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Martin Holman is a British writer and former Florence resident who often returns to Italy.
An exhibition at Pistoia's Palazzo Buontalenti retraces the anti-modernist visionary's lengthy career.
Mark Rothko’s awesome spaces for “the sacred in the secular world”
Founded by German artists in 1905, Villa Romana has shaped Florence’s cultural life for 120 years, enduring war, exile and shifting frontiers.
"Life Pleasures" at Museo Novecento explores the work of the provocative and forward-thinking British artist.
Florence celebrates Fra Angelico with an outstanding exhibition.
The French artist has long demonstrated a deep affinity with Italy.
Martin Holman reviews the exhibition at Villa Bardini celebrating the 20th century art historian responsible for canonising Caravaggio.
Berlin-based American artist Jason Dodge exhibits at San Niccolò Casa del Popolo.
An in-depth review of the Nico Vascellari MELMA exhibition at Forte Belvedere.
An in-depth review of the Luca Giordano: Baroque Master exhibition at Palazzo Medici Riccardi
An in-depth review of the Alberto Giacometti and Lucio Fontana exhibitions at Palazzo Vecchio and Museo Novecento.
As a city with the world’s attention, how does Florence prevent its glorious heritage in culture from stifling the achievements of today?
A review of the Nel Tuo Tempo exhibition by Olafur Eliasson, currently on at Palazzo Strozzi.
Meet the artist once rated by Modigliani as Italy’s “only painter”.
A review of the Giorgio Griffa exhibition, UnitiSeparati, now showing at Villa Romana until September 16.
Photographs, plaster casts, drawing paper, Plexiglas and a set of objects all appear in Giulio Paolini’s exhibition at Museo Novecento.
Painting on a monumental scale, says the British artist Jenny Saville, “has always felt right for me”. Visiting museums as a child and student, she saw that the great painters ...
In an interview a few years ago Jeff Koons insisted that “I’ve made what The Beatles would have made if they had made sculpture”. While that claim will not help ...
Florence is famous as an epicentre of artistic revolution and the Renaissance is justifiably the best known. Even in the last century, the city contributed a cultural tremor when the ...
“This woman drags the whole of Moscow and the whole of St Petersburg behind her; they don’t just imitate her work, they imitate even her personality.” Praise of that stature ...
Ian Kiaer is a British artist who has exhibited throughout Europe and North America. In 2009, he was accorded a one-man show at Turin’s prestigious GAM, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, ...
Ralph Rugoff, the US curator behind the centrepiece exhibition at this year’s Venice Biennale, believes in the potential of art. “An exhibition,” he declares, “should open people’s eyes to previously ...
The single constant presence in the work of Marina Abramović is the figure of the artist herself. For more than 40 years, her body has been exposed to an alarming ...
