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A TOUCH OF ART

From London to Rome and up to New York, art, fashion and photography meet and collide in a riot of expositions to discover on a cultural-artistic tour of
the world. A tour of creativity at 360 degrees, ranging from painting to photography, from the display of dresses to the sculptures of pop-artists. A journey
that starts from Italy and arrives in America. The Eternal City hosts at Macro “Roma Pop City 60-67” an exhibition of over one hundred works including
paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations, artist’s films and documentaries that feature the Rome of the early ‘60s transformed and revived by the visual
imagination of the so-called “popartisti” of the School of Piazza del Popolo, including Franco Angeli, Mario Ceroli and Nanni Balestrini. From the Roman
pop-art to the bold American graffitis of Jean-Michel Basquiat, on display until February 26, 2017 at the Mudec in Milan. From the early graffiti of the New
York subway to the latest most complex works, the retrospective traces the brief but intense artistic career of Basquiat, who with his immediate language has
been able to face themes of human and race identity, creating a bridge between the Western and the African culture surpassing the limits of folklore. A com-
pletely different atmosphere there in the lagoon, where the Ikona Gallery - Živa Kraus’s historical gallery in the Campo del Ghetto Nuovo in Venice - hosts
“Peggy Guggenheim in Photographs” retracing in twenty shots the life of the famous art patron, immortalized by the great interpreters of the twentieth cen-
tury as Berenice Abbott and Man Ray. It is dedicated instead to one of the greatest fashion photographers of all time, Helmut Newton, the exhibition “A Gun
for Hire Selection -Le fotografie per Blumarine 1993-1999” set in the frame of the Museums of Palazzo Pio in Carpi until next December 11, investigating
the advertising campaigns signed by the artist for the collections Blumarine from S/S 1993 to F/W 98/99. And they speak of fashion even overseas where the
exhibition “Proust’s Muse, The Countess Greffulhe” staged at the Museum at Fit in New York reveals the amazing wardrobe of the Countess muse of Proust,
displaying fifty outfits created for her by some of the biggest couturiers of the twentieth century, such as Worth, Babani and Fortuny. An art tour that can’t
avoid a stop at the Tate Modern in London, which recently reopened with the construction of the new pyramid-shape hall, the Switch House, signed Herzog
& De Meuron. For the occasion are on display camellias, petunias, poppies and solitary desert landscapes that inhabit the potent nature of the masterpieces
by Georgia O’Keeffe, between abstract art and photography as befits the original painter of the twentieth century.

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