Vittoria Benzine

New York

Contributing Writer at Whitehot Magazine

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Articles

Lesley Bodzy "Levity and Depth"- Review

1 month ago | fadmagazine.com | Vittoria Benzine

This past Christmas, two high school friends and I convened to hike our old favorite trail along the Blue Ridge Mountains, for the first time in ten years. One of them told our group about a kid he works with in Vermont — a 23 year old who very clearly doesn’t yet realize he’s going to die. I mused aloud how interesting that phenomenon is. I distinctly remember transitioning into a person aware of their own mortality at 27. It’s kind of strange, still being able to recall life before.
New York gallery for Visionary art offers an inner journey in time for the vernal equinox

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Vittoria Benzine |Florence Hallett |Torey Akers |Sophia Kishkovsky

The psychedelic artists Alex and Allyson Grey regularly welcome worshippers to their Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (Cosm) in Wappingers Falls, New York for full moons and “Art Church”. But Cosm only unveils a new lineup of contemporary Visionary art in their Entheon museum’s All One gallery once a year.
Gwen Hollingsworth’s Enchanting Abstract Paintings Cast Visual Spells

2 months ago | artsy.net | Vittoria Benzine

Standing before an alluring, enigmatic abstraction by Gwen Hollingsworth is like happening upon an idyllic glade in a midnight forest. It might take a moment to make sense of what you’re seeing, but soon enough, the moonlight reveals you’ve found an enchanted place. Magic is a real medium for Hollingsworth, whose debut solo show, “Walking in Circles in the Night,” is on view at New York’s island gallery through February 15th.
Hundreds of tiny saintly statues unearthed in historic German square

Jan 8, 2025 | anglican.ink | Vittoria Benzine

Excavations at Berlin’s historic Molkenmarkt might be drawing to a close, but the sprawling site—which dates back to the German capital’s enigmatic origins—still has surprises in store. This week, authorities announced that they have found two mid-15th-century figurines depicting saints, plus a stash of nearly 200 reliquaries constructed to hold the bones of other venerated Christian figures.
Meet the Real Lempicka: A New Documentary Reveals the Art Deco Star’s Untold Origins

Dec 30, 2024 | news.artnet.com | Vittoria Benzine

This year has been Tamara de Lempicka’s year—and it’s far from over. Two thousand and twenty-five will see the New York debut of the new documentary, The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka & the Art of Survival, at the 34th Jewish Film Festival. Rather than focusing on fast women and fashionable parties, director Julie Rubio’s film, five years in the making, shares the harrowing realities behind Lempicka’s glamor magic.
Alexander the Great’s Most Pivotal Battlefield Has Finally Been Identified

Dec 27, 2024 | news.artnet.com | Vittoria Benzine

At long last, Turkish researchers have pinpointed the precise site of the Battle of Granicus, where Alexander the Great achieved his first monumental victory on the road to becoming history’s greatest military mind. Alexander the Great was crowned king of Macedon in October 336 B.C.E.. Over the following decade, he conquered an unparalleled territory that grew to span from Greece to northwestern India.
Love Letters Reveal the Passion and Turmoil of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz’s Fiery Affair | Artnet News

Dec 26, 2024 | news.artnet.com | Vittoria Benzine

Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe were not only exceptional artists, but prolific writers of love letters. The correspondence between these two spans 5,000 letters and 25,000 pages. Sometimes they wrote each other three times a day. Sometimes the letters measured 40 pages long. This great romantic archive was only made public in 2006—20 years after O’Keeffe’s death, and 60 years after Stieglitz’s—at the former artist’s behest.
Basquiat's Little-Known Alpine Period Explored in a New Show

Dec 24, 2024 | news.artnet.com | Vittoria Benzine

Basquiat. After astronomical auction prices and endless sneaker collaborations, the artist’s name most readily evokes SoHo streets and Palladium parties. For those truly in the know, though, that name can also elicit Engadin alpines. Hauser and Wirth’s latest St. Moritz exhibition “Jean-Michel Basquiat. Engadin” joins recent attempts to highlight Basquiats lesser-known periods in locales like Los Angeles and Modena.
Have Experts Cracked the True Purpose of Stonehenge?

Dec 24, 2024 | news.artnet.com | Vittoria Benzine

Crowds gather biannually to watch Stonehenge mark the longest and shortest days of the year. Last week, as the winter solstice struck, British researchers released new insight into the enigmatic monument’s potential purpose, concluding a momentous year of scholarship with one more revelation.
The Unknown Language on This Ancient Tablet Continues to Baffle Experts

Dec 21, 2024 | news.artnet.com | Vittoria Benzine

The world is home to approximately 7,111 known languages. New ones get discovered on occasion. Nevertheless, researchers in Georgia have been unable to attribute the script on a recently surfaced rock tablet to any of them. Even after intense analysis, the ancient language on the so-called Bashplemi tablet still evades researchers. Fishermen in Dmanisi, Georgia discovered the tablet in Lake Bashplemi in 2021. Its eight-by-nine-inch face features 60 characters, 39 of them unique, across seven lines.