Politics and cultural heritage - Finestre sull'Arte

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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Agreement between ministry and ICCROM: guaranteed the institution temporary headquarters in Rome

ICCROM, the International Center for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, one of the top intergovernmental organizations dedicated to the protection of cultural heritage, has secured temporary headquarters in Rome thank...
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There are hundreds of paintings in temporary storage at Montecitorio for a hundred years

That the storerooms of museums and superintendencies are treasure chests is, all things considered, a well-known fact. That Palazzo Montecitorio, where the Chamber of Deputies is housed, is crammed with works of art is, all things considered, equally...
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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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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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