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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Art Basel, Frieze, ARCO. The big names of contemporary art fairs evoke an imagination of luxury, creativity and global connections. For many, they represent the beating heart of theart market: places where collectors, curators and enthusiasts meet to...
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It opened on Feb. 13 and will close in a few days, on May 11, in the Farnesian Uccelliere on the Palatine, managed by the Colosseum Archaeological Park, the exhibition"Brancusi: Sculpting Flight," a small selection of works by the Romanian artist, na...
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Meanwhile, what does the dpcm that decreed the five days of national mourning provide (totally unprecedented: in recent history, there had been no national mourning until John XXIII, then one day for Paul VI and John Paul I, and three days for John P...
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Asart pushes the extreme boundaries of society, a subtle and unsettling tension comes into play: are we witnessing an act of emancipation, a gesture that redefines dominant narratives, or are we observing the mutation of discomfort into an aesthetic ...
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The Italian Council, a project of the Ministry of Culture's General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity, has aimed to promote Italian contemporary art since 2017. Over the years, its mission has been renewed and expanded, managing to support and ...
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Let's start with the big picture: years of studies, exhibitions, books, articles, and various and sundry activities to couple all the stereotypes about Vincent van Gogh, to convey to the public the idea that the figure of Van Gogh was slightly more c...
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The general director of the Agrigento 2025 Foundation, Roberto Albergoni, resigned on March 25. He announced this through Repubblica, the newspaper that a few weeks earlier had broken the news that some of the planned events would be skipped-the foun...
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In Florence's Piazza della Signoria for about five centuries, every day of the year, a clothed woman has been about to cut off the head of a man, inert and asleep at her feet, whose head she holds by the hair. If a feminist movement had wanted to cho...
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The question to ask in order to evaluate the usefulness and effectiveness of the goals and initiatives implemented by the Italian Council is one: have they really contributed to increasing the presence of Italian artists in international museums and ...
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Problem: Given the indignant shrieks with which insiders have been accompanying the installation of Emanuele Giannelli's sculptures in front of the headquarters of the Region of Tuscany in Florence for days, the candidate should explain, possibly con...
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