A system of commercial corporations, serial curators, compass-less aldermen and politically enslaved museum directors churns out boxy, culturally irrelevant and dangerous exhibitions at a steady stream. It's time to develop intellectual antibodies, start making serious exhibitions again, rediscover the Italian territory.

It is an Italian vice: producing blockbuster exhibitions. The ingredients are always the same: Caravaggio and Leonardo, the Impressionists, Van Gogh, Picasso, Dalí and Warhol. We do about ten thousand a year, but we should have serious doubts about this saraband. First, because it is almost always pure entertainment: for a fee, and of low quality. Almost never is there original research behind it, and almost always there is nothing to learn: the truth is that unscrupulous private individuals and public authorities without a plan put unique pieces, often of the highest value, at risk. We need to get back to serious, free, educational exhibitions. And there is a more radical alternative: break the cage of events, and dive back into the dense context of art and landscape that makes Italy unique in the world. Reconnect the past with the present, through true and free knowledge. Outside the market, in the heart of our cities.