Interviews

Rosario Anzalone, director museums Lombardy: "with autonomy, for regional museums more funzuonal management"

The review dedicated to the new Regional Directorates National Museums endowed with financial autonomy reaches its last stage in Lombardy, to grasp further steps and reasons that have presided over this umpteenth reform in the long process of reorgan...
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Interview with Roberto Bolle and Mauro Bigonzetti: "This is why we brought Caravaggio to the theater."

In May, choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti's ballet Caravaggio was presented for the first time in Italy, seventeen years after its debut in 2008 in Berlin. It fell to étoile Roberto Bolle to interpret Caravaggio, who took the show on stage at the...
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GNAM Archives closed from July 2024, former director speaks: "Huge damage to research and art"

Since July 2024, the library of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, defined by the gallery itself as "an indispensable place for those who wish to research and study the creative work of artists," has been closed to the publi...
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Elisabetta Sirani, a successful painter in 17th-century Bologna. Told by those who studied her

Those who wanted to make a biopic dedicated to Elisabetta Sirani would have at their disposal all the factors useful for the success of a film: the figure of an independent, cultured woman determined to pursue an extraordinary success, which indeed c...
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Andrea Bruciati (Ville di Tivoli): "I wanted to awaken two sleeping beauties."

Andrea Bruciati's tenure at the helm of the Villae, the autonomous institute of the Ministry of Culture that brings together the sites pertaining to Villa Adriana and Villa d'Este, ended a few days ago. An art historian and contemporaryist, Bruciati ...
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Filippo Masino (director Piedmont Museums): how to grow "serial" autonomous museums

In the new installment of the survey devoted to the new Museum Directorates, which have broad decision-making powers and financial autonomy, we move to Piedmont. At the helm of the Royal Residences of Savoy and the Regional Directorate of National Mu...
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"In Italy today there are many good artists, but the champion is missing." Giordano Raffaelli speaks

Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, a historic contemporary art gallery in Trento, recently turned 40 years old: it was founded in 1984 by Giordano Raffaelli, who still leads the gallery that has become over time an important point of reference for art lovers, ...
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What good is a museum if it is not a "qualified cultural mediator"? Roberto Ferrari (Museo Galileo) speaks

Florence's Museo Galileo, founded on May 7, 1925, as the Institute of the History of Science, is 100 years old this year, and several initiatives are planned to mark the centennial. We took the opportunity to speak with director Roberto Ferrari (Taor...
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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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