Luca Massimo Barbero was president of the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, from 1998 to 2001 and director of the MACRO, Rome, from 2009 to 2011. Since 2002 he has been an associate curator of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. He is currently director of the Istituto di Storia dell Arte of the Fondazione Cini, Venice.