You’ve heard of the Slow Food movement: farm-to-table, market-to-hipster, ramp-to-salad bowl and the like. But have you heard of the Slow Art movement? It’s a philosophy that Vittorio Calabrese, the director of Magazzino Italian Art, hopes this new upstate weekender destination will embody. Turns out Slow Food also began in Italy (as a protest against a McDonald's planned for Rome’s historic Piazza di Spagna), and after a leisurely stroll through Magazzino’s sprawling Hudson Valley site, which officially opens to the public June 28th, this doesn’t quite seem like a coincidence.

Magazzino, a warehouse art space for post-war and contemporary Italian art, is set in Cold Spring, NY and has been several years in the works. The founders, Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu, have run an artist-in-residence program on their property in neighboring Garrison since 2003, but the opening of Magazzino marks a new direction for them. The private Olnick Spanu collection contains more than 400 works, and was amassed over the course of three decades. In collector parlance, that's pretty slow. The idea to house the collection (the pieces will rotate in and out) in a public space is a testament to Olnick and Spanu’s love of the surrounding community.