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Robert Crumb's First Italian Exhibition Is at Naples' Maschio Angioino Through August 2026
"Cattivi pensieri," the first Italian show dedicated to the underground comics artist, runs at Castel Nuovo through 31 August 2026.
Naples' first Robert Crumb exhibition
Castel Nuovo — the medieval fortress on Piazza Municipio that everyone in Naples calls the Maschio Angioino — is hosting "Cattivi pensieri," the first exhibition in Italy dedicated entirely to Robert Crumb, the American cartoonist who effectively invented underground comics in 1960s San Francisco and created Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural. It opened 27 May and runs through 31 August 2026, produced by the Comune di Napoli with COMICON as the flagship event of this year's COMICON OFF programme.
The show gathers more than 100 pieces from Crumb's archive — around fifty original panels, illustrations and etchings, alongside reproductions, comics, records and publications spanning his career from Zap Comix onward. It's arranged in four sections, the last of which pairs Crumb's work against paintings by Pacecco De Rosa, a 17th-century Neapolitan painter — an unexpected line drawn between two very different eras' takes on the grotesque and the human body.
How much does it cost and when is it open?
The exhibition ticket doubles as entry to the castle itself: €15 full price, €10 for residents of Naples and its metropolitan-area municipalities, €5 or free with an Artecard depending on the card held, and free for anyone under 18. Opening hours run Monday to Saturday, 9:00 to 18:00, with last admission at 17:30; the castle is closed to visitors on Sundays, aside from occasional special openings worth checking for on the Comune di Napoli's site before planning a Sunday trip.
Worth the detour if you weren't planning a museum
Maschio Angioino sits right on Piazza Municipio, a two-minute walk from the Municipio stop on metro Linea 1 and from the ferry terminals at Molo Beverello — genuinely one of the easiest detours to fit between a morning in the centro storico and an afternoon on the Lungomare, rather than a special trip of its own. With about a month left before it closes, a weekday morning is the better time to go: the castle's ticket line can build up by midday in high season, and arriving before 11:00 avoids most of it. First reported by ANSA and the Comune di Napoli, with exhibition details confirmed by Napoli COMICON.
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