contemporary art

June 30, 2017
Magazzino Makes Waves for American Fans of Contemporary Italian Art Magazzino Italian Art , the newest contemporary art space nestled in New York’s Hudson River Valley, opened its doors this week.

June 25, 2017
Roberto Cuoghi at the Venice Biennale Roberto Cuoghi’s Imitazione di Cristo (2017) is certainly one of the darker features at a Biennale that has garnered much criticism for being too “hippy,” cheerful, and politically tone-deaf.

June 23, 2017
Michelangelo Pistoletto, 1967, quoted in Richard Flood and Frances Morris (eds.

June 18, 2017
Maria Lai at documenta 14 With Skulptur Projekte Münster , documenta 14 , and the Venice Biennale now open and going through the fall, the contemporary art world enjoys a rare trifecta of the major continental exhibitions.

June 11, 2017
Lara Favaretto at Skulptur Projekte Münster With the openings this weekend of both Skulptur Projekte Münster and documenta 14 , the contemporary art world enjoys, along with the ongoing Venice Biennale , a rare trifecta of the major continental exhibitions.

May 29, 2017
Sculptor Enzo Plazzotta was born in Mestre, near Venice, in 1921.

May 7, 2017
A site-specific installation combining high-definition video projections and the buildings, public areas, and lagoon environments of Venice opens today – 7 May 2017 – in advance of the Biennale di Venezia , which gets underway later this week.

April 3, 2017
Happy birthday Giuseppe Penone!

March 10, 2017
Opening Today: Electronic Renaissance @ Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 10 March-23 July Born in New York in 1951, Bill Viola is widely recognizes as one of the leading contemporary video artists.

February 12, 2017
Mario Mafai, who with his wife Antonietta Raphaël was one of the central figures of a group of artists called the Scuola di Via Cavour, was born 12 February 1902 in Rome, where he lived and worked for much of his life until his death there in 1965.