WSJ: ‘Nivola: Sandscapes’ Review: Innovations From Italy

In 2017, an elegant new exhibition space opened in this town—adding another bastion of vanguard art to the Hudson Valley, about 20 minutes south of DIA Beacon and easily reached by the Metro-North Railroad. Describing itself as “a museum and research center dedicated to advancing scholarship and public appreciation of postwar and contemporary Italian art in the United States,” Magazzino—“warehouse” in Italian—was founded by the collectors Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu, her husband, to advocate for Italian artists from the beginning of Arte Povera (the couple’s initial passion) in the late 1960s to the present.