Artevivo Magazine is an English-language publication about Italian art, design and cultural heritage. We write about the objects themselves — a fresco cycle, a marble block, a violin, a bridge — and about the people, institutions and decisions that brought them into being and keep them standing.
The magazine is published from Milan by Artevivo Edizioni S.r.l. and is read mainly outside Italy: by travellers planning a visit, by students, by collectors and curators, and by readers who simply want to understand what they are looking at.
What we cover
Our work is organised into six areas, and every article we publish belongs to one of them.
- Old Masters — painting, sculpture and fresco from the Trecento to the eighteenth century, and the scholarship and conservation that keep changing how we see it.
- Modern & Contemporary — Futurism, Spatialism, Arte Povera, the postwar avant-gardes, and the artists working in Italy now.
- Museums & Exhibitions — openings, restorations, acquisitions, funding, and the institutions that decide what the public can see.
- Architecture & Design — from Renaissance building sites to Milanese product design and contemporary practice.
- Craft & Heritage — glass, marble, ceramics, paper, textiles and instrument making: the workshops and techniques that have survived, and the pressures on them.
- Photography — Italian photographers, and the photographic record of the country itself.
How we work
Artevivo is a written magazine, not an aggregator. We do not republish press releases as articles, we do not run syndicated wire copy under our own byline, and we do not publish undisclosed sponsored content dressed as editorial.
Every article is checked against primary and institutional sources before publication: museum and foundation websites, UNESCO documentation, conservation reports, exhibition catalogues, university publications and archival records. Where a figure is contested between sources — the number of surviving instruments by a maker, the dimensions of a panel, the date a workshop was founded — we say so in the text rather than picking the most convenient number.
Where we get something wrong, we correct it on the page, and we say what changed. Our full standards, including how corrections are handled, are set out in our Editorial Policy.
Independence
Artevivo Magazine has no ownership relationship with any museum, gallery, auction house, foundation or dealer. We accept advertising and clearly labelled sponsored features, and those arrangements never determine editorial coverage, tone or timing. Advertisers see no article before publication and have no right of review. The commercial terms are described on our Advertising page.
Where a writer has a relationship with a subject — a paid commission from an institution, a family connection, a work in their own collection — that relationship is disclosed in the article.
Images and rights
Most of the artworks we illustrate are in the public domain, and we source images accordingly, principally from Wikimedia Commons and from institutional open-access programmes. Each image carries a caption identifying the work, its date and its collection, together with the licence where one applies.
Twentieth- and twenty-first-century works are generally still in copyright, and we do not reproduce them without permission. In articles about modern artists you will therefore often see the museum that holds the work, the studio, or the city, rather than the work itself. If you believe an image on this site infringes your rights, our DMCA Policy explains how to have it removed.
Contributing
We commission from writers with genuine subject knowledge: curators, conservators, architectural historians, archaeologists, working craftspeople and journalists who cover the sector. If that describes you, our Write for Us page sets out what we look for and how to pitch.
Contact and legal identity
Artevivo Magazine is published by Artevivo Edizioni S.r.l., with its registered office at Via Giuseppe Ripamonti 44, 20141 Milan, Italy. General enquiries go to [email protected]; the full set of addresses, telephone numbers and company registration details is on our Contact page.