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Martin Holman is a British writer and former Florence resident who often returns to Italy.
Chen Zhen knew time was limited when, through the 1990s, he made the sculpture now comprising the major exhibition on view at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano. The Chinese artist was suffering from a rare form of anaemia. It would claim his life in 2000 at the age of
Those who make, appreciate and promote contemporary art have long found Florence a difficult place for new art: the competition with the magnificence of its cultural past can be overwhelming. Yet two venues in Florence suggest that contemporary art can find a home in Florence and that a curious public
Sara Milne took her post as director of the British Institute of Florence in March 2011. As the founder of the London-based company Science and Media, Milne worked with ...
At the heart of Declining Democracy, the new show at the Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, is the realisation that in this new century, representative governments of the western world and the people they aspire to lead are moving farther and farther apart. Of the 12 selected artists and
The Venice Bienniale, which opens the first week of June, is modern visual art's most famous and, arguably, its grandest international festival. It attracts the cream of the global art world, with high-rolling collectors mooring glamorous yachts in view of piazza San Marco. The Biennale is also
Villa Romana, the Florence home of the Alliance of German Artists on Via Senese, has been transformed for a unique art installation, currently running there. A bourgeois family has moved in and trouble is afoot. No one, not even the maid, emerges unchanged when a mysterious young man in white
