A century after Alberto Burri was born, the Italian postwar artist is having a moment. Burri’s work seems to be everywhere this fall, from a major retrospective, “Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting ...

Alberto Burri’s land art masterpiece, Grande Cretto, which was 30 years in the making, was finally opened to the public in Sicily this past Saturday. Grande Cretto is a sprawling concrete landscape of ...

This major retrospective exhibition—the first in the United States in more than 35 years and the most comprehensive ever mounted—showcases the pioneering work of Italian artist Alberto Burri ...

Alberto Burri, “Grande cretto nero (Large Black Cretto)” (1977), acrylic and PVA on Celotex, 149.5 x 249.5 cm, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne/Centre de création industrielle, ...

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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York recently announced that it will host this October “Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting,” the Italian artist’s first retrospective in the U.S. since 1978.

NEW YORK — What Europeans — what the rest of the world, in fact — can’t bear about Americans is their naivete. To the extent that naivete is a function of innocence, and even of energy, it’s also, of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. The dry lake beds of Death Valley resemble the craquelure of ...

At a 1961 exhibition in Rome, the public was so disturbed by the sensuous physicality of the paintings of Alberto Burri (1915-1995) that the Department of Public Health was called in to make sure it ...

Burri turned to art after serving as a physician for the Italian Army in the Second World War and being interned in a P.O.W. camp in Texas. After early experiments with tar-shellacked canvases, he ...