“Hackles were raised in Rome’s art establishment in December at the announcement of a new artistic director for the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma (Macro).” The choice was artist and anthropologist Giorgio de Finis, whom one newspaper dubbed “the squatter director.” His upcoming show “will transform the museum into an ‘open laboratory’ where ‘there will be no exhibitions’, he says, as ‘the daily activity of the museum itself will be on show’. Artists will be invited to transfer their studio practice to Macro, while major international figures and scholars from varied disciplines will deliver lectures and talks. Meanwhile, the permanent collection will be densely installed ‘like the Hermitage.'”