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Droste Effect | Apr 25, 2022
59th International Art Exhibition | The Milk of Dreams The 59th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale is finally open: this edition was delayed by one year due to the world health …
Shuai Yin | Feb 21, 2022
A Review of Uncooperative Contemporaries The curtain of “Bodies of Water: The 13th Shanghai Biennale” rose at Power Station of Art in early November, 2020. At the same time, European countries have again …
Droste 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 …
Robin 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. …
The 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 …
Marco 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) …
Droste 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 …
The 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 …
Droste 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 …
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 …
Vincenzo 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 …
Marco 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 …