Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring, New York William Mulvihill/Magazzino Art Magazzino Italian Art is located in the historic village of Cold Spring, New York, across the Hudson River from West Point. This unique museum—the only one of its kind in the United States—specializes exclusively in postwar and contemporary Italian art. As such, it offers visitors a chance to experience the beauty and diversity of Italian art and culture close to home.
The museum's impressive holdings include works of art from the 1950s to the present by Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe, Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, and Gilberto Zorio. When one visits the museum, one can’t help but wonder how this gem ever came to be sited on five acres of farmland in the Hudson Valley countryside. The Patrons The husband-wife team of Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu, passionate art collectors, slowly began acquiring art that appealed to their senses, building a priceless private collection over three decades.
They began exhibiting their work in 2000 at the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan, sharing their distinctive Murano glass collection in an exhibition titled “Venetian Glass: 20th-Century Italian Glass From the Olnick Spanu Collection.” After visiting Castello di Rivoli, the contemporary art museum in Turin, Italy, they b.
