Magazzino Italian Art Receives Donation of the Full Run of Catalogues from the Historic Annina Nosei Gallery

Magazzino Italian Art Receives Donation of the Full Run of Catalogues from the Historic Annina Nosei Gallery

Cold Spring, NY—Magazzino Italian Art announces that legendary gallerist Annina Nosei has generously donated the complete run of catalogues of Annina Nosei Gallery, 1986 to 2005, to Magazzino’s Research Center. Taken together, the catalogues document a significant and tumultuous period in recent art history.

Born and educated in Italy, Annina Nosei moved to the United States in 1964 to teach at the University of Michigan and opened Annina Nosei Gallery in New York City’s SoHo district in 1980. She was the first gallerist to exhibit the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, and Barbara Kruger, all of whom participated in her 1981 Public Address group show, and in 1982 she gave Basquiat his first U.S. solo exhibition. Among the other notable artists she represented at her gallery were Ghada Amer, Robert Longo, Shirin Neshat, Donald Newman, Richard Prince, and David Salle.

Also included in the donation are two volumes of Nosei’s memoirs.

The Research Center serves as a resource for scholars and students. It offers an extensive library and archive of publications on a wide array of subjects, including Italian art, postwar and contemporary art, design, architecture, and Murano Glass. The Research Center is accessible by reservation.

About Magazzino Italian Art
Magazzino Italian Art is a museum and research center dedicated to advancing scholarship and public appreciation of postwar and contemporary Italian art in the United States. Located in Cold Spring, New York, the museum was founded by Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu.

In 2017, the first building designed by architect Miguel Quismondo and set within several landscaped acres of the Hudson Highlands, was inaugurated with an exhibition drawn from the Olnick Spanu Collection dedicated to Margherita Stein, founder of the historic Galleria Christian Stein in Milan and a key advocate and supporter of the artists associated with Arte Povera.

In 2023, Magazzino inaugurated its Research Center, named for the art critic and historian who gave Arte Povera its name. Created as an educational nonprofit museum, Magazzino Italian Art increased its indoor space by two-thirds in September 2023 by opening the freestanding Robert Olnick Pavilion designed by architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo and named in memory of Nancy Olnick’s father. This new building provides a multipurpose room with auditorium capabilities, a store, and Café Silvia serving Italian cuisine by Italian Chef Luca Galli.