Every year in Italy, there are countless exhibitions—in almost incalculable numbers. In each exhibition, there is almost always something interesting: an adventure, a comparison of works and styles, or even the chance to see how different curators ap...
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When snow covers a landscape, it seems to take away rather than add: it erases details, softens colors, alters distances, and makes it harder to distinguish what belongs to observation from what arises from perception. It is above all in this uncerta...
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A Venice defined by light, matter, and space takes center stage in the art market. It is *Concetto Spaziale, Mezzogiorno in Piazza S. Marco*, one of the most significant works from Lucio Fontana’s famous *Venezia* series, which on October 22 wi...
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What can painting still convey in an era dominated by the contemporary? This is one of the questions that run through the work of Carlo Maria Mariani (Rome, 1931–New York, 2021), an artist who made art history, memory, and culture the foundation of h...
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After Mark Rothko’s death, the critic Harold Rosenberg, a theorist of Action Painting, wrote an obituary for the painter in *The New Yorker*, in which he described him as a “reductive theologian of painting.” He intended that adject...
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In 1909, Francis Picabia (Paris, 1879–1953) was thirty years old and had already established a solid reputation within the art world. At that very moment, however, the artist decided to reevaluate the path he had taken up to that point: he sold...
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“Ispirazione Europa: Artistic Dialogues Between the 19th and 20th Centuries” is launching in Vicenza —a new exhibition project sponsored by the City of Vicenza that aims to explore, through art, the formation and evolution of the European spirit fro...
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Eight hundred years after the death of St. Francis of Assisi, Arezzo is celebrating its historical and spiritual bond with the patron saint of Italy through a major exhibition dedicated to the evolution of his image in art. Paintings, sculptures, min...
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