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This year's edition, ‘Persons, Persone, Personen’, celebrates ecologically minded contemporary art that is joyful and sensual

BY Tom Jeffreys |

Writer Thea Hawlin on Giulia Cenci’s dark installations, where the past, present and future converge

BY Thea Hawlin |

From his parodies of celebrity culture to his depiction of gender identities, there is still a lot to unpack on the centenary of the film director’s birth

BY Jamie Mackay |

Why it’s not so simple to move art online – and other news from our Europe dispatch

BY Pablo Larios |

As Italy comes under full lock-down, surveying the effects of a global health emergency

BY Pablo Larios |

Flavia Frigeri discusses a very Roman take on modernism

BY Flavia Frigeri |

‘Since Lucano was elected mayor in 2004, the town of Riace, located in one of the most impoverished regions of Italy, has welcomed thousands of refugees’

BY Alfredo Jaar |

In further news: Lehmann Maupin gallery sues former employee for stealing ‘trade secrets’; was Robert Indiana in control of his final artworks?

Jan van Huysum’s ‘Vase of Flowers’ was stolen in 1943 by retreating German troops

In further news: Lothar Baumgarten dies at 74; Decolonize This Place plan Whitney protest; Italy demands return of Getty Bronze

In further news: Italian government cracks down on art crime; and screening live arts performances fails to diversify audiences 

Xenophobia has escalated to ‘emergency’ levels but the most watched music video on Italian YouTube is by a Tunisian-Italian artist

BY Jamie Mackay |

The Italian architect has offered to help rebuilding efforts, after the collapse of the Morandi bridge which killed 43

Italian politicians want to censor the artist’s poster for a sailing event, which reads ‘We’re all in the same boat’

In a quiet mountain town in Trentino, Italy, the duo Brave New Alps is providing skills and support to precarious migrant communities

BY Alice Rawsthorn |

Rome’s Galleria Borghese director Anna Coliva was suspended last month, and faces charges of absenteeism and defrauding the public purse

The fate of Italy’s museum sector, Hayden White’s voices and Hitler’s American model: what to read this weekend

Despite the departure of culture minister Dario Franceschini, who championed foreign talent, hope remains for the country’s famed art institutions

BY Jamie Mackay |

Various venues, Rome, Italy

BY Ana Vukadin |

MAXXI, Rome, Italy

BY Ara H. Merjian |