If one were to go by the headlines, it would seem there are no major doubts regarding the authenticity of the *Portrait of a Young Man*, which was presented with some grand ceremony in the halls of the Ducal Palace in Urbino—which are under the juris...
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The recent finding by the Court of Auditors against the former director of the State Archives of Naples, Candida Carrino, which calls on her to compensate for a loss to the public treasury of 613,000 euros, which represents lost revenue resulting fro...
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Criticism of performance art has a fundamental problem: it continues to conceive of the body as if it were Cartesianly separated from the mind. For decades, bodily actions have been interpreted alternately as conceptual exercises—in which the mind us...
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The news making the rounds these days is that IKEA, the low-cost furniture giant, has created a line of artwork to be sold in its stores. Back in 2009, I had already coined the term “Evolved IKEA” to describe a whole series of artworks th...
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A tiny, probably long-forgotten anecdote: a few years ago, the town where I live was abruptly roused from its usual lethargy by a study that the regional government had commissioned from an engineer, a university professor, who had been asked to devi...
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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. This transformation is taking place not only in digital labs or at technolo...
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The Strait of Messina is unique in the world for its beauty and natural richness; it clearly surpasses the Bosphorus in quality of life, the Strait of Istanbul—which connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, is heavily trafficked, and unsuitable ...
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Until not too long ago, an exhibition didn’t need to justify itself. The works were there, and it was enough simply to look at them. The curator could intervene, of course, but his or her mediation was optional, not structural. There was not yet that...
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There is no “Messina case”; it is not “a Southern issue,” as stated by Claudio Strinati, president of the Higher Council for Cultural and Environmental Heritage. But it is indeed a Sicilian issue. The security system at the Na...
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I’ve been urged to write a commentary on the theft of Antonello da Messina’s paintings, yet whichever path one takes, it can only lead to some sort of rhetorical conclusion—especially now that everyone has already donned the customary mou...
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Let’s set aside the reason why, twenty-four years after we started paying for ice cream with copper coins instead of bills bearing the image of Marconi or Montessori, the ECB has decided that the design of the euro must be changed, and that it ...
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There is a verb that the art world often uses and that is worth analyzing before anything else: to challenge. Artworks challenge the viewer. Artists challenge boundaries. Exhibitions challenge conventions. It’s a combative verb, and it’s not chosen a...
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It sometimes happens that our dormant art criticism stirs from its slumber and suddenly reasserts its right to exist, especially when there’s no risk involved and it merely seeks the approval of its peers: this time, the miracle of collective m...
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There is a silent force driving contemporary art—an impulse that goes beyond form, beyond provocation, beyond social commentary—and that seeks to touch upon something that lies beyond the visible, beyond the everyday, beyond the mere image. This “som...
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There is a man with a deep voice singing by the fire. He is not telling a story; he is passing it down. Song precedes the image; memory precedes cinema—and we have already said this.The Odyssey has been a voice that has traversed the centuries, entru...
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The contemporary art market of the last twenty years is based on a huge lie. This is demonstrated by an obvious fact: many of the leading so-called contemporary art galleries must sell modern art—roughly from the time of Van Gogh through the 1970s—in...
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