01Art books · The artist speaks
Manual for Young Artists: Damien Hirst in conversation with Gordon Burn
Career, art, money and persona: a critical guide to Hirst and Burn’s book-length interview.
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02Art books · The market explained
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: understanding the market with Don Thompson
Why does contemporary art reach extreme prices? Bibliography, thesis and practical lessons from Don Thompson.
03Art books · The dissenting voice
Con Art: Julian Spalding against Damien Hirst
The pamphlet challenging Hirst and conceptual art: arguments, limits and reasons to read it before buying.
042027 guide · European women artists and market
Ten European mid-career women artists to know in 2027
Critical profiles and market evidence for ten European women artists: works, museums, galleries, documented prices and cultural reasons to follow them.
05The curator’s craft · 01
Cecilia Alemani and Simone Leigh: curating public sculpture
From High Line Plinth to Brick House: how a curator builds space, duration and audiences around a monumental work.
06The curator’s craft · 02
Massimiliano Gioni and Sarah Lucas: the body according to Au Naturel
More than 150 works across three floors: how Massimiliano Gioni and Margot Norton turned a survey into an argument about gender, desire and power.
07The curator’s craft · 03
Germano Celant and Jannis Kounellis: the retrospective as montage
At Ca’ Corner della Regina, more than sixty works reconstructed Kounellis’s practice through material, architecture and exhibition memory.
08The curator’s craft · 04
Okwui Enwezor and El Anatsui: scale as curatorial thought
Triumphant Scale crossed fifty years of work and showed how dimension, material and postcolonial history can redraw a museum.
09The curator’s craft · 05
Helen Molesworth and Kerry James Marshall: rewriting painting’s canon
Mastry framed thirty-five years of painting as a history of Black representation without separating visual pleasure from political responsibility.
10Art, mind and survival · Quote 01
Louise Bourgeois: “Art is a guaranty of sanity”
A sentence became an artwork: creation did not erase torment for Bourgeois, but gave it form, rhythm and distance.
11Art Brut and freedom · Quote 02
Jean Dubuffet and Carlo Zinelli: a madness that builds
Dubuffet’s idea of a “positive madness” meets Carlo Zinelli’s ordered and irreducible visual language.
12Van Gogh, Artaud and society · Quote 03
Antonin Artaud and Van Gogh: creating to escape hell
In his essay on Van Gogh, Artaud treats creation as a way out and indicts a society that reduces difference to illness.
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13Criticism · Young artists and the market
THE ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS. 3 UNDER 20
Aelita Andre, Andres Valencia and Mikail Akar: three rapid rises and documented entry points below €5,000, without turning youth into a guarantee of value.
14Focus · Cultural journalism, photography and identity
Francesco Arena. Other Identity, the unmissable column questioning our public face
A focus on Francesco Arena and Exibart’s weekly Other Identity column: photography, video and performance as tools for reading identity, self-representation and public space.
15Feature · Criticism and publishing
Barbara Martusciello. Removing the background noise
Criticism, curating and independent publishing: art a part of cult(ure) as a space for depth, relationships and memory.
ADVADVElena Ketra
Acquistare Arte recommends: Sculpture, installation and performance question stereotypes, desire and self-determination.
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