What is art? Blessed Tolstoy who had the ready and certain answer: that which comes from the people. I, on the other hand, while working for two or three decades as an art critic, find myself like Augustine about time. If no one asks him, he knows, w...
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Over the past two decades, war has become a frequent and silently accepted circumstance in the West - although formally deprecated in words, both by citizens and the political class of various countries - all the more so in cases where it is not visi...
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What does it mean to talk about art as the world collapses, as the chronicle is reduced to an inventory of bodies? The question returns compulsively every time the world seems to be crumbling, every time the images of the present pile up like ruins a...
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One can rejoice in reading the article that Gian Maria Tosatti wrote about ten days ago for the Domenicale of Il Sole 24 Ore, and to draw a happy hope in noting that even Tosatti, though firm in his twentieth-century idea of hegemonic debate, seems t...
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Italian Council represents one of the few, if not the only one on an annual basis and for the past ten years, ministerial level activities to support and promote Italian artists. It is often lamented in our sector that artists are not considered or s...
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In spite of all the hype, in spite of all the celebrations, and in spite of an exhibition that should have established a milestone, the question of the SpanishEcce Homo given to Caravaggio appears far from settled. If the major exhibition at Palazzo ...
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"Art must disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed," stated CésarCruz. But what happens when it is preciselyart that is inconvenient to those in cultural or political power? And when awork is removed, erased, obscured, can we still s...
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Let us start with an observation: in a country where there is a democratic system that is not yet on the road to authoritarian drifts (which I think Italy is) and where newspapers work, a minister can hardly claim nonexistent appropriations. Clearly,...
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In the complex circuit of contemporary art fairs and exhibitions that follow one another undaunted in the national and international territory, you always find suggestive works of hyper-conceptual art that confront the viewer with his atavistic disco...
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From August 29-31 in theRomagna Apennines, the Festival of Recovery Times was held. The only event in Italy focused on circular cooking, integral use of raw materials and awareness. A conceptual and artistic attitude even before that in giving food f...
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Scrolling through Instagram or Tik Tok, one notices a trend that is now rampant: that of wanting to simplify, to make everything easier, even studying: in fact, there are many content creators who have devoted themselves to simplifying school subject...
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Some careers seem designed by design: not because of lack of talent, but because of the lucidity with which everything happens. The debut at the right time, the right look, the right technique, the right face. And then, of course, the right connectio...
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In the period from 2017 to 2024, Italian Council supported numerous projects and initiatives, contributing to the production of new works by Italian artists, the expansion of public collections, and international participation. The resources allocate...
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June 12, 2025. I wake up, at 3 a.m., to the sound of a siren. In Tel Aviv, where I live, we are used to it. Since 2007 now: ever since Hamas imposed its regime on the civilian population in Gaza and made Israeli cities systematic targets of their att...
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For the past eight years there has existed in the United States a group of political scientists of all orientations, about 500 in all, that has been tightly monitoring the resilience of all democratic practices in the country to assess their resilien...
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Luca Rossi's recent article on the drift of "superstar curators" raised a topic of great interest. According to Luca Rossi, "curators have become stars and have overshadowed the works and the artists. The great exhibitions, such as the Biennales and ...
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