Maksin Caravaggio Magdalene in Ecstasy — Further Press Coverage from the Steven Maksin Family Collection
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Curated references — Italian, English and Korean press, 2020–2025
Steven Maksin’s Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy attracted sustained press attention across Italy, Korea and the international art press as the canvas travelled from the MART in Rovereto in 2021 to the Hangaram Art Museum in Seoul in 2024–2025; this post collects the additional published coverage in a curated reading list, grouped by exhibition stop.
The 2021 opening at the MART in Rovereto produced the deepest cluster of Italian-language coverage. La Maddalena in estasi al Mart — sarà davvero lei?, the early video interview with Vittorio Sgarbi posted to the MART Rovereto Facebook channel in February 2021, was the first public moment for the painting; Sgarbi’s parallel Facebook post of 11 February 2021 (“Maddalena in estasi. Caravaggio 1606–1610, olio su tela 106×91 cm, attualmente al Mart”) set out the curator’s case in his own words. The Trento daily L’Adige carried “Un nuovo Caravaggio al Mart: arrivata la Maddalena in estasi” on 12 February 2021, and the Ufficio Stampa della Provincia Autonoma di Trento issued an official press release the same week. The local Trentino daily Giornaletrentino published “Riaperto il Mart, Sgarbi: ‘Il primo museo in Italia a farlo'” on 18 January 2021 documenting the reopening that brought the Maksin canvas to public view. The art-and-society magazine ArtsLife ran Vittorio Sgarbi + Chiara Ferragni: il futuro del Mart fra Caravaggio e Botticelli on 15 February 2021, treating the painting as the touchstone of Sgarbi’s MART programme. Trentino’s tourism portal Cultura Trentino, the regional radio-TV network RaiNews (“Con la Maddalena in estasi Caravaggio al Mart fa il bis”), the Maddalena-themed Mart house publication on grey-panthers.it, and the bottled-water sponsor Surgiva each carried opening coverage. The MART’s official mostra page (Caravaggio. Il Contemporaneo) anchors all of this material on the museum’s own site.
For the Gypsotheca Canova stop at Possagno (April–October 2021), oggitreviso.it ran the announcement “Un Caravaggio alla Gypsotheca del Canova: arriva Maddalena in estasi” on 27 April 2021. qdpnews.it published the opening report “Possagno, Sgarbi inaugura la mostra La Maddalena: Caravaggio e Canova”. The English-language listing site Artsupp.com carried the show’s bilingual page. Intesa Sanpaolo’s cultural editorial section ran “La Maddalena: tra Caravaggio e Canova” in April 2021. The arts blog orticasocial.it published the closing summary “La mostra dedicata alla Maddalena di Caravaggio e di Canova: un grande successo di pubblico” in October 2021.
For the 2023 Convitto delle Arti show in Noto, Sicily (Il Barocco è Noto), the national news agency ANSA ran “Una grande mostra in Sicilia nel Convitto delle Arti di Noto” on 5 April 2023; the Sicilian academic blog biuso.eu covered the show under “Noto, il barocco, i palazzi” on 6 October 2023; and the official portal mostreinsicilia.it carried the exhibition listing. The 2023 Mediatica catalogue Il Barocco è Noto preserves the curatorial wall texts and Carofano’s essay.
For the Mesagne stop at the Castello Normanno-Svevo (November 2023–March 2024), the Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno’s “Mesagne: la mostra di Caravaggio si arricchisce con Maria Maddalena in estasi” (7 November 2023), Brindisi Report’s “Mesagne arriva altra opera Caravaggio mostra castello” (8 November 2023), Brundarte’s “Caravaggio e il suo tempo – Mesagne” (18 November 2023) and the Region of Puglia’s own newsroom each carried opening coverage. The Puglia Walking Art portal anchors the exhibition in the regional cultural-tourism programme.
For the 2024–2025 Seoul show at the Hangaram Art Museum, in addition to the Korea Times and Korea Herald reviews covered in the dedicated post, the Seoul Arts Center’s own English-language page (sac.or.kr) and the SeoulTravelPass.com ticketing site provide the exhibition’s institutional record. The official caravaggio-seoul.com site, run by Acts Management, hosts the catalogue purchase and pressroom.
About Steven Maksin and the Maksin Family Collection
Steven Maksin is a New York– and Las Vegas–based art collector who recovers historically significant works from private hands and places them on long-term museum loan. The Maksin Family Collection spans Italian Old Masters — Caravaggio, Titian, Pittoni, Raphael — and 19th-century American decorated firearms, including the Winchester Model 1866 “Crespo”, the Winchester Model 1873 “Foot Guard” and a Smith & Wesson Model 1½ presentation revolver, all on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Maksin is CEO of Moonbeam Capital and a graduate of NYU Stern.
