro – A new pole for Art City BolognaDroste Effect | May 6, 2021
Due to the current emergency, the 2021 edition of Art City Bologna is happening independently from the contemporary art fair Arte Fiera, which was postponed until next year. Art City Bologna 2021 has a …
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) …
Art Workers Italia | ManifestoDroste Effect | May 7, 2020
The following manifesto was first published by Art Workers Italia on Labor Day, May 1st, 2020. You can learn how to be a part of the project at this link. Who is …
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 …
SMASH THE SHMOOGLEARCHY. When Andy Kaufman meets Google?Droste Effect | Mar 16, 2020
Review by: Mária Horváthová Since when is becoming the thing you hate a good idea? If there’s one thing I take from transmediale festival this year, it is this mantra which I’ve since pinned …
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 …
#ArtissimaLive Darkest Desire. Artissima 2019Vincenzo Estremo | Nov 3, 2019
In Darkest Desire, Anthony Schmitz turns the Brothers Grimm on their heads, retelling the story of Little Red Riding Hood from the wolf’s perspective. It is not clear if the art world works out like …
#ArtissimaLive Interview with Namsal SiedleckiMarco Antelmi | Nov 3, 2019
Namsal Siedlecki (1986, USA) may be considered an artist of the transformation. In his practice, he brings together considerations on public and private space, institutional processes, art history and science, with a focus on chemical …
