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The concert of concerts, Pink Floyd's 35th anniversary in Venice

Indispensable, unique, avant-garde. We all know this, Pink Floyd, a British group founded in the 1960s, has been around since before time and even before music itself. Yet, those tunes and their presence still resonate too foreign, far too far ahead ...
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When Pisa ruled the seas. The history of the Pisan Arsenals.

For those who do not find themselves delving into the subject, it may still be mysterious or at any rate bizarre that the city of Pisa, now inland in Tuscany, about 10 km from the coast, had a glorious past on the sea, as it is known, as a Maritime R...
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Ten years ago, state museums became autonomous. What is autonomy and what has it entailed

A "revolution": this was the term that, ten years ago, in July 2014, the then Minister of Cultural Heritage Dario Franceschini used to present the reform of the ministry, which would come into force on December 10 of the same year, with the Decree of...
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Banking foundations in Tuscany: what they do for art

Tuscany, with its rich and deep-rooted artistic traditions, has always attracted to its lands artists, scholars and art lovers from all over the world, who have always found fertile ground for their ideas here, given also the strong tradition of patr...
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Why there is so much discussion about VAT on artwork, and how it works (explained well)

Ten days ago, on June 11, Gruppo Apollo, an association of antiquarians, modern and contemporary art galleries, collectors, art logistics companies and auction houses from all over Italy, issued a statement calling on the Italian government to lower ...
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Guercino in Turin: an itinerary among the works

In the strutting, superb Turin, in the sunny splendor of the Savoy square next to the Royal Palace, within the cozy halls of Palazzo Chiablese, stands a luminous and splendid exhibition, perhaps unexpected but for that reason surprising and magnifice...
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The rediscovered documentary: the film on Henri Cartier Bresson by Giorgio Bocca

Undisputed master of modern photography, portraitist, narrator of the entire history of the twentieth century, called "the eye of the century," theorist of the decisive instant, founder of the world's most famous photo agency, Magnum: definitions are...
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Tale of an evening at the Uffizi. What the museum looks like at sunset (and what visitors think of it)

It is inevitable: thinking about how many people storm the Uffizi during daylight hours can inhibit the desire to visit one of the most beautiful and important museums we have in Italy. So many people may feel discouragement and even a certain nervou...
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Venice Biennale, here's how much the pavilions cost (but so many countries prefer not to say)

How much do the national pavilions of the Venice Biennale cost? The outlay that all countries, every two years, correspond to participate in the world's leading contemporary art exhibition is no small thing: however, very few countries are willing to...
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Venice Biennale 2024, the top 10 best national pavilions in our opinion

La Biennale di Venezia is preparing to open its doors to the public for its 60th International Art Exhibition, titled Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa and produced by La Biennale di Venezia. The event will take pl...
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Here are the images of the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024

First images of the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024: our country is proposing for the 60th edition the exhibition project Due qui / To Hear by Massimo Bartolini, curated by Luca Cerizza, with the assistance of Francesca Verga. The projec...
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Venice Biennale 2024, here are the first photos of the international exhibition

First images from the Venice Biennale after press day, the day reserved for the press that anticipates the three-day preview before the major international exhibition finally opens its doors to the public (this year it will do so from April 20 to Nov...
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Miart 2024: how much do the works cost? Our selection of 15 works, with prices

The twenty-eighth edition of Miart, the international modern and contemporary art fair in Milan organized by Fiera Milano, has opened, and as has been customary for some time now at contemporary art fairs, we asked some galleries for the price of som...
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Miart 2024, the 10 best booths at Milan's contemporary art fair

Miart, Milan 's international modern and contemporary art fair organized by Fiera Milano, which is now in its 28th edition this year, the fourth directed by Nicola Ricciardi, is kicking off. In fact, from April 12 to 14, 181 galleries from 28 countr...
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In the beginning was the egg

From the Latin primitivus, "first in order of time," the term "primitive" is used to describe a period before the present. When early humans began to explore the land, seas, rivers and discover fire, their dawning was marked by a profound moment of ...
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TEFAF 2024, the world antiques fair ends. Here are the main sales with prices and photos

The closing of the 37th edition of TEFAF Maastricht last night was met with consensus among exhibitors: the fair, after the Covid years, was reborn, and during its eight days of opening (March 8 to 14: read our report here), nearly 50,000 visitors ga...
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