This article was not written by ChatGPT, but with ChatGPT. In the sense that I interviewed ChatGPT, literally. Another small premise: I work in the cultural field and write, by trade, texts of a different nature. And yes, I use ChatGPT often. To proo...
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Yes, there are, Italian artists: they are the ones helped and trained in Italy and who have been taking Italian Council grant funding for more than 10 years. And we also have their mentors who, with pats on the back and useless power plays, help them...
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Since the issue of the Russian presence at the Venice Biennale has become common knowledge, the social pages of newspapers and art magazines, including the one I direct, have become a receptacle for amiable quips about the freedom of art (to which, f...
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Call me nostalgic, but I remain of the opinion that the Italian Pavilion should be, as it once was, at the Giardini, and not at the Arsenale, as the first view for entry to the event. Call me a nationalist if what I think is that, as is the case else...
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Of course, the first reaction at the end of the Venice Biennale press conference In minor keys, in a warm (and loud) voice, was surprise: "Not even an Italian artist!" But almost simultaneously, in a low voice (having reflected just enough to catch o...
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We could hardly have imagined, even a couple of weeks ago, that we would be forced to see a Venice Biennale this year that reopens its doors to Russia. A legitimization, a rehabilitation in all respects. Let's start immediately with an observation: t...
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I reached out via Instagram to Rory Tsapayi, a member of the Venice Biennale curatorial team who, since May 2025, has been overseeing the implementation of this year's international exhibition . After the death on May 10, 2025, of artistic director K...
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Perhaps the spirit of the Biennale is destined to change. The world in which we live has changed, the so-called "art system" is showing cracks that were once unsuspected, and the figures animating it-artists, critics, curators, public and private ins...
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I scroll through contrarian and self-defensive comments. Too much. I would like to disassociate myself a bit from the general mobilization. Undoubtedly, there has been a lack, on the curatorial side, of any cultural-diplomatic sensitivity or tact, an...
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It used to be an underground gesture, an illegal act, a visual urgency that broke into the urban fabric to contest, to disturb, to dialogue. Today, street art fills the pages of art magazines, is commissioned by public administrations, attracts touri...
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We live in an age when everything is photographed. Breakfast, sunsets, concerts, dogs, cats, plates of pasta. And it is absolutely normal thatart , too, enters this continuous flow of images. Yet, incredibly, right here we encounter the highest wall:...
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There is some lateral significance to be found in the fact that the Italian state has decided to invest nearly $15 million, or 12.5 million euros at today's exchange rate, to purchase Antonello da Messina'sEcce Homo that everyone, even those who have...
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In a measure signed by Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli, the Central Institute for Cultural Heritage Risk Management (ICRI), incardinated into the Department of Protection (DIT), was created. The garrison serves to give an ordinary structure to the ...
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I have been attending Arte Fiera Bologna since 2006. At the time I was a gallery assistant, beardless and without any experience, one of those who learn by snooping around, standing on the sidelines. I remember that first edition well: there was snow...
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Contemporary art, since its beginnings, has often made provocation one of its favorite tools. To provoke means to stir, to shake, to destabilize. To trigger a friction between the work and the viewer. To break aesthetic, moral, political customs. But...
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We are in Calabria, a land of millennia-old history and traditions, and in the footsteps of Mimmo Rotella, an artist of international prominence born in Catanzaro in 1918. His creative "genius," recognized among the most extraordinary minds on the co...
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