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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What we call the "Instagrammable exhibition" is not just a phenomenon related to compulsive photography, but it is an entire curatorial mode that has learned to subtract every obstacle from immediate recognition. And it is enough to enter it to notic...
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On the black cube that has begun to batter the buildings of the Vespucci embankment in Florence since this summer, the only clarifications, for the moment, should be asked of the Soprintendenza: it will be necessary to know why, at least for the mome...
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It happened again. The co-curators of the upcoming Documenta have been unveiled, after the chief curator Naomi Beckwith from the Guggenheim Museum in New York was announced last December. Once again, as has been the case for many years now, we are wi...
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The user-generated Internet has produced one of the most unique cultural paradoxes of our time: the decline of professional reviews in the face of the rampant pervasiveness of amateur reviews, rendered on any product or service that can be purchased ...
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A definition of the scope of the Italian Council cannot be separated from an analysis of the context in which it fits. If, in fact, any activity in favor of the visibility of contemporary Italian art abroad is certainly welcome, it is also true that ...
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I have a hard time believing that the Basket of Fruit on Caravaggio is innocent, especially if its supposed clarity should stand out by contrast when looking at it together with Jago's Basket of Arms that the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan has been d...
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The Italian Council is currently Italy's main public instrument for supporting contemporary creativity in the visual arts. It has certainly contributed substantially to bridging a gap in the contemporary art system in Italy with others globally. Perf...
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Meanwhile, let's avoid calling them immersive "exhibitions." Federica Schneck says, rightly, that "they pass themselves off as exhibitions when they are shows." What we call "immersive exhibitions," of exhibitions have nothing. One can remain even on...
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I respond to the article The disaster of immersive shows with the utmost respect for journalist Federica Schneck. Not least because, I admit: the 'culprit' is me-one of those who thinks about and makes immersive shows. I liked the article. The title,...
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