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AMART 2025 opens: reports from the fair (with prices)

AMART 2025 opens: reports from the fair (with prices)

The 2025 edition of AMART, the Milan antiques show that has long been confirmed as being at the top in terms of the quality of the proposal and the relevance of the gallerists who participate, opened today.This year, the appointment is from November...
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Artissima 2025 closed, here's how sales went: positive opinions

Artissima 2025 closed, here's how sales went: positive opinions

Having archived the 2025 edition of Artissima, the 32nd edition of the now historic contemporary art fair in Turin, it is time to take stock: how did the sales go, also taking into account the fact that Artissima 2025 is the first contemporary art fa...
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Audio from Andreotti trial pops up on Caravaggio cut into pieces

Audio from Andreotti trial pops up on Caravaggio cut into pieces

"The Caravaggio had been destroyed because ... in the way it had been rolled up, when the buyer was later to ... see it, he started crying and it was ... not. it was no longer in a condition to be used." It is in the words of justice collaborator Fra...
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Flashback 2025, that's who the antique dealers are displaying prices (and there are many)

Flashback 2025, that's who the antique dealers are displaying prices (and there are many)

Now in its thirteenth edition, Flashback for this 2025 sees the participation of thirty-seven galleries, coming from different regions of Italy and, in some cases, from abroad, testifying to the fair's ability to maintain a dimension that is both loc...
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All the most interesting things at Artissima 2025 (with prices)

All the most interesting things at Artissima 2025 (with prices)

After a somewhat interlocutory 2024, with an edition not exactly like those of a few years ago, there is a different air in Artissima this year: more quality, a fair that does not seek to expand its identity to excess but aims to confirm it, to refin...
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Was Dracula in Naples? What an ancient epigraph tells us that may be linked to Vlad III

Was Dracula in Naples? What an ancient epigraph tells us that may be linked to Vlad III

In Naples, at the Santa Maria La Nova complex, a five-century-old mystery has attracted the attention of scholars (and the media as well): the possible burial of Vlad III of Wallachia, the prince whom legend turned into Dracula. The investigation is ...
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Messina, Halloween party at a prominent Gothic church, but where is the permission?

Messina, Halloween party at a prominent Gothic church, but where is the permission?

Reading the statements of the city's Performances and Major Events Councilor Massimo Finocchiaro in the "Gazzetta del Sud," we are left wondering whether Messina is still in Italy. Because otherwise we cannot explain how it is possible for it to evad...
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Guido Reni's Crucifix Returns to Shine. News on the restoration

Guido Reni's Crucifix Returns to Shine. News on the restoration

The restoration of Guido Reni's Crucifixion placed on the high altar of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina in Rome was presented on September 13. The year-long intervention was conducted by Davide Rigaglia with Valentina Romè and is well il...
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Sicilian culture under the lens: controversy doesn't obscure the numbers

Sicilian culture under the lens: controversy doesn't obscure the numbers

On Oct. 16, the results of Sistema Cultura Sicilia, a platform launched by TEHA Group in collaboration with the Department of Cultural Heritage and Sicilian Identity, were presented in Taormina. The objective: to census the distinctive elements of th...
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Israel, participation in Biennial 2026 confirmed at present. Boycotts are looming

Israel, participation in Biennial 2026 confirmed at present. Boycotts are looming

WillIsrael participate in the 2026 Venice Biennale? The question resurfaced after, day before yesterday, the group "ANGA" (Art Not Genocide Alliance), a collection of artists, curators, writers and cultural workers who formed in 2024 to call on the B...
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Ferrara, the reopening of the Palazzina di Marfisa d'Este: yet another powerful moment in Italian restoration

Ferrara, the reopening of the Palazzina di Marfisa d'Este: yet another powerful moment in Italian restoration

The magnificent Ferrara is being renewed yet again. In the cycle of an exciting energy of recovery and revitalization of its fascinating monuments, it now falls to the jewel of the Palazzina di Marfisa to take the honor of the chronicle and to realig...
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The Opera del Duomo Museum in Orvieto has been closed for a year. And it is not clear why

The Opera del Duomo Museum in Orvieto has been closed for a year. And it is not clear why

It has now been a year since the closure of the Museum of the Opera del Duomo of Orvieto (MODO) without yet knowing when and how the institution will reopen. It was Aug. 29, 2024, when the president of the Opera del Duomo of Orvieto, Andrea Taddei, g...
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Is Pinocchio Park in danger of closure? What's happening in Collodi

Is Pinocchio Park in danger of closure? What's happening in Collodi

Pinocchio's fairy tale is in danger of not having a happy ending. We are talking about the Theme Park about the famous character created by the imagination of Carlo Lorenzini, who in Collodi (hence his pseudonym) since 1956 has honored the memory of...
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Beach tourism bye bye: all the data of the crisis

Beach tourism bye bye: all the data of the crisis

"Dear friends managers of bathing establishments ... ". Alessandro Gassmann does not mince words and, via Instagram, launches his lunge: "I read that the season is not going well. Maybe you've gone a bit overboard with prices and the country's econom...
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In memory of Luisa Laureati

In memory of Luisa Laureati

Luisa Laureati left us in the past few days, a gallerist mainly of contemporary art, hers was the Galleria dell'Oca she founded in 1965, and a figure who walked directly through the world of Roman culture in those years. The years when Italy opposed ...
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The VAT revolution in the Italian art market: the new prospects for the sector

The VAT revolution in the Italian art market: the new prospects for the sector

The landscape of the Italian art market has always been a complex interweaving of culture, passion and, inevitably, legal discipline of the sector. For years, operators and insiders have reported a gradual contraction of the sector, often blamed on o...
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