“A masterpiece. The best museum design I have ever seen in my entire life.” This is how, in 1967, Walter Gropius described the Regional Gallery of Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo (in the heart of the ...

Artist unknown, “The Triumph of Death” (1446), fresco, 20 x 21 feet, Regional Gallery of Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo, Sicily (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) PALERMO, ...

Walking through Palermo’s historical centre, the stunning old city soon reveals itself as a palimpsest. Street names, edifices and ornaments often disclose traces of the many cultures, rulers and ...

View of the loggia, to the right a profile picture of Carlo Scarpa and of a horse's head, housed in the Archives of the Regional Gallery of Sicily in Palazzo Abatellis. (Photo Greg Taig) ...

Two exhibitions in Italy, less than two weeks apart, have the same artist, the same curator and more than 20 works in common. Yet the Antonello da Messina exhibition now at Milan’s Palazzo Reale is ...