Germano Celant’s 1967 essay named a loose group of Italian artists working with rope, coal and live horses. Pistoletto’s rag Venus, burned in Naples in 2023, shows how the idea still operates today.
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Two hundred years on, Turin’s Egyptian museum rebuilds itself
The world’s oldest museum devoted to ancient Egypt marked its 2024 bicentenary with a new OMA-designed Gallery of the Kings, built around Bernardino Drovetti’s 1824 collection and Ernesto Schiaparelli’s intact 1906 tomb find.