"History should be an asset, not a burden": Arturo Galansino on the art of dialogue
Contemporary art in the cradle of the Renaissance? Everybody thought he was crazy.
Arturo Galansino is the director of one of Europe's most dynamic contemporary art museums, Palazzo Strozzi, in Florence. His first exhibition with Ai Weiwei became the most visited contemporary art exhibition ever held in Italy, and his recent Mark Rothko exhibition drew more than 300,000 visitors, the most in the palazzo’s history. A self-confessed country boy from Piedmont, he studied Caravaggio in Milan and spent more than a decade abroad at the Louvre, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy before…
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