At the heart of this issue of Rivista di Estetica are the status of novelty and the various figures of what belongs to the category of the new: the innovative, unclassified, unexpected, unrecognizable, and so on, as well as the possibilities of the new, its creation, production, or discovery. We aim to consider what is most difficult to reflect, because it is not there or not yet there, or else successfully evades any projection and thematization. How does the new manifest and appear? What is the relationship between the new and change? How can change occur, and when does it become the new? What is new within the novel, or what is novel within the new? How do novelty, transformation, and surprise relate? What defines the new in the arts? And how can we develop a phenomenology of ontological novelty?