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  • Photo by Marco Anelli © 2017
    Art & Culture

    Olnick Spanu, Pioneers of Italian Contemporary Art

    Roberta Cutillo(February 26, 2020)
    We met with Giorgio Spanu, co-founder - along with his wife Nancy Olnick - of Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring. The half-Italian, half-American couple has for the past 20 years been instrumental in the promotion and divulgation of contemporary Italian art in the United States.
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    Cecilia Alemani to Curate the Venice Biennale

    Roberta Cutillo(January 13, 2020)
    The director and curator of the High Line’s art program, will be the first Italian woman to organize the Venice Art Biennale, one of the most important international contemporary art appointments in the world.
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    Casa Colombo Presents “I-Phone as Brush / Cell-phone as Muse”

    Laura Pace(December 11, 2019)
    Last Saturday, Jersey City’s Casa Colombo Italian Educational and Cultural Center hosted the successful opening of the exhibition “I-phone as brush / cell-phone as muse” by photographers Mirko Notarangelo and Kerry Kolenut. A show centered around the idea of the smartphone as a new art-making tool.
  • Francesco Simeti with his work in Civita di Bagnoreggio. Photo by Piotr Niepsuj.
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    Confronting Reality in Francesco Simeti’s “Imaginary” Worlds

    Roberta Cutillo(October 10, 2019)
    Following the opening of the artist’s latest show in New York’s Assembly Room, I sat down with him in his Gowanus studio to talk about what informs his practice, its accumulative nature, as well as its penchant towards a baroque aesthetic, which he uses to “trick” viewers into confronting the difficult realities, from devastating wars to the rapid advance of climate change, hiding behind all the embellishments.
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    Magazzino and Casa Italiana (NYU) Present Renato Leotta

    Roberta Cutillo(May 02, 2019)
    Magazzino Italian Art Foundation and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò present an exhibition of Italian contemporary artist Renato Leotta. The first of this two-part show opened on April 30th at Casa Italiana, while the second, a site-specific installation, is on view on the grounds of Magazzino in Cold Spring throughout the Summer.
  • Giorgio Spanu, Nancy Olnick, Ilaria Bernardi, Massimo Bartolini
    Art & Culture

    Celebrating the International Day of Italian Contemporary Art in DC

    Emily Hayes(October 19, 2018)
    The Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington D.C. hosted a conversation on new trends in Italian Art. The panel, New Directions: Italian Contemporary Art in the United States, featured curator Ilaria Bernardi and artist Massimo Bartolini, along with Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu, co-founders of Magazzino Italian Art, a museum in the Hudson Valley dedicated to Post-war and Contemporary Italian Art
  • Poem (Wild Geese), 2015. Courtesy of Claudia Palmira
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    From New York to Rome, the Talent of Claudia Palmira

    Alexandra M. Fanelli(February 22, 2018)
    A selection of works by the multifaceted Italian American talent, Claudia Palmira, are on view at the prominent Margutta Home Gallery in Rome from February 22nd. Along with artists, Elena Drommi, Claudia Bellini and Fabio Ferrone Viola, the exhibition will run through March 25th, 2018.

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