What do you find most interesting about Art History?
I have always been drawn to the ways in which works of art relate to their social context of production. Specifically, how artists negotiate, question, and reimagine particular structures of society alongside their underlying power dynamics and political ideologies through medium, subject matter, and…
Continue reading >>Members only tour of Giuseppe Penone at Marian Goodman Gallery
Written by CIMA’s Spring 2021 intern, Clara Apostolatos.
Marian Goodman Gallery is currently exhibiting a series of canvases, drawings, and sculptures by Turin-based Giuseppe Penone (born 1947, Garessio, Italy), a prolific multimedia artist with a career spanning over four decades. On the afternoon of April 8th, 2021, CIMA members were given a walking tour of…
Continue reading >>Members only tour of Morandi and Albers at David Zwirner
Written by CIMA’s Spring 2021 intern, Clara Apostolatos.
On Friday March 19th, CIMA members were given a walking tour of the David Zwirner Gallery’s current exhibition Albers and Morandi: Never Finished, led by the exhibit curator David Leiber and CIMA Founder and President Laura Mattioli. This exhibit explores the visual resonances and contrasts between two…
Continue reading >>MEET OUR SPRING 2021 INTERN: CLARA APOSTOLATOS
How did you first become interested in Art History?
I became interested in art history during my first semester at Columbia University when I enrolled in a ‘Masterpieces of Western Art’ course that surveyed the canon of western art—from classical architecture of Ancient Greece to the gestural paintings of Abstract Expressionism. I found myself drawn…
Continue reading >>Laura Mattioli and David Leiber walk through ‘Albers and Morandi: Never Finished’
CIMA President and Founder Laura Mattioli walks through the ongoing exhibition Albers and Morandi, Never Finished at David Zwirner in NYC; Watch the video here: 
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MEET OUR NEW FELLOW: VIRGINIA MAGNAGHI
What made you become interested in Art History?
My interest didn’t come so soon, certainly not as a vocation. After high school, I had the great opportunity to start my Bachelor in Humanities in Venice, and the city was in a sense the one who guided me towards art history, in an immersive and powerful…
Continue reading >>For the holidays: CIMA Staff picks the best Italian treats
In anticipation of the opening of Facing America: Mario Schifano, 1960–1965 we extend greetings to our community by offering up a few of our favorite things to inspire your holiday season…
Meet our Fall 2020 Fellow: Carlotta Vacchelli
What made you become interested in Art History?
My passion for Art History started when I visited the Tate Modern as a teenager, and it never abandoned me. I still clearly remember the aesthetic shock I perceived when I saw their collection: a sense that all these inexplicably, uncannily beautiful masterpieces were somehow talking…
Continue reading >>A different Summer, by Ilaria M. P. Barzaghi
A different summer. Actually, for many of us, in Italy and elsewhere in the world, this summer was not so different from other ones, if we were lucky enough to survive the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic without tragic loss in our families. We just have to wear masks, avoid crowds, and be more…
Continue reading >>Franco Baldasso’s pandemic video reportage
After March 13, 2020, when CIMA was forced to close its doors due to the public health crisis, we called on past fellows to reflect on their experience at CIMA, what they were currently working on, and how they were dealing with the strict lockdown.
Enjoy Franco Baldasso’s testimony in two parts here.
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