It is rare for a measure affecting art to become the subject of wide public debate, just as it is rare for it to make its way into the topics of the day on social media: yet, the announcement of the5 percent VAT on works of art, the long-awaited and ...
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In December 1968, Italian cinemas screened the film 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time. A film in four chapters that chronicles an evolutionary leap in human consciousness and technological capability, set against the backdrop of an alien intel...
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In less than a month, the Caravaggio 2025 event exhibition at Palazzo Barberini will close its doors. But is it really "one of the most ambitious exhibition projects ever dedicated to the work of Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (1571-1610),"...
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The lack of an agile format dedicated to art has been felt for more than a decade on public television's generalist networks. It has been felt at least since the closure of Passepartout, Philippe Daverio's program that ran for about ten seasons and t...
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I remember well that hot afternoon when for the first time with Gianluca we went to see the Project room at MudaC. Upon crossing the threshold of the room, the first impression was very bad! The small room on the second floor was cluttered with chair...
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In the guarded silence of a museum, everything seems still. The works stand, motionless, like relics of another time. Visitors skim with their eyes, walk slowly, sometimes read, often photograph. But what happens when something breaks? When one of th...
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In recent years, contemporary art has seenan explosion of artistic works and practices that fit into the context of so-called woke culture. Issues such as social justice,gender equity , decolonization, and civil rights have become central to artistic...
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The conclusion of the Amerigo Vespucci's world tour offers a cue to recall that the Italian Navy's training ship, these days docked in Genoa, has also taken a number of works of art around the world over the past two years in order to "celebrate the ...
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We are receiving and publishing an open letter from CISDA - Committee of Eligible Art Historians of the competition inducted by the Ministry of Culture in 2022, which has as its theme the way art is communicated, especially on social media. The lette...
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I asked the artificial intelligence how money laundering related to the modern and contemporary art market works. In other words, how can it happen that money from illicit trafficking in drugs, weapons, or otherwise, or from the underworld, can be "w...
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The Italian Council has filled a historical gap in the Italian cultural scene, approaching models already established abroad and contributing significantly to narrowing the gap with European realities. Created also thanks to the Memorandum of Underst...
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What does art do in the face of the massacre that takes place before our eyes every day in the Gaza Strip? Manuela Gandini, art critic of the Turin newspaper and professor at NABA in Milan, asks this question in an article published the day before ye...
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Why it's almost impossible to find art criticism on social The social world, dominated by influencers and creators in all fields, is becoming less and less fertile ground for criticism: it's happening for art criticism, too. Here's why.
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Imagine entering acontemporary art gallery. White walls house works by artists from all corners of the world: paintings evoking postcolonial struggles, installations telling stories of gender and sexuality, sculptures celebrating indigenous tradition...
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The funniest aspect of the story of the mayor of Merano taking off her tricolor sash is actually, at least to my sensibilities, a curious side detail: in the videos of the celebrations broadcast by the local TV33, Mrs. Katharina Zeller can be seen in...
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Why is the public so prone to attack critics who oppose the trivialization of culture? Why should phenomena such as Alberto Angela or Edoardo Prati be considered unassailable? Why is it that those who insist on the superficiality, homogenization, and...
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