Magazzino Italian Art Debuts Robert Olnick Pavilion in New York’s Hudson Valley
By Matthew Marani
Sep. 14, 2023
The quaint riverfront village of Cold Spring, New York, is not immediately synonymous with one of the largest private collections of modern and contemporary Italian art in North America. But in this Hudson Valley community, located roughly 50 miles north of New York City and shrouded by the forested peaks of Storm King Mountain and Breakneck Ridge, the museum and research center Magazzino Italian Art has steadily developed a robust curatorial and research program dedicated to just that. This week, Magazzino—Italian for “warehouse”—opens the Robert Olnick Pavilion, the second standalone structure on the nonprofit venture’s growing 10-acre hillside campus…
Photo credits: William Mulvihill, Javier Callejas, Marco Anelli
Renovation, restoration, adaptation
By Architectural Record
Mar. 15, 2018
In the March 2018 issue, Architectural Record takes an in depth look at renovated and restored buildings. A makeover and a striking new addition transform a modest warehouse into the Hudson Valley's latest art destination….
Photo credits: Javier Callejas
https://www.architecturalrecord.com/publications/1/editions/30
Magazzino Italian Art by Miguel Quismondo
By Alex Klimoski
Mar. 06, 2018
Its name may be the Italian word for warehouse, but Magazzino, a privately owned art gallery in the quaint Hudson Valley village of Cold Spring, New York, hardly brings to mind the steely austerity one might associate with the term. Composed of two low-slung rectilinear volumes connected by two fully glazed corridors, its architecture is understated, ethereal. Yet the concept of a warehouse is central to the space’s identity—one of the structures, built in 1964, functioned for years as a storage facility for a computer manufacturer and, before that, as a distribution center for dairy products. The name alludes as well to the barren industrial spaces that were the backdrop of Arte Povera—the Italian movement of the 1960s and ’70s that celebrated unglamorous, everyday materials in defiance of commercialism in the art world—and Magazzino’s core content…
Photo credits: Javier Callejas
https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13280-magazzino-italian-art-by-miguel-quismondo
March 2005 – Olnick Spanu House
By Architectural Record
Mar. 15 2005
