Magazzino Director Vittorio Calabrese and Italian artist Marco Anelli welcomed the Italian Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini on a personal tour of Anelli’s current exhibition “Marco Anelli: Building Magazzino”, on view through November 2 at the Italian Cultural Institute.

The entourage also included Armando Varricchio, Italian ambassador to the United States; Giorgio Van Straten, director of the Italian Cultural Institute; and Francesco Genuardi, Consul General of Italy in New York.

The Minister is set to give a presentation later this evening at the Consulate General of Italy in New York titled “The Road for Beauty: new opportunities to invest in culture in Italy”, which focuses on the Art Bonus Law passed in Italy in 2014.