Milanese painter and art critic Paolo Manazza dies at 65

Paolo Manazza, a Milanese painter, journalist, and art critic, has died at age 65. Born in 1959, he was a leading authority on the Italian art market, writing for Corriere della Sera where his 'Manazza list' advised on art investments. He founded and directed the online magazine ArtsLife, taught at Accademia di Brera in Milan, and in 2005 received the honor of Ufficiale al Merito della Repubblica Italiana from President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. In 2016 he co-founded WopArt, a fair dedicated to works on paper in Lugano, whose last edition took place in September 2024. As a painter, he was a key figure in contemporary Italian abstract art, but later shifted toward NFTs. In December 2024, one of his paintings was transformed into the world's first 3D NFT viewable without goggles, in collaboration with documentary filmmaker Ilvio Gallo, with music by Steven Piccolo and vibraphone by Sergio Armaroli. The work appeared on the cover of Corriere's cultural supplement La Lettura.