Interviews

"Cavallino-Treporti is a model of tourist reception and quality of life." The mayor speaks

Roberta Nesto, a lawyer and freelancer, has solid experience in civil law. In 2020 she became the first mayor of the municipality of Cavallino-Treporti to win re-election for a second term. During her administration the area has strengthened its role...
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A new biography of the Painter-Heroine Elisabetta Sirani. Interview with Adelina Modesti

Adelina Modesti has published her second monograph in English on the artist, Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665), a virtuosa of early modern Bologna. At the heart of Modesti’s study is the life and work of a painter and printmaker who, raised in her ...
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"Color is a door that opens to the unconscious." Conversation with Rolando Tessadri

Rolando Tessadri was born in Mezzolombardo (Trento) in 1968. An analytical painter, known for his "textures" where the main element is the module an orthogonal grid obtained through the frottage technique, he stands out for his meticulous, minimalist...
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At the origin of the Rome Quadrennial: interview with Walter Guadagnini

It is the intuition and merit of the late President of the Quadriennale di Roma, Luca Beatrice, to have wanted to add a historical postilla to this otherwise very young 18th edition that has just opened, with the exhibition I giovani e i maestri: la ...
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This is what the new layout of Siena's Pinacoteca Nazionale will look like: Marco Magni talks

At the Siena National Picture Gallery, work has begun on energy efficiency and the removal of architectural barriers that will last until June 2026, an opportunity, along with the movement of works, to rethink the museum's new layout in order to brin...
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Africa in Piedmont: the treasure of collector Ettore Brezzo

Ettore Brezzo, originally from Giaveno (Turin) and graduated as an industrial expert, has always combined the concreteness of his work with a poetic sensibility and inexhaustible curiosity. His professional life has taken him several times to African...
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"If art has no value for our lives, we can bury it!" Luca Rossi speaks

Luca Rossi is an art collective and critic who has been lashing out at the contemporary art world, live and online, since 2009, with targeted actions, artworks that have often focused on highly topical issues (e.g., infodemics, the constant flow of i...
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Exclusive interview with Nicolas Bourriaud: "Relational art is still alive." Soon an exhibition at MAXXI

In Rome, an overture to the new art season slightly impatient but positive with the capital's first exhibition event at the Basement gallery of art magazine Cura founders Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin, who kicked off Sept. 10, 2025, the first edit...
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Calabria, Mileto reborn with its Park and Museum: the new face of Calabrian history

A new air is blowing in Miletus. A ferment of ideas is felt strongly, combined with enthusiasm of spirit and an urgency for concrete reorganization. The opportunity to have proof of this has arisen thanks to the growing interest shown in it with resp...
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For those who don't understand a cube: long interview with Eike Schmidt on the former Municipal Theater

It is the case that has stirred up discussion throughout Florence and beyond: the building that has taken the place of the former Municipal Theater, for which there has been an almost unanimous outcry because of the profile that greatly impacts the n...
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"Businesses must also create value by saving culture": the vision of AgriEuro, an agricultural machinery company

AgriEuro is an agricultural machinery company in Spoleto that was born from the vision of Manlio Settimi, an entrepreneur who opened a farm and garden machinery store in the Umbrian city in the 1970s, soon to be recognized as a point of reference for...
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What does it mean to run a museum on an interim basis? Stefano L'Occaso recounts his experience in the Pilotta

Stephen L'Occaso, in addition to being director of Palazzo Ducale in Mantua, is also interim director, from January 2024, of the Complesso Monumentale della Pilotta in Parma: "for a stretch of this journey," he points out, "I was listed as a delegate...
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"Gravity is the soul of sculpture": interview with Alice Cattaneo

Sculpture, according to Alice Cattaneo, is a living organism, always poised between balance and collapse, between construction and disintegration, capable of transforming every gesture into a thought form and every tension into a poetic possibility. ...
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"My art? It's a wake-up call." Interview with artist Rachel Lee Hovnanian

Texas-born multidisciplinary artist Rachel Lee Hovnanian (Parkersburg, 1959) boldly explores the most pressing and often uncomfortable issues of contemporary life: from digital addiction to obsession with aesthetic perfection. His sculpture Poor Tedd...
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Verona, Maffei Palace turns 5 years old. Director speaks: "We have become a landmark."

Five years after the opening of Palazzo Maffei Casa Museo in Verona, director Vanessa Carlon tells us about the evolution of a project that was born from the passion of collector Luigi Carlon and has now become a landmark for culture in Verona. With ...
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Design and Olympics to tell Italy without clichés: the visual identity of Milan Cortina 2026

We are only a few months away from the start of the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, but the Olympics and Paralympics to be held in Italy, exactly 20 years after Turin 2006, already have their own well-defined identity that is ...
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