What began for Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu as a shared love of Murano glass in the 1990s, grew into one of the world's largest collection of Postwar and Contemporary Italian art. A year ago, they opened Magazzino Italian Art, a 20,000-square-foot "art warehouse space" in Cold Spring, NY dedicated to widening public appreciation and education of Post-war and Contemporary Italian Art in the United States.

A new film series, Cinema in Piazza, organized by Magazzino in collaboration with Artecinema and Cold Spring Film Society, will offer Hudson Valley residents a new window into the minds and methods of the status-quo-defiant Italian artists on display at the warehouse along with American artists of the same generation.