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Valentina Rossi-Moretti

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Valentina Rossi-Moretti covers books, publishing and the arts, bringing a reader's care for language and craft. Her reporting spans publishing production and trade economics, art criticism and museum conservation, emerging artists and market pricing, demanding religious texts read closely, and the changing habits of reading on screens.

Articles by 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