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Valentina Rossi-Moretti

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Valentina Rossi-Moretti covers Art News, Publishing and Reading.

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Four years after the ArtCraft exodus, a happy ending worth reading skeptically

Four years after the ArtCraft exodus, a happy ending worth reading skeptically

Valentina Rossi-Moretti

A reader's guide to the comfort-lit phenomenon of Mhairi McFarlane

Cover story mhairi mcfarlane: A reader's guide to the comfort-lit phenomenon of Mhairi McFarlane

Valentina Rossi-Moretti

Art fairs vs. museums: where should a new collector start?

Art fairs vs galleries — Art fairs vs. museums: where should a new collector start?

Valentina Rossi-Moretti

What an Opening Reception Is Actually For, and When to Skip It

What an Opening Reception Is Actually For, and When to Skip It

Valentina Rossi-Moretti

How to Read a Group Show: Making Sense of Themed Exhibitions

Group Show Guide — How to Read a Group Show: Making Sense of Themed Exhibitions

Valentina Rossi-Moretti

How to Read an Artist's CV Before a Gallery Visit

Artist CV: How to Read an Artist's CV Before a Gallery Visit

Valentina Rossi-Moretti

The exhibition season, decoded: when to see what

When do art exhibitions open — The exhibition season, decoded: when to see what

Valentina Rossi-Moretti

Gilded Age gallery room with parquet floor and chandelier

The Frick reopened its upstairs for the first time, and changed how the collection reads

Valentina Rossi-Moretti

How the buyer's premium works at Christie's and Sotheby's

How the buyer's premium works at Christie's and Sotheby's

Valentina Rossi-Moretti

How New York decides which artist gets a public art commission

How New York decides which artist gets a public art commission

Valentina Rossi-Moretti

How a public artwork gets commissioned in New York

How a public artwork gets commissioned in New York

Valentina Rossi-Moretti

Trustees and staff review papers around a museum meeting table

New Museum promotes Massimiliano Gioni to director

Valentina Rossi-Moretti

Summer visitors on a museum terrace overlooking a hazy city skyline

Whitney Biennial 2026 carries the museum's summer, floor by floor

Valentina Rossi-Moretti

Sunlit patina on an outdoor bronze sculpture surface, close-up

Brooklyn Navy Yard brings three public art commissions back to Flushing Avenue

Valentina Rossi-Moretti

Close-up of a dress form shoulder draped with pleated archival fabric

Costume Art opens at the Met in new galleries for fashion

Valentina Rossi-Moretti

Crowd silhouettes gathered on grand museum steps at dusk

Met Gala 2026 raises a record $42 million for the Costume Institute

Valentina Rossi-Moretti

Infographic floor plan of museum wing divided by Africa, Americas, Oceania regions

How to visit the Met's reopened Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

Valentina Rossi-Moretti

Empty museum storage corridor lined with art racks and shelving

Greater New York 2026 returns with 53 artists and free entry

Valentina Rossi-Moretti

Museum staff members sort printed artwork reproductions at a worktable

MoMA PS1 goes free for its 50th anniversary year

Valentina Rossi-Moretti

Infographic comparing survey, retrospective and mid-career survey exhibition formats

What museums mean by survey, retrospective and mid-career survey

Valentina Rossi-Moretti

Museum registrars and art handlers unloading a wooden art crate at a loading dock

How exhibitions travel between museums

Valentina Rossi-Moretti