Translated by Como Cosima for UrbanContest - The early twentieth century saw the birth of the custom to decorate the institutional representation offices with works belonging to our museums. That has often been the result of dispersion of a lot of art works. More than one hundred paintings over the years have been destroyed or lost. To date the Special Superintendence for the Museum Pole of the city of Rome has more than 400 works of art lent to other offices of the State. [Read more →]

Translated by Como Cosima for UrbanContest (freesea@alice.it) – All Great Britain is already in turmoil for the next Olympics that will take place in the summer 2012. Of course among collateral events there are also a lot of cultural manifestations, just think of fourth Plinth, famous fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square that, in 2012, will see to alternate the Golden Child on the rocking Horse by Elmgreen&Dragset and the enormous blue cock by Katharina Fritsch. [Read more →]

More than 130 works shall be hung on the ceiling of Guggenheim about ten miniatures made for tasting the  preparation

translated by Cosima Como - from Corriere della Sera di Pierluigi Panza – He has declared he gives up. He has confirmed it last days to Randy Kennedy of “New York Times”. He has referred us in a more whispered tone “I wish I work less than now. We shall see. Art is full of departures and return. Duchamp affirmed he wanted to abandon it and play chess, but it wasn’t time. [Read more →]

(ri)belli e dannati “together Colen, Lowman and Dash Snow at Palazzo Rospigliosi, American Academy and Macro.

Not only Gagosian. Dan Colen is, in these days, the protagonist also of the triple show attended by Massimiliano De Carlo (inside his gallery in Milano, the artist’s first show) and entitled “three Amigos”. Three shows in three different places: Colen at “Palazzo Rospigliosi”, Nate Lowman at the American Academy in Rome, Dash Snow at Macro. [Read more →]

Mc Cartney’s friend had also designed some Beatles’ albums.

By Marco Vallora for “La Stampa.it  translated by Como Cosima e Angelo Gentili – The great names of pop, like in one of Robert Frost’s poem, drop slowly in the inox wash-basin of the death, almost to demonstrate that a certain sense of group and of a curious cohesion of movement had however retained him. One by one, slowly, inexorably: a haemorrhage. [Read more →]