Is there one form of artistic expression that guides all others?

Since the beginning of the 1900s, at a European level, we have been wondering about an amazing, subtle and intense theme . Is there one art form that guides all others? Is there really an unwritten classification? And what were the criteria for its compilation? In short, does poetry or painting, literature or photography develop greater appeal? And are the so-called minor arts really that? Or was it a subtle lie to curb their potential from the start?

Ai-Da: the latest invention of Oxford professors

It is a very cultured robot girl, even capable of faithfully remaking the Tondo Doni

If I say that the new art, the one that will characterize in part the post-virus era, has already begun and you can “enjoy it in a large exhibition at the Design Museum in London, many will accuse me of being a provocateur who, for no reason, sees the role of the artist invaded by that of the robot, who in reality invents nothing, but for the moment, by force of things and design, must start again from man: portraits, figures, landscapes a

Glimmer aroused by 6 x 11 cm of short meditations (Gardini, Il book is that thing): the book brought from the library home is a promise, but the one “waiting, waiting for us” and, winking, whispering “yet to be read,” is a reproach. Borges (The Library of Babel) imagines a fantastic universe full of books and Canetti (Auto da fé) that the bibliophile comes to eliminate the windows to give them more space! Our unread books, the anti library (Taleb, The Black Swan), are a pulsating organism of desires.

For Aldo Spinelli it is the moment of the homo ludens

“Artists work when they play and play when they work”, Dino Buzzati wrote in the short story “Mestiere fortunato”. The phrase seems to have been conceived on purpose to define the research and methodological approach of Aldo Spinelli, conceptual artist and creator of games, who has always maintained that, after homo sapiens and homo faber, the time has come to give space to homo ludens because art has a primary function, that of entertaining.

Pietrasanta • Audrey Guttman at Futura Gallery

The exhibition focuses on the dialogue between the Belgian artist and the writer Jiri Kolar. 27 collages on display

Love, memory and the relationship between past, present and future are the themes explored in a mixture of different media

“Beyond the Face” is the title of Audrey Guttman’s exhibition, hosted by Futura Art Gallery in Pietrasanta, until August 7th.

Bonito Oliva at Castello di Rivoli

The creator of the Transavanguardia donates his archives to the institution allowing for a great exhibition

Is A.B.O. Theatron an ambiguous apotropaic formula? No, it is an acronym for Achille Bonito Oliva who needs no introduction; let’s quote his own words, which, like a thermometer, detect his temperature: “Critical agrarian. PartNeapolitan and part-Salernitan.

The floor to Micol Forti, director of the Collection of Contemporary Art of the Vatican Museums

She has been directing the institution for 21 years.

Remembering Carlo Cardazzo

In Venice, Milan and Rome the exhibitions of the most important art of the second half of the 20th century

“With reference to your letter of 9 November, I would like to inform you that Sir Cardazzo is still not in Italy... I can only suggest that you await his return to Naviglio.

Rome • At Villa Borghese the fake archaeological finds of Damien Hirst

Obsessions, obvious theatricality, fake underwater debris confirm the artificial character of his aesthetics

Public authorities greet Damien Hirst’s exhibition “Archaeology Now” at the Galleria Borghese as a sign and stimulus of a “new Italian renaissance” - the fifth in the last five or six years, if I’m correct.

Barcelona • At MACBA an exhibition to reflect on the poetics of Gonzalez-Torres

Arrived in New York in 1979, the Cuban artist is the witness of a generation fighting against all taboos

Forty years ago it was the Aids virus that dominated, triggering fear and loneliness, but it seemed that it was destined only for homosexuals and borderline people. Even if this was not the case, for a long time the expiatory categories, between governmental indifference and respectability.