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Nadim Samman on curating digital art beyond accessibility and spectacle opinion-review
Nadim Samman, who serves as the director of the Autotelic Foundation and curates the Vienna Digital Cultures Festival, promotes curatorial approaches that resist reducing art to…
Italian Cinema Confronts Gender Violence with New Urgency opinion-review
Italian cinema is increasingly addressing gender-based violence as a structural issue rather than a narrative device. Paola Cortellesi's 2023 film "C'è ancora domani" broke ground…
Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible at Cannes 2025 Reviewed opinion-review
Nicola Davide Angerame reviews the first part of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, focusing on Tom Cruise's career trajectory. The film is…
Debunking myths about museum management in Italy opinion-review
Angelo Argento, an Italian lawyer and professor of Cultural Heritage Legislation at Brera Academy of Fine Arts, writes an opinion piece on Artribune dismantling common criticisms…
Workplace Art Programs Linked to Improved Employee Wellbeing and Creativity opinion-review
A recent article discusses how integrating art into office environments can positively impact employee wellbeing, creativity, and workplace culture. The piece highlights that art…
Trump lapel pins as political power tools: from MAGA to gold cards opinion-review
A cheap enamel pin bearing Donald Trump's profile is spreading across the US, signaling a shift from bipartisan flag pins to personalized leader iconography. The gold-colored pin,…
Milan art fairs lack bike parking, critic argues for mobility managers opinion-review
In a critical opinion piece published on Artribune, editor Massimiliano Tonelli argues that Milan's art fairs and cultural institutions systematically fail to accommodate visitors…
Christian Caliandro critica l'incapacità del sistema dell'arte di auto-criticarsi opinion-review
In un editoriale su Artribune, Christian Caliandro sostiene che il sistema dell'arte contemporanea ha espulso ogni forma di critica, auto-imponendosi una narrazione univoca e…
Monreale massacre exposes Palermo's cultural and social crisis opinion-review
A shooting occurred on April 26, 2025, following a fight outside a Monreale bar, resulting in the deaths of three young men: Salvo, Andrea, and Massimo, with two others injured.…
Is Public Art Truly Public? A Critical Examination of Italy's Piazzas opinion-review
The article by Nicola Davide Angerame questions whether public art in Italian piazzas is genuinely public, contrasting it with museum governance. While museums have scientific…
Architecture criticism in the digital age: everyone can be a critic opinion-review
In his recent article for the 'Conversazioni di Architettura' series on Artribune, Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi argues that architectural criticism is no longer just for experts. He…
Guido Giustetto: l'estetica della cura come medicina più umana opinion-review
In an interview with Artribune, Dr. Guido Giustetto, president of OMCeO in Turin and scientific director of the magazine il Punto.it, elaborates on the idea of 'aesthetics of…
Anna Weyant's success and Air de Paris' Art Basel withdrawal signal art world's corporate shift opinion-review
Gabriele Guercio's new book 'Arte e decadenza. Dilettanti professionisti maestri' (Quodlibet) analyzes the rapid success of young artist Anna Weyant, who entered Gagosian's…
Italian cultural workers call for general strike on May Day opinion-review
On the occasion of May Day, the association Mi Riconosci published a call for a general strike of the cultural sector in Italy. The strike aims to improve labor conditions in the…
Ready-made and immersive art are no longer cool, argues Pericle Guaglianone opinion-review
Pericle Guaglianone argues that ready-made and immersive art have lost their 'coolness,' citing Paola Pivi's helicopter installation in a Cremona church as a weak work despite its…
Aurora Fiorentini on the crisis in fashion: loss of poetry, investor control, and market shifts opinion-review
In an interview with Artribune, fashion historian Aurora Fiorentini reflects on the turmoil within the fashion sector, echoing journalist Antonio Mancinelli's view that it has…
The vanishing intellectual and artist: a crisis of collective direction opinion-review
Domenico Ioppolo argues that intellectuals and artists have lost their role as societal guides, a function they held for centuries. He traces the decline from the 1970s debates on…
Pope Francis, Trump, Zelensky and the Power of Images in the Age of Media opinion-review
An editorial by Helga Marsala on Artribune examines the communicative legacy of Pope Francis, emphasizing his mastery of imagery and media. It contrasts his conservative doctrinal…
Rethinking Art History Education for the Digital Age opinion-review
Stefano Monti argues that traditional art history teaching methods are outdated and proposes interactive courses that integrate contemporary tools like Instagram filters and AI…
Utopia as Essential Element in Architectural Masterpieces opinion-review
Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi argues that utopia is a fundamental component of architectural masterpieces, which often contain deliberate 'errors' or deviations from standards. He…
Italy's 5-day national mourning for Pope devastates cultural sector opinion-review
Italy imposed five days of national mourning from April 22 to 26 following the death of Pope Francis, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of Liberation Day on April 25. The…
Il bipensiero tra Black Mirror e Orwell: l'arte nell'epoca delle contraddizioni opinion-review
L'articolo di Fabrizio Ajello su Artribune esplora il concetto di 'bipensiero' orwelliano applicato all'arte contemporanea, citando Christian Caliandro. Il pensiero duale e…
Italian regions fail cultural challenge, says Artribune analysis opinion-review
An Artribune article by Massimiliano Tonelli criticizes Italian regions for their inadequate cultural policies, using Tuscany as a case study. Established in 1970 to decentralize…
Botanical Turn: How Contemporary Art Embraces Plant Life opinion-review
A fresh movement in contemporary art emphasizes the significance of plant life, motivated by ecological concerns and challenges to human-centered perspectives. Artists such as…
AI could bridge the gap between artworks and their historical context opinion-review
The relationship between time and culture is usually considered in material terms—restoring films, digitizing archives—but rarely in terms of content or expressive form aging. A…
Christian Caliandro: l'arte contemporanea ha abbandonato il pensiero critico? opinion-review
Christian Caliandro, storico dell'arte contemporanea e docente all'Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, pubblica su Artribune un saggio che accusa gran parte dell'arte…
Post-mediazione: quando il fruitore attiva il patrimonio culturale muto opinion-review
Alessio Esposito, dottorando in Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale all'Università di Roma Tor Vergata, pubblica un saggio che critica la mediazione museale tradizionale e propone…
Carlo Arturo Quintavalle on Photography, Territory, and History opinion-review
Carlo Arturo Quintavalle (born 1936), professor emeritus at the University of Parma and founder of the Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione (CSAC), discusses photography's…
Pino Boresta on the Existential Void in Contemporary Art opinion-review
Artist Pino Boresta draws a parallel between the neutrino, described as 'the closest thing to nothing that exists,' and contemporary art's engagement with emptiness. He references…
Jago's Rise: Art, Marketing, and the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2025 opinion-review
Italian sculptor Jacopo Cardillo, known as Jago, has become a pop phenomenon through strategic self-promotion and social media, bypassing the traditional art system. His works,…
5 new video games released in April 2025: reviews opinion-review
Artribune's monthly video game column reviews five recent releases. Afterlove EP, by Indonesian studio Pikselnesia and publisher Fellow Traveller, is a narrative game set in…
Coopculture multata per bagarinaggio al Colosseo: il sistema museale italiano sotto accusa opinion-review
Il caso della multa a Coopculture per la gestione dei biglietti del Colosseo solleva questioni strutturali sul rapporto pubblico-privato nei musei italiani. Coopculture, che ha…
AI's Real Danger Is Determinism, Not Autonomy opinion-review
Stefano Monti argues that the true risk of artificial intelligence lies not in the technology itself but in society's deterministic drive to conform to it. Paraphrasing Luciano…
Storytellers as essential mediators of art's meaning opinion-review
The article argues that art requires storytelling to convey its deeper meanings, using Caravaggio's 'The Calling of Saint Matthew' (1599–1600) in the Contarelli Chapel, Rome, as a…
Arte e post-verità: l'interdisciplinarità come resistenza opinion-review
In un periodo segnato dalla parola 'post-verità' nel 2016, l'arte rischia di perdere la sua funzione critica a causa degli algoritmi che promuovono contenuti sensazionali sui…
Fashion as community: from YSL's muses to Missoni's family clan opinion-review
The piece contends that the essence of fashion is rooted in communal creativity, community ties, and familial relationships, rather than in the brilliance of individuals. It…
Kant's Triad of Pleasure, Beauty, and Utility in Architecture opinion-review
Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi explores Kant's aesthetic concepts—the pleasant, the beautiful, and the good—within the context of modern architectural critique. He posits that beauty…
Pollaiolo's Lady and Neoplatonic Melancholy in Milan opinion-review
A painting in Milan, likely Antonio del Pollaiolo's 'Dama del Pollaiolo' (Portrait of a Young Woman) at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, is analyzed through the lens of Neoplatonic…
Artists and Curators Debate Art's Role in Addressing Urgent Issues opinion-review
In a recent piece by Artribune, artists and curators engaged in a dialogue about the role of art in addressing current crises. Luca Vitone expressed that while artists hold…
Christian Caliandro on nostalgia as capitalist extraction in culture opinion-review
In a recent interview with Matt Everitt, Robert Smith of The Cure stated that the title of the band's latest album, "Songs of a Lost World," stems from his belief that humanity…

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