The Center for Italian Modern Art (Cima), an art museum and research center in the Soho neighbourhood of Manhattan, announced on Friday (14 June) that it would close its doors permanently on 22 June. Its current exhibition, Nanni Balestrini: Art as Political Action —One Thousand and One Voices—the first stateside retrospective of the Italian experimental visual artist and novelist—will be Cima's last.

Founded in 2013 by Laura Mattioli, an Italian art historian, collector and curator, Cima was intended to promote both scholarly and public engagement with Modern and contemporary Italian art. In that time it mounted 13 exhibitions, many of which turned a spotlight on major figures in Italian modern art who had rarely been exhibited in North America.