Contemporary art at the heart of a city’s cultural debate. A community that suddenly wonders about the presence of an outcrop sculpture in its main square, next to the towers of a castle from the ‘200. It happened in these months in Naples, opening new and unexplored pages, sowing doubts and uncertainties.

If you have friends who are art lovers, surely some of them will have, sooner or later, pronounced the term “Bansky”, a misspelling of the name of the famous and mysterious street artist Banksy. It’s one of the most common verbal mistakes in the era of “rather than” misused. But have you ever tried to type “Bansky” on Google? The digital brain will answer you with a familiar riddle: “Maybe you meant Banksy...”.

At this point the question is: how does he know?

At 20, he plays guitar and double bass and already paints. Since ‘58, he dedicated himself totally to painting which he never left

An alchemist of light and colour, able to cross ages and movements without losing his authenticity, Riccardo Guarneri is undoubtedly one of the most sensitive interpreters of the painting of the 20th century, which for over seven decades has shaped the contemporary language, and today he carries the breath of his 91 years, spent interweaving art with the sounds of music.

What you don’t do to bring people to museums

What does not invent, to drag people into museums. After opening the doors to nudists happy to feel, by virtue of the Adam’s costume adopted for the occasion, artworks among the artworks, now it is the turn of the perfumed exhibitions. Paintings to see and smell, in short.

Here are the foreign newsstands where you can find AW ArtMag:

Brazil, UK, USA, Canada, Portugal, Principality of Monaco.

A single work on view in which the artist invites to interact actively

The Macro Museum offers, until February 16th, 2025, the exhibition “Yard” by Allan Kaprow (Atlantic City, 1927), focusing the entire exhibition on a single work, precisely Yard. Created in 1961, the installation represents a milestone in the evolution of 20th-century visual arts.

More than 120 works, including some unpublished ones, cover 60 years of his artistic production

In conjunction with the Jubilee (September 17th, 2024 / January 10th, 2025) and a year after death, at Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome is taking place a large Fernando Botero retrospective (curated by his daughter Lina and Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz - until January 19th, 2025). On view, more than 120 artworks made in about sixty years of activity, including a Homage to Mantegna (1958) only recently discovered and never exhibited.

On view 50 works to illustrate his long artistic path from the years '50 to the years 2000

Milan celebrates Enrico Baj in the centenary of his birth (he was born in the Lombard capital on October 31st, 1924) with a large retrospective, entitled “BAJ. Baj chez Baj,” held in the Hall of Caryatids of Palazzo Reale until February 9th, 2025, curated by Chiara Gatti and Roberta Cerini Baj (Electa catalogue).

Novello Finotti is one of the most famous living plastic artists and representative of the old school of sculpture, which knew how to treat the material and loved doing so, experimenting without ceasing new technical and formal solutions, never aiming at themselves.

With over 200 artworks it is the first major monograph in Europe dedicated to the American photographer

Indistinct silhouettes
cross a deserted square forming a composition of lights and shadows. A face framed by neon lights, absent gaze towards the void. Body fragments fill the whole image, like an abstract plot.