20th century

October 7, 2016
Italo-Argentine artist Lucio Fontana died on 7 October 1968.

September 18, 2016
Arte Povera Collection Gets New York Home A new space housing the impressive Arte Povera and contemporary art collection of Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu is under construction.

September 13, 2016
Italian modernist Mario Sironi died on 13 August 1961 in Milan.

September 11, 2016
Modest Modernism and Social Photography at Museo Italo Americano An exhibit opened this weekend at San Francisco’s Museo Italo Americano is devoted to a shift in the work of still life photographer William Castellana from studies of plants and landscapes toward the social history of his own Williamsburg neighborhood.

August 17, 2016
One Month Remains: Imagine: New Imagery in Italian Art, 1960–1969 Closing in just over thirty days’ time is the exhibition, “Imagine: New Imagery in Italian Art, 1960-1969,” hosted by The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice .

July 29, 2016
The Futurist poet and painter Francesco Cangiullo died on this day, 29 July 1977.

July 20, 2016
Italian modernist Giorgio Morandi was born 20 July 1890 in Bologna.

July 10, 2016
Giorgio De Chirico was born to Italian parents on 10 July in 1888 in Vólos, Greece.

July 3, 2016
Architect and urban planner-theorist Carlo Aymonino died on 3 July 2010.

June 25, 2016
Painter, sculptor, and performance artist Michelangelo Pistoletto was born on June 25, 1933, in Biella.