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Berthe Weill, the rebel who discovered Picasso and the avant-garde before anyone else. What the exhibition looks like

Today, if we think about it, it is not unusual to come across female art gallerists: they welcome visitors to their galleries, in Italy as well as abroad, on a par with their fellow gallery owners, and even at the many art fairs that take place throu...
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Getting wrapped up in Chiharu Shiota's invisible textures: what the exhibition at MAO Turin looks like

There has been talk on more than one occasion on these pages about the increasing presence in exhibitions, biennials and art fairs of spectacular installations, of works that are immediately striking for their visual power but are often fragile or su...
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The Italiens de Paris: the Belle Époque told at Palazzo Blu. What the Pisa exhibition is like

It could have been titled Les Italiens de Paris the Belle Époque exhibition currently running at Palazzo Blu in Pisa until April 7, 2026, and indeed the subtitle reads "Italian Painters in Paris in the Age of Impressionism." In fact, the prota...
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Inside the Museum of the Etruscan Academy of Cortona: the museum as told by its technical committee

From the heights of Cortona, a town overlooking the Valdichiana, the MAEC - Museum of the Etruscan Academy and the City of Cortona - continues to tell, with an ever new voice, one of the most fascinating stories of antiquity: that of the Etruscans. H...
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Verona, the Museum of Castelvecchio according to Carlo Scarpa

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the restoration and new layout carried out by Carlo Scarpa (Venice, 1906 - Sendai, 1978) at the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona in 2014, Alba Di Lieto and Alberto Vignolo edited and edited the publicati...
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Peter della Vecchia's Alchemists: the uncanny allure of the grotesque

Grimaces and disproportionate bodies, exaggerated expressions, protruding noses and gnarled hands: these are the elements that strike the viewer at first glance in the painting depicting the three alchemists at work by Pietro della Vecchia (Vicenza, ...
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This is what the new layout of Siena's Pinacoteca Nazionale will look like: Marco Magni talks

At the Siena National Picture Gallery, work has begun on energy efficiency and the removal of architectural barriers that will last until June 2026, an opportunity, along with the movement of works, to rethink the museum's new layout in order to brin...
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Art history in reel format: more inclusion or risk of superficiality?

Scrolling through Instagram or Tik Tok, one notices a trend that is now rampant: that of wanting to simplify, to make everything easier, even studying: in fact, there are many content creators who have devoted themselves to simplifying school subject...
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