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A new, immersive and itinerant anti-mafia museum will open in Palermo this month to commemorate Italy's battle against organized crime.

Until recently, this city was infamous as one of the world's organised crime capitals. Warring mobsters gunned down rivals in the streets and built ugly high-rise apartments with public funds while much of the historic centre was left to crumble.

Organized by fondazione falcone, the 'spazi capaci' features four major public artworks that denounce the mob while honoring its victims.

A public art campaign in Palermo, Sicily, is reminding residents of the city’s grim Mafia years, and is encouraging them to resist creeping organized crime influence.

The ongoing Gazing of Tranquility: Italian Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition at Zhejiang Art Museum

Fascist and communist dictators recognized the power of cinema early on. DW discusses this with author Peter Demetz, who looked into how Hitler, Goebbels, Mussolini, Lenin and Stalin dealt with the medium.

Andrea Buglisi has created a 30-m high mural of assassinated judge Giovanni Falcone Courtesy of Alessandro De Lisi Four major public art commissions honouring victims of the Mafia have been unveiled in Palermo, marking the start of a three year project which aims to unite the local community in their collective opposition to organised crime. Entitled Spazi Capaci, the project includes the first ever contemporary art exhibition in the high-security bunker of the Ucciardon...