The Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane University in New Orleans announced that it has hired Anna Mecugni as its new curator and coordinator of academic programming. Prior to her new appointment
Over the past five years, the Italian artist Beatrice Pediconi-an architect by training-has produced works that bring together painting, performance and photography. Pediconi is drawn to the gravity…
Truth and falsehood, fact and fiction shifted and overlapped in Elisabetta Benassi’s second solo show at Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, “All I Remember.” The first presentation of a work-in-progress conc…
The Italian solo debut of the 33-year-old South African artist Ruth Sacks resembled a group show. “Double-Sided Accumulated” presented eight highly diverse recent works that occupied the gallery fro…
On Dec. 12, 1969, a bomb exploded at Milan’s Banca Nazionale dell’Agricoltura. Known as the Strage di Piazza Fontana (Fontana Square Massacre), the event signaled the beginning of a turbulent…
This show by the 48-year-old Massimo Bartolini featured two sound installations—each containing a movement-sensitive photocell that activated a sound emission—and a series of three paintings. Two m…
After walking through the Galleria Borghese—a gem of a museum in which masterpieces from classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance and Baroque are housed in a 17th-century villa amid inlaid marb…