A Huge Art Museum Is Secretly About to Open in the Hudson Valley

September 14, 2016

The Olnick Spanu art program takes place in the couple’s Hudson Valley home, which is near the new museum. Photographer: Javier Callejas/Estudio Campo Baeza/Flickr.

For several years, Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu have quietly accumulated a 400-piece collection of postwar Italian art from a movement known as Arte Povera. Now the husband-and-wife team are on the verge of opening a 20,000-square-foot private exhibition space in the Hudson Valley town of Cold Spring, N.Y., to showcase their collection.