Politics and cultural heritage - Finestre sull'Arte

Matteo Renzi wins, culture loses

Of the ideas that Matteo Renzi, fresh winner of the PD primaries, has about culture, we spoke this summer, in an article that moreover we are circulating in these hours on social networks, and which is achieving great success (today we marked the his...
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Journey into the Italy of culture in the service of politics

In Italy it has become increasingly difficult to find the right people in the right places when it comes to public bodies or at least bodies chaired by publicly appointed people. For example, someone who understands agriculture to be in charge of agr...
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More on museum websites: a response to Caterina Pisu of the National Association of Small Museums

My article about Repubblica 's research on museum websites aroused the interest of some insiders (which can only make me happy), including Dr. Caterina Pisu, museologist as well as coordinator of the Research and Communication sector of the Nationa...
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Republic's (bad) research on museum websites. And a proposal

A few days ago, November 23 to be exact, a kind of "survey" of museum websites came out in the pages of Repubblica. The title of the article that presented the results is a whole program:"Ugly and inhospitable, here are the Italian museums on t...
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Congressman Scalfarotto, come visit Italian museums and art places with us.

In an article that appeared Saturday in IlPost1, PD MP Ivan Scalfarotto had his say about a very sensible open letter written by Salvatore Settis to the archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Angelo Scola, asking him to stop work on thepanoramic elevator be...
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States General of Culture in Milan: yet another pointless talk

The very low level of sympathy for this event is already evident from the name that some lofty mind thought of giving it: States-General of Culture. It is reminiscent of the assembly of the social classes in pre-revolutionary France (and we all know...
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Roberto Giacobbo's high popularization of science--could you have guessed it?

"We chose not to present a particular title but to focus on high science popularization. For this we will have a meeting with Roberto Giacobbo on Saturday." Did I read that correctly? At the same time the terms "high popularization of science" and "R...
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Riace bronzes at the gas pump

And yes, we had seen bad ad campaigns, and lots of them. And in this sense MiBAC has been a master. We have seen Michelangelo 's poor David taken away by helicopters. We saw the young man in Francesco Hayez 's Kiss change partners and choose a girl i...
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