Politics and cultural heritage - Finestre sull'Arte

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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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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Here's how Trump would like the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2026: ban published

Make America Great Again... also at the Venice Biennale. Will the next U.S. Pavilion at the 2026 Art Biennale be a celebration of Trump's America? It's likely, given the guidelines just issued by the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational andC...
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Ancient art for contemporary art exhibitions: better originals or will copies suffice?

It opened on Feb. 13 and will close in a few days, on May 11, in the Farnesian Uccelliere on the Palatine, managed by the Colosseum Archaeological Park, the exhibition"Brancusi: Sculpting Flight," a small selection of works by the Romanian artist, na...
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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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Ministry export offices: should they be made "autonomous"?

It has already been amply clarified and repeated how the Renzi-Franceschini reform of 2015 has distorted the technical-scientific imprint of the ministry imagined by Giovanni Spadolini-valued and kept alive in Florence until the presence in service o...
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If a general manager Museums of the Ministry writes a manual of the good public manager

Hard to make comparisons. A publication like Antonio Lampis's Handbook of the Good Manager and Good Civil Servant (Editrice Bibliografica, 2024) you would expect at the end of your career. A sort of "handover" in a semi-serious key, intended for new ...
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Minister Giuli's Olivetti Plan becomes law: here are all the measures

Minister Alexander Giuli's DL Cultura , passed last December, becomes law : it is the measure that contains his "Olivetti Plan for Culture," a program of interventions aimed at fostering the development of culture "as an accessible and integrated com...
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