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Not more, but deeper: Ordet’s curatorial and editorial vision

At the intersection of contemporary art and publishing, Ordet and its sister project Lenz Press champion a thoughtful, sustainable, and collaborative approach to cultural production in today’s accelerated world

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Sofia Zevi: I don’t use Instagram, I don’t need it

As society chases constant novelty, —yet the value of honest endures. Sofia Zevi and the need to be critical, today when everything seems to have to be 'wow' on social media

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Art Basel 2025: What Hides Behind Every White Wall of the Fair?

White walls, invisible materials, global logistics: Art Basel 2025 lays bare the environmental paradox of art fairs, where aesthetic minimalism meets concrete consumption

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Rainbows in Shadows by Jenna Gribbon: seeing and being seen

Jenna Gribbon’s first solo show in Milan challenges the definition of looking, inviting the viewer to step into the artist’s place and inhabit her subjectivity

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Can Juergen Teller be Just Like Us?

In 7 ½ at Sabbioneta’s Palazzo Giardino, Juergen Teller and Dovile Drizyte turns historic ceilings and raw snapshots into an intimate stage for love, legacy, and domestic spectacle

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Oda Jaune Reclaiming Wings: Angels Among Ruins

Being religious was nearly a crime. At home, my parents trained me to answer school ques- tions carefully, to evade, to feign indifference. No one could know we were believers - every- one watched everyone

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Beyond the ashes: Isabelle Albuquerque crafts eternal narratives of feminine agency

"I struggled with the disconnect between my internal femininity and my body. It was before the internet. It was isolating, but there was the Amazonians…" From her studio on the edge of Sierra Madre, Isabelle Albuquerque reflects on her creative path, material choices, and the politics of belonging

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Rediscovering Marine Forests at Miart: Julian Charrière’s Art for Ruinart

Julian Charrière has conceived an ode to the Lutetian Sea, a vast body of water that covered the Champagne region 45 million years ago. At Miart, Ruinart continues its initiative, Conversations with Nature

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Adriàn Castañeda: Mantenga la calma at Madrid Art Week

Founded as an alternative platform to traditional contemporary art spaces, UVNT Art Fair returned to Matadero Madrid for its ninth edition. An interview with Adriàn Castañeda on his public installation

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“I am not a painter”: an Interview with Daniel Buren

“Many painters, few geniouses” says Daniel Buren. His investigation began in the 1960s with the use of vertical stripes, each measuring 8.7 cm: interventions on fabric, glass, wood, flags

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Stones that breathe and water that sees: Tarek Atoui

With dripping water, a breathing organ, and handmade Korean drums, Improvisation in 10 Days unites Atoui’s work into an evolving sonic environment

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Jordan Watson reimagines the present of the Black community with “Easier to Breathe” in St. Moritz

Robilant + Voena presents Jordan Watson’s Afrofuturist works in the Protestant Church of St. Moritz – an interview with Jordan Watson on art, digital community, and racism

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In the Age of Imitation, Les Lalannes’ Timeless Vision Stands Apart

For François and Claude Lalanne, a hippopotamus becomes a bathtub. Whether at an exhibition or an auction, this is how collectors' obsessions start

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Jean Cocteau’s drawings: explicit sexuality – It is all about poetry

For Cocteau, it was all poetry: a drawing blended with words, Jean Marais the lover and actor in Orpheus, his friendship with Peggy Guggenheim, a relationship with Natalie Paley, the Cartier sword – and opium

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Kiki Smith: legends, fairy tales, and religious icons

Bronze sculptures and small-scale paintings are set up inside the Galleria Lorcan O'Neill as within a temple or a church

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The Swab Barcelona Art Fair opens towards East Asia: where are the tentacles of the Octopus?

The art fair opens up to the global scene while at the same time furthering Barcelona’s own art tradition. This year’s edition focuses on East Asia, the cities of Tokyo, Seoul and Taipei

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What happened this summer at Centrale Fies

"We explore whether a cake can become more than just a treat: can it be a bold, chaotic, and revolutionary landscape?" interview with Barbara Boninsegna, artistic director and founder of Centrale Fies

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Saodat Ismailova: tigers, silk, cotton and the Uzbek cosmic embroidery

Working with dreams, oral narratives, silk, and glass, filmmaker and artist Saodat Ismailova’s work at Pirelli Hangar Bicocca explores the entangled histories of Central Asia

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«Am I dreaming or awake?» – the schizophrenic work of Cinzia Ruggeri

Spell and reality by Cinzia Ruggeri. In conversation with Luca Lo Pinto, creative director of Cinzia says..., the ended exhibition at MACRO in Rome that is moving to London

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Cassi Namoda – «I feel pregnant with work: all these ideas want to have a birth»

«Galleries should have no expectations. Every artist has overworked or underworked something. I will be the only one to know if it's finished». Cassi Namoda on her approach to work and art

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CHART Art Fair, Copenaghen. Interview with Director Julie Quottrup Silbermann

Neo Nordic Architecture challenged the white cube gallery format with a flexible wall system which lets the daylight through to illuminate the artworks – while at night it can be lighten up with an adjustable lighting system

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Gaetano Pesce: «we can’t be solid; we are as liquid as our time»

From the polyurethane of the UP series to the resins of Vieni a Vedere installation for Bottega Veneta: experimentation doesn't need to be taught; it just has to be done

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A Look Inside Painter Alexander James’ London Studio

Alexander James, known for his large-scale and layered abstractionist paintings, has a tendency to bring together in his compositions what many would consider to be disparate subjects

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Pop and nostalgia at Nomad Capri: rough water and Andy Warhol’s analog photography

Andy Warhol's photographs for the first time in Capri for the 14th edition of Nomad Circle – in conversation with the curators of the exhibition Jim Hedges and Martin Brûlé

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Alice Guareschi: an action for house lights

The 16 photographs that make up Je m’appelle Olympia were shot right after the live activation of the light choreography in the theatre's empty space

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Christoph Büchel at Fondazione Prada: a politically-charged trompe l’oeil project on debt

Fondazione Prada in Venice transformed into a pawnshop – Swiss artist Christoph Büchel on the notion of debt and the many declinations of it, from the religious to the economic

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Minotaur – the rough love story between Lily Stockman and Le Corbusier in Paris

The American artist Lily Stockman is the first woman to exhibit at Maison La Roche – with an exhibition that follows her “obsession” with Le Corbusier, blending Greek mythology and a shared past in India

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How to Handle With Care: a show-guide on art collecting and the relevance of exhibition spaces

A robot - a stuffed dog - following training related to the description of the works, is able to produce an analysis together with ChatGPT - its observations are ironically expelled as if the dog pooped

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Dominique White: a Black future hasn’t happened yet, but must

The Max Mara Art Prize for Women presents Dominique White’s work Deadweight – found objects gleaned from shipyards, such as sails, ropes and chains, retracing Black Diaspora and human fragility

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Hyperlocal installations produced with CO2 in mind – A Feral Commons (or: A Forgotten Place)

For A Feral Commons, Muhannad Shono studied unnoticed ecologies in Dubai’s urban Alserkal Avenue. He applied his rebellious manifestation philosophy to the industrial Al Quoz area

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William Kentridge: «Identity is a continuous construction»

In Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot the South African artist reflects on humanity in a close dialogue with his alter-ego, a metaphor for the artist’s critical eye

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Ai Weiwei: fuck the mundane structure

Ai Weiwei returns to Italy with the exhibition Neither Nor at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Tuscany. Between lego, antique stools and criticism to art critics, the artist confirms to be a maverick thinker

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Art Paris 2024: avant-garde, inclusion, sustainability and human fragility

Art Paris 26th edition saw the debut of the BNP Paribas Banque Privée Prize, which was awarded to Nathalie Du Pasquier for her multidisciplinary practice as illustrative of an era

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Brands and independent publishing: the Bottega Veneta case

Today brands play a role in the promotion and diffusion of independent fashion publishing which seems to be experiencing a new golden age – the Bottega Veneta fanzine

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Deborah Poynton: «overcome by vertigo – knowing I will die, while acting like I won’t»

Discordant objects amongst natural landscapes, nude portraits of herself, her friends and family, Deborah Poynton’s practice is about creating the illusion of reality, applying layers of oil painting

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Marion Baruch: humans made textile before writing

The curiosity towards humanity, the desire to experiment with the unknown, fabric and movement: the Romanian textile artist talks about her latest solo show

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Public cruising and orgies: Raphael Hubner’s male art is a modern Kama Sutra

The Brazilian artist draws sex positions men can perform in public and private spaces. Raphael Hubner homoerotic art outline men intimacy and sex in conservative Brazil

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Langston Uibel on pursuing cinema in a post-streaming landscape

Films are made in consortium. Langston Uibel discusses processes of collaboration and notions of artistic voice with the award winning actor

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How Unreal We Are. SIRA cultural hub in Paris slams human fragility in viewer’s face

In the cultural hub SIRA in Paris, the nomadic curatorial project Shivers Only uses video art and analog photography to carve out human fragility and depict How Unreal We Are

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Corporeal and digital – multidisciplinary artist Aziza Kadyri’s blend of old and new

Kadyri combines extended reality (AR/VR) and traditional art forms in works exploring the themes of decolonization, displacement, feminism, identity, social invisibility, and migration

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It was fun even a thousand years ago – even Medieval images were memeable

Dicks, killer rabbits, and giant snails: a look at Medieval humor – from the recent discoveries by Dr. James Wade to @weirdmedievalguys and @medievalmarginalia accounts

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Jeremy Hutchison: «I’m interested in perverting dominant culture. Queering power»

Waste colonialism and consumerism, environmental and social justice: the British artist’s latest project, Dead White Man, investigates the fate of the used clothes we send to the Global South

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Roses and hunter: Farshad Farzankia honors the strength of women from Iran

«I experienced pain in my family and my close relationships, people going to jail and not coming back. I was born into this chaos of uncertainty» – Farshad Farzankia on politics and movement in Iran

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Jota Mombaça about political intersectionality and utopia as transition

Queer artist Jota Mombaça discusses her work as a radical reorientation to history and memory, allowing the elements to reveal perspectives inaccessible to people

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Gurjeet Singh’s idiosyncrasy: textile sculptures respond to notions of stereotype labelism

Rural Indian subjectivity found in 3d textile sculptures. Gurjeet Singh handcrafts bold narratives of identity, isolation and sexual exploration into faces made of fabric and stuffing

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Art, literature and activism. Ali Omar Ermes’ artwork as a tool for cultural diplomacy

Ali Omar Ermes art served as a bridge between these Libya and Europe, transcending walls of discord, and promoting a sense of mutual appreciation and respect

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«People are resigned to social fatalism» – Hicham Benohoud’s work depicts Morocco

Acceptance of social fatalism. Hicham Benohoud’s images show the social abyss from which many Moroccans suffer, not in a miserabilist way but rather in a plastic or artistic way

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Collaboration across borders – Magazzino Italian Art traces the contemporary Italian identity

Magazzino Italian Art – the museum's second building, the Robert Olnick Pavilion, designed by Spanish architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo, will open to the public on September 14, 2023

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Photography is dead, Jean-Vincent Simonet considers alternative processes

Considering the photographic aura with Jean-Vincent Simonet. The artist discusses his process involving hacked inkjet printers and experimental modes of composition

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Caleb Hahne Quintana: migration and masculinity in Southwestern America

Approaching the American Southwest through a new lens of realism, the American painter considers his family history and national myth through memory-inflected paintings