If we relate three recent works by three Italian artists, we can understand what a completely uncritical system has produced over the past two decades: the usual Luna Park lights that Marinella Senatore presented at Art Basel Unlimited, Francesco Are...
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I would like to respond to the director of the National Galleries of Ancient Art in Rome, Thomas Clement Salomon, who in a long, dense and interesting interview with Pietro Di Loreto on About Art Online responds to the considerations I had made in my...
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I found myself recently reflecting on how much the tormented souls of certain artists still exert a certain fascination after centuries, often to a greater degree than those artists whose art expresses perfection. And on how much this fascination is ...
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Good for Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli to take a stand against Russian conductor Valerij Gergiev's performance at the Reggia di Caserta, and good for the European Commission to remind us that EU Culture Commissioner Glenn Micallef "has repeatedly...
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There is what literary critic Charles Russell called the "binary tradition" of the twentieth century: avant-garde and modernism. The former is driven by an unshakeable belief in the progressive reunification between society and the artist (he speaks ...
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One of the reasons why it is increasingly difficult to find negative reviews or critiques of any cultural product is the fear of consequences, of possible retaliation. The sampling is vast: one can start with reactions of lesser intensity, such as cr...
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In the last decade, studies aimed at rereading the historical and critical work of Roberto Longhi have been several. A sign that Longhi has entered the phase of the historical process that will have to establish or not his definitive canonization. An...
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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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