Heritage - Finestre sull'Arte

Do state museums really not know how to organize important exhibitions anymore?

In Italy there existed a sort of golden age of exhibitions, full of events of international scope and the result of prestigious collaborations and full-bodied loan campaigns, which today is inexorably over, the accomplice of an autarchy into which ou...
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Spotlight Inquiry. Autonomous museums: let's take stock almost ten years after the reform

The contracts of 14 super-directors of museums and archaeological sites with special autonomy will soon expire. Among others, in September it will be the turn of Paolo Giulierini, head of the MANN, National Archaeological Museum of Naples; in October...
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Luigi Abete: we should not be afraid of private enterprises in culture

Cultural assets managed by public entities, private entities managing publicly owned cultural assets: the dichotomy between public and private in the management of cultural assets in Italy has given rise to a long-standing debate in which ideological...
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Mattia Morandi (MiC press office): Here's how the ministry became social and communicative

Mattia Morandi, head of the Ministry of Culture's Press and Communications Office since 2014 (except for the interlude during the Conte I government), is the main architect of the ministry's social and digital transformation. Under his impetus, major...
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Ten urgent priorities for the next minister of culture

CulturalItaly has emerged devastated from two years of pandemic. This is not a statement tinged with sensationalism: there are data certifying all the serious difficulties the sector is going through. Federculture's latest report released worrying d...
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Restoration, conservation and protection of artistic heritage. A conversation with Giovanni Urbani

The aspect of Giovanni Urbani that most continues to strike me, his former student at the Central Institute for Restoration (icr), is that of the admittedly singular and certainly not happy fate of being a "great outsider." A condition that led him t...
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When contemporary art invades ancient spaces

Anyone visiting the Doge's Palace in Venice until next Oct. 29 will not find in the Sala dello Scrutinio the works of Tintoretto, Andrea Vicentino, Pietro Liberi, Palma the Younger and the others who painted the splendors of the Serenissima on the la...
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Carrara: the Marble Museum, Fossacava, archaeological materials and their management

Established in 1982, the Museo Civico del Marmo is the first public museum to arise in Carrara. Conceived and created by the writer on behalf of the Municipality of Carrara (G.C. Resolution No. 582, 8.4.1982), it was set up as a "progressive"...
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