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Agrigento 2025 is a disaster for now: the Italian capital of culture still in chaos

The general director of the Agrigento 2025 Foundation, Roberto Albergoni, resigned on March 25. He announced this through Repubblica, the newspaper that a few weeks earlier had broken the news that some of the planned events would be skipped-the foun...
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Florence, the work of Thomas J. Price? A trivial rehash: the interesting topic is another

In Florence's Piazza della Signoria for about five centuries, every day of the year, a clothed woman has been about to cut off the head of a man, inert and asleep at her feet, whose head she holds by the hair. If a feminist movement had wanted to cho...
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On the usefulness and effectiveness of the Italian Council.

The question to ask in order to evaluate the usefulness and effectiveness of the goals and initiatives implemented by the Italian Council is one: have they really contributed to increasing the presence of Italian artists in international museums and ...
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Florence, why is Giannelli no good and Price is?

Problem: Given the indignant shrieks with which insiders have been accompanying the installation of Emanuele Giannelli's sculptures in front of the headquarters of the Region of Tuscany in Florence for days, the candidate should explain, possibly con...
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Art and climate change: contribution or contradiction?

In December 2018, the South Bank esplanade in London was transformed into a scene of stark beauty. Blocks of ice, ripped from the heart of the Arctic, materialized among the buildings and lights of the city thanks to the artistic intervention of Olaf...
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Ministry export offices: should they be made "autonomous"?

It has already been amply clarified and repeated how the Renzi-Franceschini reform of 2015 has distorted the technical-scientific imprint of the ministry imagined by Giovanni Spadolini-valued and kept alive in Florence until the presence in service o...
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The art of non-places: how to give meaning to a space that doesn't have it

We live in an age where places, those defined as such, have become increasingly liquid, undefined. Geography, as we perceive it, has changed. Almost without realizing it, we have found ourselves immersed in spaces that are no longer tied to the histo...
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Has futurism in Rome made its way into the hearts of Italians? Perhaps not

Two more months of the Futurism exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art: the extension for the exhibition, which was supposed to end last Feb. 28, comes after the Ministry of Culture found it to be a success. For Minister Al...
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The Italian art market between legal challenges and opportunities

The Italian art market is faced with challenges involving both the regulatory framework and the need for renewal of a bureaucratic-administrative apparatus that, by its very nature, adapts with difficulty to the dynamics of a rapidly changing sector....
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The controversy against Giannelli and Lodola in Florence? Crocodile tears of insiders.

There is a lot of talk about some artworks deemed "not appropriate" and installed in the historic center of Florence, in the specific case of Emanuele Giannelli and Marco Lodola. It is rightly criticized that these works have plummeted from the sky w...
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The influence of social: how much does an artist count outside Instagram?

In a world increasingly dominated by image culture, Instagram has turned into one of the most powerful tools for contemporary artists. It is not just a platform for sharing one's work, but a true digital exhibition space, capable of connecting the ar...
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Reducing VAT on works: the art world's crocodile tears

The failure to decrease VAT is certainly a problem for the Italian art market, which is losing competitiveness with galleries from France, Germany and around the world. But this is not the pincer that suffocates the art market, especially if we think...
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Inside Michelangelo Pistoletto's resonance chamber.

There is an advertising poster from the 1980s, the advertisement for an American hairspray, in which Andy Warhol can be seen holding a spray can in his hands, albeit with a certain concentration: he is wearing his typical dark turtleneck, he is weari...
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Italy could be competitive in the international art market: here's how

Long times and bureaucratic uncertainties? Certainly yes: for example, the timeframe for obtaining a free circulation has lengthened, some offices devoted to export paperwork have been closed, and the parameters for defining constraints are subjectiv...
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On the ... postmodern rearrangement of the GAM in Turin: is this what we want from a museum today?

The Gallery of Modern Art (GAM) in Turin is not just any museum: it has been in existence for more than a century, is often proudly presented as the first public collection of modern art in Italy, and houses one of the richest and most comprehensive ...
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The ancient art market must open up to sharing and dialogue

Starting a reflection around the art market today, in our contemporary times, is a far from simple matter. First of all, we need to call into question the very, sociological meaning of buying and selling works of art, a meaning that has its roots in ...
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