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Francesco Dama

Francesco Dama is a freelance art writer based in Rome, Italy.
He regularly writes for several print and online publications, and wastes most of his time on Instagram.

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The Sensual Politics of Jochen Klein

Avatar photo by Francesco Dama July 16, 2023July 14, 2023

In Klein’s work, the critical structure and the sheer pleasure of painting are inextricable.

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Guglielmo Castelli the Melancholic Painter

Avatar photo by Francesco Dama January 11, 2023January 12, 2023

The Italian artist speaks with Hyperallergic about his home city of Turin, the loneliness of his characters, and more.   

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The Lost New York of Larry Stanton

Avatar photo by Francesco Dama June 29, 2022June 29, 2022

Stanton, who died of AIDS complications in 1984, left behind an engaging body of work, a moving tribute to a bygone generation of creative minds.

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Remembering James Bidgood, a Pioneer of Gay Film

Avatar photo by Francesco Dama April 24, 2022April 22, 2022

I vividly remember the first time I saw James Bidgood’s underground film Pink Narcissus (1971): I was 15 and still in the closet.

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A Photographer’s Portrait of the Theater of the Streets

Avatar photo by Francesco Dama January 23, 2022January 28, 2022

A pioneer of street photography, Levitt worked in the most crowded and poorest neighborhoods of New York searching for the theater of everyday life.

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At Rome’s Quadriennale, Out With the Old and In With Historical Interventions

Avatar photo by Francesco Dama February 4, 2021February 3, 2021

Fuori proposes a reinterpretation of Italian visual arts from the 1960s to the present day, affording greater prominence to women and young artists.

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Remembering Patrick Cowley, Pioneer of Dance Music and Occasional Composer of Porn Soundtracks

Avatar photo by Francesco Dama February 12, 2020February 13, 2020

Melding psychedelia with disco at a fast tempo, Cowley helped refine a new music genre, “Hi-NRG,” which seemed ideal to enhance the hot and sweaty vibe of San Francisco’s gay clubs.

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In 1977, an Artist Married Her Male Alter-Ego to Challenge Chauvinism

Avatar photo by Francesco Dama December 5, 2019

For almost 50 years, Tomaso Binga has been tackling the numerous manifestations of patriarchy in Italian culture. At 88, she is a living legend in Rome’s cultural scene.

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Finding Beauty in the Mundane Landscapes of Northern Italy

Avatar photo by Francesco Dama September 3, 2019September 6, 2019

In Luigi Ghirri’s Colazione sull’Erba, previously unpublished images from the photographer’s archive present a sparsely populated world of placid tranquility.

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Reimagining Artworks as Actors and the Gallery as a Stage

Avatar photo by Francesco Dama September 13, 2018

For General Rehearsal, authors wrote scenes for fictional productions, selecting works of art instead of characters.

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A Film Probes the Legacy of BUTT Magazine

Avatar photo by Francesco Dama February 14, 2018February 14, 2018

At the beginning of the 2000s, Dutch publishers Gert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom started to edit BUTT with the aim to tackle the then mainstream gay aesthetic of perfectly groomed men with something dirtier, frank, and authentic.

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Lucio Fontana’s Surprising, Enveloping Installations

Avatar photo by Francesco Dama January 24, 2018

Among Fontana’s least-known works, the Spatial Environments feel like the pieces that can allow for a better understanding of the depth and breadth of the artist’s practice, which is too often solely associated with the famous cut-up paintings.

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