Filippo Fossati succeeds Vittorio Calabrese as director of Magazzino Italian Art

Vittorio Calabrese has stepped down as founding director of Magazzino Italian Art, the museum dedicated to postwar Italian art in Cold Spring, New York. Filippo Fossati, a Turin-born gallerist and writer based in New York, has been appointed as the new director. Calabrese, who led the institution since its 2017 opening, expressed gratitude to founders Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu. Under his tenure, the museum expanded in fall 2023 with a new pavilion by architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo, and inaugurated the Germano Celant Research Center. Olnick was recently named Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana. Fossati, who co-founded Esso Gallery in New York in 1996 and has organized numerous exhibitions, will oversee the museum's next chapter. He stated it is a great honor and a dream come true to lead the institution.