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Ryan Trecartin’s 2015 Triennial at the New MuseumFrancesco Lecci | Apr 15, 2015
The Triennial is an exhibition the New Museum presents to the world every year to focus, from a curator’s point of view, on the very new trends of contemporary art. This year’s edition, run by …
Working, working, working. I prefer the sound of the sea at Centre d’Art Contemporain GenèveEleonora Castagna | Apr 14, 2015
The young artist Alfredo Aceto (1991, Turin, Italy), now in residence at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, presents an exhibition entitled “Lavorare, lavorare, lavorare, preferisco il rumore del mare(1).” Following Refaire le portrait, …
Arianna Carossa at Milan’s new project space TintoriaDroste Effect | Mar 30, 2015
Arianna Carossa’s exhibition The Aesthetic of My Disappearance in Milan marks the the first chapter of a new project, Tintoria. Tintoria mixes contemporary art and fashion, a laboratory to sprawl contemporary thoughts and contents, to …
A Walk Through The Art. Independent 2015 New YorkMatilde Soligno | Mar 10, 2015
The Independent 2015 art fair took place in New York on 5-8 March, during the Armory Arts Week. Independent 2015 was conceived by Elizabeth Dee and Darren Flook and developed in conjunction with creative advisor …
A Walk Through The Art. The 2015 Armory ShowEleonora Castagna | Mar 8, 2015
The 2015 Armory Show – now at its 17th edition – selected 199 galleries from 28 different countries. The art fair takes place in New York – this year March 5-8, 2015. The 2015 Armory Show …
Interview with Massimilano Gioni on the 2015 Armory Focus: MENAMDroste Effect | Mar 7, 2015
We spoke with Massimilano Gioni, director of New York’s New Museum, about this year’s Armory Focus: MENAM, a section dedicated to the Middle East, North Africa, and the Mediterranean, and curated by Omar Kholeif for …
Interview with Omar Kholeif, curator of Armory Focus: Middle East, North Africa, and the MediterraneanDroste Effect | Mar 7, 2015
We talked with Omar Kholeif, curator of this year’s Armory Focus: MENAM, a section dedicated to the Middle East, North Africa, and the Mediterranean inside The 2015 Armory Show art fair in New York City. …
Intervals – Allora & Calzadilla in Philadelphia at The Fabric WorkshopEleonora Castagna | Mar 3, 2015
Last Sunday it was a super cold day in Philly, so I spent the whole afternoon at The Fabric Workshop. A friend of mine was my tour guide through the city, which I was visiting …
Walid Raad: Institutional critique and art engagé at MADREEleonora Salvi | Feb 23, 2015
“Preface / Prefazione” is the first solo exhibition of Walid Raad in Italy. It is curated by Alessandro Rabottini and Andrea Viliani at the MADRE in Naples and it is the outstanding result of the …
Experience Matters. Kazuo Shiraga and Satoru Hoshino at Dominique Lévy New YorkRobin Newman | Feb 19, 2015
Gutai, which translates as “embodiment” or “concrete”, is most commonly understood in the West as the name of the avant-garde art group that was formed in 1954. The Dominique Lévy gallery in New York City …
Michael Dean. Qualities of Violence at De Appel, AmsterdamMara Bertoni | Feb 17, 2015
Once you get into De Appel, you step into small black plastic balloons, and immediately ask yourself if they are filled with some killer gas instead of air. Especially since millions of cents are inviting you to …
Crossing over to Modernity: Too Early, Too Late and the dichotomy Islam/WestVincenzo Estremo | Feb 16, 2015
During my studies of History of Art I had two obsessions, better say, two artists I was obsessed with. I am talking about Antonello da Messina and Gentile Bellini. Both of them were not only …
