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# Museum Plans to Burn 1,000 Art Works to Protest Cuts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/casoria-contemporary-art-museum-art-war/
- Published: 2012-04-18T23:17:16.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:19:12.000Z
- Description: Various news services are reporting that a museum in Italy is waging an "art war" in protest of funding cuts and they've started burning 1,000 artworks.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: News, Funding, Italy, Naples, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

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CCAM director Antonio Manfredi watching the fire consume a painting during yesterday's inaugural episode of the "Art War." (via BBC)

Various news services are reporting that a museum in Italy is waging an “art war” in protest of funding cuts and they’ve started burning 1,000 artworks. Antonio Manfredi, of the [Casoria Contemporary Art Museum](http://www.casoriacontemporaryartmuseum.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) in Naples, set fire to the first painting yesterday, Tuesday, April 17\. He plans to burn three paintings a week. All the works are being burned with the permission of the artists, many of who have donated the works specifically for the purpose.

Italian institutions, according to [BBC](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17754129?ref=hyperallergic.com), are particularly vulnerable and the Maxxi Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome said its funding had been cut by 43% in 2011.