Interviews

Reading the art of the present without hierarchies. Interview with Maurizio Coccia

What is the meaning of curating contemporary art today, understood as a practice of connecting and surfacing the present? In this interview with Gabriele Landi, Maurizio Coccia, Director of the Center for Contemporary Art Palazzo Lucarini in Trevi (P...
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Why is Italy struggling so hard to solve tourism problems? Roberto Guiggiani speaks

The book Bellezza Italia. A User's Manual for the Tourism We Want (Primamedia Editore, 172 pages, 16 euros), takes the form of a dialogue between a tourism operator and a cultural operator, namely Roberto Guiggiani (professor of Tourism Markets and T...
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In the age of algorithms, art criticism must be rethought: long interview with Lorenzo Bruni (The Others)

What sense does it make today to talk about art criticism in a world where anyone can express an opinion but real debate is increasingly rare? In the age of the infosphere, social media and supposed cultural democratization, judgment seems to have ta...
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Pisani's Gipsoteca and the challenge of restoring dignity to southern art

In a long interview in 1996, Federico Zeri carefully analyzed, one by one, the problems, related to the study (and partly to the profession) of art history in Italy. Despite its extraordinary cultural heritage, in Zeri's eyes, in those years the Ital...
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"Museums should excite": interview with Gianluca De Felice

The book Bellezza Italia. A User's Manual for the Tourism We Want (Primamedia Editore, 172 pages, 16 euros), a volume in the form of a dialogue between a tourism operator and a cultural operator, namely Roberto Guiggiani (professor of Tourism Markets...
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Interview with Stella Falzone, director of MArTA: "Our museum? A place in eternal evolution."

Since January 2024, Stella Falzone has been directing the National Archaeological Museum of Taranto, and has brought a strategic vision to transform the MArTA from a place of static conservation into a dynamic and inclusive space at the service of so...
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Inside the Museum of the Etruscan Academy of Cortona: the museum as told by its technical committee

From the heights of Cortona, a town overlooking the Valdichiana, the MAEC - Museum of the Etruscan Academy and the City of Cortona - continues to tell, with an ever new voice, one of the most fascinating stories of antiquity: that of the Etruscans. H...
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"Cavallino-Treporti is a model of tourist reception and quality of life." The mayor speaks

Roberta Nesto, a lawyer and freelancer, has solid experience in civil law. In 2020 she became the first mayor of the municipality of Cavallino-Treporti to win re-election for a second term. During her administration the area has strengthened its role...
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A new biography of the Painter-Heroine Elisabetta Sirani. Interview with Adelina Modesti

Adelina Modesti has published her second monograph in English on the artist, Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665), a virtuosa of early modern Bologna. At the heart of Modesti’s study is the life and work of a painter and printmaker who, raised in her ...
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"Color is a door that opens to the unconscious." Conversation with Rolando Tessadri

Rolando Tessadri was born in Mezzolombardo (Trento) in 1968. An analytical painter, known for his "textures" where the main element is the module an orthogonal grid obtained through the frottage technique, he stands out for his meticulous, minimalist...
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At the origin of the Rome Quadrennial: interview with Walter Guadagnini

It is the intuition and merit of the late President of the Quadriennale di Roma, Luca Beatrice, to have wanted to add a historical postilla to this otherwise very young 18th edition that has just opened, with the exhibition I giovani e i maestri: la ...
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This is what the new layout of Siena's Pinacoteca Nazionale will look like: Marco Magni talks

At the Siena National Picture Gallery, work has begun on energy efficiency and the removal of architectural barriers that will last until June 2026, an opportunity, along with the movement of works, to rethink the museum's new layout in order to brin...
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Africa in Piedmont: the treasure of collector Ettore Brezzo

Ettore Brezzo, originally from Giaveno (Turin) and graduated as an industrial expert, has always combined the concreteness of his work with a poetic sensibility and inexhaustible curiosity. His professional life has taken him several times to African...
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"If art has no value for our lives, we can bury it!" Luca Rossi speaks

Luca Rossi is an art collective and critic who has been lashing out at the contemporary art world, live and online, since 2009, with targeted actions, artworks that have often focused on highly topical issues (e.g., infodemics, the constant flow of i...
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Exclusive interview with Nicolas Bourriaud: "Relational art is still alive." Soon an exhibition at MAXXI

In Rome, an overture to the new art season slightly impatient but positive with the capital's first exhibition event at the Basement gallery of art magazine Cura founders Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin, who kicked off Sept. 10, 2025, the first edit...
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Calabria, Mileto reborn with its Park and Museum: the new face of Calabrian history

A new air is blowing in Miletus. A ferment of ideas is felt strongly, combined with enthusiasm of spirit and an urgency for concrete reorganization. The opportunity to have proof of this has arisen thanks to the growing interest shown in it with resp...
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