Teaching at the IPSOA Master in Law and Taxation of the International Art Markets
On 15 May 2026, at the invitation of Silvia Stabile, I taught a session for the Master in Law and Taxation of the International Art Markets, the executive program run by Scuola di Formazione IPSOA and Wolters Kluwer that has become one of the most innovative training grounds for lawyers, tax advisors, and family office professionals working with art collections.
The session was designed as a wide-angle reading of the contemporary art ecosystem, built for an audience that approaches the field from law and finance and that needs to see how the cultural side actually works.
I built it around a sequence of concrete examples of governance in public and private cultural institutions and of the founder's role in shaping their structures. The point of moving through these registers in a single session was to show how interconnected they are and how often the most consequential decisions in this field are made at the intersection of all of them.
Teaching in a Master's program that brings together law, taxation, and the market is a reminder that the questions facing museums, foundations, and private collectors today are rarely solely legal or solely curatorial. They are structural, and they reward people who can read several languages at once.
That is exactly the kind of professional this program is shaping, and it is one of the reasons I keep coming back to it.
