In the November 1967 issue, "prime mover of the Arte Povera movement" Germano Celant published a manifesto entitled "Notes for a Guerrilla War," engaging political issues with the art of Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mario Merz, Giulio Paolini, Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Luciano Fabro, and Jannis Kounellis among others.Arte Povera?

On its occasion, Flash Art published texts by Douglas Crimp and artists Thomas Lawson and David Salle, highlighting the birth of the Pictures Generation.

Since 2019, she and Cristiano Seganfreddo are editors of the magazine, distributed in 87 countries, and of the publishing house that produces catalogues, essays, artists’ books and editions, with more than 300 titles.

It was described by Tony Stankus as "the confident, international journal of European and North American contemporary art" and by Publishers Weekly as a "distinguished by a cacophony of voices and congenial chaos".

[11][12] Flash Art has been the first magazine that published the works or to dedicate its covers to artists such as Marina Abramović, Vito Acconci, Matthew Barney, Vanessa Beecroft, Cecily Brown, Maurizio Cattelan, Francesco Clemente, Martin Creed, John Currin, Rineke Dijkstra, Peter Halley, Eberhard Havekost, Damien Hirst, Pierre Huyghe, Jeff Koons, Sherrie Levine, Sol LeWitt, Robert Longo, Paul McCarthy, Mariko Mori, Maurizio Nannucci, Shirin Neshat, Gabriel Orozco, Charles Ray, Pipilotti Rist, Matthew Ritchie, Anri Sala, David Salle, Thomas Scheibitz, Julian Schnabel, Rudolf Stingel, Francesco Vezzoli.

Throughout its history, the magazine had had as collaborators critics and curators internationally renowned amongst which Germano Celant, Achille Bonito Oliva, Rosalind Krauss, Francesca Alinovi, Francesco Bonami, Harald Szeemann, Nicolas Bourriaud, Dan Cameron, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Benjamin Weil e Massimiliano Gioni.

Today, the magazine has a network of more than two hundred collaborators among which writers, PHD and curators globally renowned by the art system, such as Andrea Bellini, Kenneth Goldsmith, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Quinn Latimer, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Marina Fokidis, Chus Martinez and Vanessa Murrell.