One of the joys of spending time in a record store is not knowing what to choose. For those who go in “just to have a browse,” the risk is to spend hours flipping through countless records.…
Caterina Bellinetti
On May 14, 2025, Miss January, an oil on canvas by the South African artist Marlene Dumas…
Deeply intertwined, fear and courage have traveled together across the centuries through artwork. Art shows believers the rewards and punishments of the afterlife, reminds us of the brevity of life,…
The Joachim-Ma violin, crafted in 1714 by the great luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, Italy, sold at …
The exhibition Scottish Colourists: Radical Perspectives opened at Dovecot…
The exhibition Qi Baishi: Inspiration in Ink, on view at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco until April 7th, 2025, celebrates the 160th birth…
Darkrooms are instrumental in movie plots: tiny rooms, red lights, and photographs hanging from a piece of string. But developing a photograph is not as easy as it looks in the movies.
Hellenic Heads: George Petrides, A Personal Exploration of Greek History and Culture Over 2,500 Years is…
The light in the room glows yellow. Sounds are muffled, except for the familiar four-note bass line. Pixelated aliens rain down from the top of the screen. I shoot, but am quickly…
For our third piece on Marco Almaviva, we explore the meaning of the archive.
The Heart of Zen, which is on view at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, presents, for the first time in the United States, two of the most important paintings in Asian art.
Italian painter Marco Almaviva began his career in the late 1950s in Milan while in close contact with the artists working in the Spatialism movement, and aimed to bring art and science together to…
Marco Almaviva, Born in 1934 in Novi Ligure, Italy, has always explored the relationship between the artist and the canvas.
With over 120 artworks from 25 museums and private collections from around the world, visitors of …
“I have never been in a city that gave me the same sense of freedom as Venice,” Peggy Guggenheim wrote, “Venice is not only the city of freedom and fantasy but it is the city of pleasure and…
