Interviews

Alessandra Di Castro (Apollo Group), "Need art-related tax reform: Italy deserves a different future"

Alessandra Di Castro, an antiquarian with a long and relevant experience, has been chairing since 2024, and until 2026, the Apollo Group, which represents the art industry in Italy and brings together antiquarians, art dealers, galleries of ancient, ...
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Here's how Venetian museums showcase their 20th-century treasures. Interview with Elisabetta Barisoni

After more than a decade spent as a curator at Mart in Rovereto, in 2015 Elizabeth Barisoni found a home at Muve - Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, becoming already the following year responsible for the organizational management of the Internatio...
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In the world of Fausto Gilberti: little men who tell about great artists, rock stars, legends and more

Fausto Gilberti (Brescia, 1970) is a painter and draftsman, one of the most appreciated on the contemporary Italian scene, as well as an author of children's books, which he writes and illustrates. Gilberti studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts a...
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"Home is a place we build to make our happiness possible." Interview with Massimo Baldini

A new space dedicated to contemporary culture, THEIA Gallery, will open in Ancona: it is a "home gallery," or a home that will also be used as an exhibition space that can be visited by the public. From April 12 to May 4, 2025 THEIA will open for the...
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La Contesa on Picasso: Rachele Ferrario tells the story of Fernanda Wittgens and Palma Bucarelli

There are essays that read like novels because they deal with facts, characters and issues that arouse interest and curiosity even in a lay audience. Credit is due to the writer, who is skillful in leading the reader to discover the protagonists of s...
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Michele Chiossi's Zigzag Europe: "a work that invites new forms of union"

Resulting from a meeting in 2022 between artist Michele Chiossi (Lucca, 1970), Neapolitan gallery owner Andrea Nuovo and art historian Fernanda García Marins, a Neapolitan by adoption, the solo exhibition Prolegomeni brings 17 works to the Nea...
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"Ministry's challenge? Growing smaller museums." Alessandra Guerrini (Museums Liguria) speaks.

"The challenge is to grow the smaller museums, to make them the hubs on the territories of the National Museum System." This, according to Alessandra Guerrini, head of the new Regional Directorate National Museums Liguria, is the main goal of the lat...
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"Here Are New Discoveries on Guido Reni and Bolognese Painting." Interview with scholar Giulia Iseppi

The recent exhibition on Guido Reni at the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna(La favola di Atalanta. Guido Reni e i poeti, which ended last Feb. 16) introduced important new information on the Bolognese artist and, in general, on the artistic environmen...
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"The new autonomy of regional museums will change everything." Filippo Demma (director of Basilicata Museums) speaks.

"It will change the world. The enormous transformations of recent years that have taken place in autonomous museums, which are there for all to see, will surely be extended to the new autonomous regional directorates, with all the advantages associat...
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Are they closing the Leonardo3 Museum to put a restaurant in its place? Director speaks

The Leonardo3 Museum in Milan risks closure: this is the possible effect of a bureaucratic-administrative dispute over the space in which the facility is located, which has been dragging on since 2023 and has already reached the Lombardy Regional Adm...
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Interview with Giulio Candussio: "Mosaic is a crucible where matter, light, color and space come together."

Born in Paularo, in the province of Udine, in 1945, Julius Candussio is internationally recognized for his mastery of mosaic art. His training began at the prestigious Scuola Mosaicisti del Friuli in Spilimbergo, an institute that has promoted the st...
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Regional museums, "the real problem today is planning." Valentina Uras (Museums Sardinia) speaks.

The survey of the new Regional National Museums Directorates, introduced by the latest reorganization of the Ministry of Culture, after the launch with Calabria continues with Sardinia, among the 7 that remain independent, along with Campania, Lazio,...
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"A work of art is an apparition, a staging." Conversation with Concetta Modica

Concetta Modica was born in Modica, lives in Milan, works and studies on the present and its paradoxes, in particular the concept of the contemporary epic: the present as what remains of something, as a relationship with other artists, with matter, ...
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Giacinto Cerone, free and independent sculptor: interview with curator Marco Tonelli

From January 18 to April 27, 2025, the exhibition Giacinto Cerone is on view at the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza. The Necessary Angel, an anthological exhibition dedicated to Giacinto Cerone (Melfi, 1957 - Rome, 2004), a singular sc...
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A forest of construction sites: how the Ducal Palace in Mantua will become. Director Stefano L'Occaso speaks.

For the past few months Stephen L'Occaso has been reappointed as director of the Ducal Palace in Mantua, a vast complex that since 2021 has seen the opening of numerous construction sites aimed at seismic improvement and structural restoration: some ...
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What the press office of Italy's best 2024 exhibition does. Interview with Marco Ferri

The exhibition on Federico Barocci at the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino (Federico Barocci Urbino. The Excitement of Modern Painting, June 20 to October 6, 2024, here our review), curated by Luigi Gallo and Anna Maria Ambrosini Massari wit...
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