Vittoria Benzine

New York

Contributing Writer at Whitehot Magazine

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Articles

Rémy Martin Enlists Famed Artist Anish Kapoor For Special Edition Cognac Bottle

2 weeks 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.
Is Kenny Schachter ‘Punching Up’?

3 weeks 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.
San Diego-based multidisciplinary artist C Fodoreanu grew up along the road there

4 weeks ago | whitehotmagazine.com | Vittoria Benzine

By VITTORIA BENZINE April 18. 2025Every summer, many thousands of Orthodox Christians set out for Transylvania’s Nicula Monastery, which houses the wonder-working Madonna of Nicula, an icon that wept for a month in 1669, as legend has it. San Diego-based multidisciplinary artist C Fodoreanu grew up along the road there.
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

2 months 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

Jan 27, 2025 | 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.