Vittoria Benzine

1 month ago | maxim.com | Vittoria Benzine

The soccer superstar’s favorite sporting moment will be revealed by Turkish artist Refik Anadol’s abstract digital artwork in June. Argentinian soccer icon Lionel Messi is putting an end to the debate this week, declaring once and for all his favorite of the 800-plus goals he’s scored these past 22 years for club teams FC Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain, or Inter Miami CF—and, of course, Argentina’s national team.

1 month ago | fadmagazine.com | Vittoria Benzine

Sunlight finally peeked out on Manhattan this Thursday evening, just as a line started wrapping around Chelsea Industrial, on West 28th Street—artists, fans, collectors, and Andres Serrano, all queuing for a first look at Focus Art Fair, “the only NYC fair dedicated to the intersection of tech-enabled and traditional art.” Inside, 52 exhibitors from over 10 countries explore this year’s curatorial theme, “Human Creativity vs. Machine Potential,” with an eye for East Asian artists.

1 month ago | fadmagazine.com | Vittoria Benzine

It’s been over a year now and I’m sick of talking about the down market! But the only quote I overheard at Frieze worth recording was from a blond girl wearing one of those generic olive-green suit jacket and shorts sets asking her friends, “this is what a bad market looks like?”Baby girl, don’t you know? It’s all smoke and mirrors. Never mind the recent numbers sparking dialogue that sales are only down in the blue chip department.

2 months ago | maxim.com | Vittoria Benzine

The artist behind Chicago’s famed bean sculpture created a striking decanter for the French Cognac house. France’s leading Cognac company has teamed up with the world’s richest Indian artist. Over the past 40 years, Anish Kapoor has dreamt up Chicago’s iconic bean sculpture, installed a paint-blasting cannon in Vienna, and gained rights to the blackest paint ever.

2 months ago | fadmagazine.com | Vittoria Benzine

When you’re a young woman in the big city service industry, clients are just dying to know what you’d rather be doing. I’d tell them I moonlit as an art writer. “Are you a critic?” they’d often ask. “God I hope not,” I’d respond, having deemed negative reviews futile around that time, six years ago. Alas, artists are blameless, and platforming anything ultimately fans its fire—even if by now it doesn’t look like taking the high road works, either. I was bright eyed at my first fairs in 2022.