Who is Leonardo Bison

Qatar and beyond. How do you get a Pavilion at the Venice Biennale?

Qatar will have its own permanent pavilion at the Giardini of the Venice Biennale: it will be centrally located, straddling Finland's pavilion, Denmark's central pavilion, and Stirling's book pavilion. He announced this on February 12, in a statement...
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Assault on Culture Decree: League proposes amendment weakening superintendencies

Due to arrive next Monday, Feb. 3, in the House chamber is the "culture" decree law, approved by the Council of Ministers on Dec. 23."The Decree approved today is a first step to respond to the needs of the culture value chain and to give a perspecti...
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The other side of the futurism exhibition: GNAM emptied, library and archives closed

The current exhibition at Gnam, or Gnam/c, in Rome, Il Tempo del Futurismo, is probably the most talked about temporary exhibition in Italy in recent decades, and it is unlikely to be surpassed soon. It was talked about at the time of the announceme...
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How Italy's autonomous museums fared in 2023

Comprehensive statistical data on state museum institutions in the year 2023 were released in November. Beyond the generic releases issued already months ago (visitors are growing, by a little, and receipts are growing by a lot, thanks in part toincr...
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Has the Carrara Academy in Bergamo become unmanageable?

Even the most attentive observers of the museum and art world are struggling to follow the events surrounding Bergamo's Accademia Carrara, an institution founded in 1781 at the behest of Giacomo Carrara, which became a civic museum in 1958 and a publ...
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A Picasso rediscovered in Pompeii? What are the still unsolved doubts

On Sept. 30, as usually happens when faced with proposed attributions with a rocambolic history behind them, a good part of the Italian media reported the news of a rediscovered Picasso, recognized as such after decades in which it had remained on di...
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The Lion of St. Mark was a Chinese monster: what are the implications of the Venetian discovery

La news is so surprising and unsettling that, a week after the announcement (which took place June 11 an international conference in Venice) the world of historians and art historians still kept comments to a minimum. The statue of the lion of St. Ma...
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Zuchtriegel surprisingly reopens debate on Pompeii's eruption! August or October?

In a post on his socials on August 24, Pompeii Archaeological Park director Gabriel Zuchtriegel recalled theeruption of Vesuvius on August 24, 79 A .D ."On August 24, 79 A.D., the eruption of Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum," Zuchtriegel r...
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