A painting crosses the ocean, changes continents, moves from one room to another, from one light to another. For a few months, it finds itself far from the place where it is normally kept, surrounded by other works, woven into a new narrative. Visito...
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But why does the Venice Biennale always disappoint us and include a series of random oddities that the outside world views with a mixture of amazement and disgust? The controversy between fan bases took center stage at the Russian Pavilion, but what ...
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There are words that always come at the most opportune moment, when an action has already caused a rift and the news begins to crack the orderly surface of the narrative. “Art” is one of these. It appears when the image is no longer enoug...
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To think of engaging the viewer in a performance where the medium is silent motionless by slowly raising her gaze toward him and thereby transmitting an energy that makes that space a temenos, a sacred enclosure: this is a rather primitive idea, whic...
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The whole story of the thirteenth-century Madonna by the Master of the Baptistery of Parma that ended up abroad has become, in my view, a textbook case of misinformation, based in this case on a curious mixture of the two typical elements of misinfor...
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The traditional image of the museum as a "temple of culture," distant and almost unchanging, is giving way to a profoundly different reality. Michele Lanzinger, founder of Trento's MUSE and its director from 2013 to 2024, as well as president of ICOM...
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The West's priorities vis-à-vis Russia are clear: whether it is gas or vodka tonic, such as the one served from the morning of the first day in the rediscovered national pavilion, we are always open to dialogue, as long as there is ice. The fa...
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The discussion that has arisen around the future of the Borghese Gallery has so far produced an exciting, uplifting laboratory of nothingness, and let it be said in a positive sense, since at the moment it is necessary to fret about everything that i...
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In the contemporary art market,artificial intelligence has become an integral part of how the market is structured, how works are created, bought, sold, and even interpreted. It is a transformation that is taking place not only in digital labs or tec...
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This text is a popular reworking of the keynote presented at the ICOM Italy national assembly and annual conference with the theme - Mediterranean Heritage: communities, alliances and horizons (Bari, April 17-19, 2026), an expanded version of which w...
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It may be the stark contrast with the blizzard of daylight hours, but it is with twilight that Venice takes on a charm that is unparalleled. Perhaps the true, unique work of art of every Biennale. Wandering around calle and campi in the evening is li...
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One can challenge anything to this Venice Biennale, except the success of Pietrangelo Buttafuoco's masterpiece of unintentional strategy, repaid by the most fragrant numbers the president could hope for: 10 thousand visitors during the first opening ...
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Every two years, Venice transforms into the gravitational center ofglobal contemporary art. The Biennale, with its kaleidoscope of national pavilions, collateral events and special projects, is an expected and celebrated ritual, but also a massive, a...
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Visibility-invisibility of Italian art outside Italy is the theme that most recurs in the discourses that have been made, at least since the last two decades, within the Italian art world. However, in my unassuming opinion, the real problem is not so...
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But is it the Venice Biennale or a circus? We had not yet finished reading the latest news about the arrival of the inspectors from the Ministry of Culture at Ca' Giustinian, when today comes the communiqué announcing the en bloc resignation of the j...
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In this same journal, I had occasion to read in a recent critical reflection that art in Italy in the 1980s would be reduced to five artists and a single movement (I quote verbatim: "theItaly of the 1980s, the Italy of the Transavanguardia"). One may...
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