Arte povera : 4 Articles

A man has been arrested after the life-size version of Michelangelo Pistoletto's 'Ragged Venus' was smashed. City officials said the artwork would be reinstalled.

Lia Rumma, a powerful art dealer, donates 70 works by prominent Italian artists. The gift will be shown in a national museum in Naples. Many of the works are by artists associated with Arte Povera, a 1960s and 1970s movement.

Artistic trends that involved the use of waste, recycled objects and poor materials in their creative process have been popular since the early 20th century and are still popular today....

Arte Povera, originally an artistic guerrilla based on a formal radicalism and an economy of means, has never been so topical.