Artevivo Magazine commissions from writers who know their subject at first hand: curators, conservators, archaeologists, architectural and art historians, working craftspeople, and journalists who cover the cultural sector. If you are one of those, we would like to read your pitch.
Send it to [email protected].
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What we want
A pitch that names a specific thing and tells us what is interesting about it. The strongest pitches we receive tend to be one of these:
- An object and its problem. A single work, building or artefact, and the technical, historical or ethical question it raises. Why the pigment failed. Why the attribution moved. Why the roof is a structural mystery.
- Something happening now. A restoration under way, an excavation season, a reinstallation, a museum reorganisation, a workshop closing or reopening — reported by someone who has been there.
- A craft explained by someone who does it. How the material actually behaves, what the tools are, what goes wrong, what the trade is worried about.
- New scholarship made legible. A recent finding in a journal or a catalogue that deserves a wider readership, explained without jargon and with its significance made clear.
What we do not want
- Listicles: “Ten paintings you must see in Florence”.
- General overviews of famous subjects with nothing new in them.
- Personal travel writing, or an account of your holiday with an artwork in it.
- Reviews of exhibitions that closed some time ago, unless there is a reason to return to them.
- Anything that requires us to assert the authenticity, attribution or value of an object.
- Pieces about your own gallery, foundation, shop or artistic practice. That is a commercial arrangement, not a commission.
- Text produced by a generative model. We can tell, we check, and it ends the relationship.
How to pitch
One email, in English, containing:
- A subject line in the form: Pitch — [section] — [subject].
- Two or three paragraphs setting out the story: what it is, why it matters, what is new or under-reported about it, and what the reader will know at the end that they did not know at the start.
- Your access and sources. Who you can speak to, what you can see, which archives or reports you will use. This matters more than anything else in the pitch.
- Your background, in three lines, and two links to published work. If you have not published before but you have direct expertise — you run the furnace, you did the conservation — say that instead; it counts for more.
- Any conflict of interest. Paid work for an institution in the piece, a personal connection, a work by the artist in your collection. Disclosing it does not disqualify a pitch. Failing to disclose it does.
- Images. Whether you can supply photographs you own the rights to, or whether the subject is illustrable from public domain and freely licensed sources.
We reply within fifteen working days. If you have not heard from us by then, treat the pitch as free to place elsewhere.
Terms of commission
- Length is agreed at commissioning, usually between 1,100 and 2,000 words. Write to the brief; we would rather have a tight 1,200 than a padded 2,000.
- Fees are agreed in advance in writing, per piece, and are paid within 30 days of publication or, if publication is delayed for our reasons beyond 60 days from delivery, on that date. A commissioned piece we decide not to run is paid at 50 per cent.
- Rights. You keep copyright. You grant us first English-language publication and a non-exclusive perpetual right to keep the piece on the site and in our archive. After 60 days you are free to republish elsewhere with a credit and link to the original.
- Editing. We edit for accuracy, structure, length and house style. You see the edited text before it goes live and we do not publish over your objection on a point of fact.
- Sourcing. Deliver with a source note: for every date, figure, dimension and quotation, where it came from. This is not optional and is the most common reason a delivered piece is sent back.
- Standards. Everything in our Editorial Policy applies to you as it does to us. Fabrication, plagiarism, undisclosed conflicts and undisclosed generative text end the relationship and are grounds for withholding the fee.
House style, briefly
British spelling. Metric units, with historical units noted where a source used them. Italian terms italicised and translated on first use. Artwork and book titles in italics. Full names on first mention, surname thereafter. Dates as 3 September 2026. Numbers up to ten in words. No exclamation marks. No rhetorical questions as openers. Do not begin a piece by telling the reader that Italy has a rich artistic heritage; they know.