Interviews

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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Odessa, Ukraine scholar: "They want to wear us down. But we resist, also thanks to art."

The city of Odessa has not remained on the sidelines of the war that Russia has unleashed against Ukraine, quite the contrary: the city overlooking the Black Sea is under constant attack with drones with which the invaders are trying to wear down the...
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An inexhaustible experimenter. Interview with photographer Nino Migliori

Born in 1926, Nino Migliori is one of the most incisive voices of Italian photography. With or without a camera, through analog or digital means, from the 1950s to the present, he has developed projects that transcend the traditional classification o...
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An artist does not know everything about his work. The conceptual photography of Pierluigi Fresia

Pierluigi Fresia (Asti, 1962) lives and works in Pino Torinese (Turin). His artistic research, always traceable to the conceptual sphere, is developed through different media - from painting to video, from photography to the use of words - often comb...
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The challenge of investing in culture in the heart of Sicily: talks Salvatore La Spina, mayor of Centuripe

On Saturday, June 21, two important openings took place in Centuripe, a small inland Sicilian town perched on a hill between Enna and Catania. The first, the exhibition Futurism and Sicilian Futurists, set up at the Antiquarium Exhibition Center and ...
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"The performer is an actress living a truth": interview with Giulia Perelli

What does it mean to be a performer? We talk about it with Giulia Perelli (Lucca, 1985), actress, author, performer and visual artist. Trained between Rome and Belgium, she works in Europe, Asia and the Americas, alternating between personal projects...
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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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