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Box in a suitcase, Marcel Duchamp's portable museum

"Everything important I have ever done could fit in a small suitcase," declared Marcel Duchamp (Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp; Blainville-Crevon, 1887 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1968). In fact, between 1935 and 1941 the artist worked on a particular project ...
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Verona, new projects and exhibition space at the Chapter Library

The Verona Chapter Library Foundation, established in 2019 to ferry into the future the oldest library in the world still in activity (documented with certainty since the year 517 A.D.), is developing a complex and multifaceted project that sees mill...
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The museum is pleasure, health and well-being

Everyone seeks to be well: yearning for emotional and social well-being is a thought that belongs to every human being. The aspiration to improve the conditions of one's existence, the ambition for a prestigious professional career and an increase in...
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Amart 2023, high-quality antiques in Milan: a report (with prices)

A fifth edition of Amart is truly top-notch. The Milan antiques fair-market, held this year at the Museo della Permanente from Nov. 8 to 12, aims to become a landmark event for enthusiasts and collectors from Italy and beyond, who at the exhibition o...
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The 10 best booths at Artissima 2023

What are the best booths at Artissima? Turin's contemporary art fair, scheduled for November 3 to 5, is preparing for the weekend, during which the Oval will be stormed by the public who will enter to see the best of international contemporary art pr...
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How much do the works at Artissima 2023 cost? Our selection of 15 works, with prices

Kicking off the 30th edition of Artissima: from Nov. 2-5, Turin 's contemporary art fair will draw thousands of visitors to the city. This year's theme is Relations of Care, a concept developed in a recent essay by Brazilian anthropologist Renzo Tadd...
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All the trends at Artissima 2023. What the 30th edition of the Turin fair looks like.

The 30th edition of Artissima kicks off today: the contemporary art fair in Turin, born in 1994, this year runs from November 3 to 5 and is directed for the second year in a row by Luigi Fassi. The promise is to be an experimental, research and "cutt...
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From Canaletto to the Futurists, the best of Flashback 2023

Eleventh year for Flashback, Turin 's ancient and contemporary art fair founded in 2013, which for the second year in a row is set up in the spaces of Turin's former brefotrofio, at Corso Giovanni Lanza 75, a building recently redeveloped and become ...
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What happened to the masterpieces of the Agnelli Collection?

Can a mother go against her children? Can Sotheby 's beat a fake painting at auction for $16 million? Can the 'Italian royal family' have accumulated works of art by breaking the relevant Italian laws? Is it possible that the superintendencies have n...
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Environmental sustainability of museums: how to reduce impact in historic buildings

The Rome Declaration, with its 32 points summarizing the position of the G20 Culture, devotes much attention to environmental sustainability by recognizing the important role of culture in combating climate change. Awareness is taken that the environ...
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A fourteenth-century convent for sale in Cagli. What will become of it?

Cagli, in the Marche region, is one of the Italian cities of art called "minor," but which are not such. It is in fact a beautiful city, made so also by the urban redevelopment and restoration, that is, valorization, carried out in recent years by th...
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The Banksy of Venice will be restored. The case explained well

The Migrant Child ("Migrant child"), Banksy 's work decorating the facade of a palace in Venice, located near Campo San Pantalon in the Dorsoduro sestiere, overlooking the rio Novo, will finally be restored. Banksy had created the work between May 8 ...
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A happy time for Guercino, time for exhibitions and rediscoveries

The Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna offers citizens and international culture an exhibition on Guercino (Cento, 1591 - Bologna, 1666). A review toward an anthology of works that place the master at the center of seventeenth-century European painting ...
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Madrid, a look at the collections of the Royal Collections Gallery

It is the latest addition among Spanish museums: the Galería de las Colleciones Reales, the Gallery of Royal Collections, opened its doors on June 29, in a large building carved out of the rock beneath the Royal Palace in the heart of Madrid's...
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Museum social responsibility: the museum for all

Social Responsibility responds to the needs of a museum that, in addition to the demands of the Faro Convention, cannot ignore the stress, states of anxiety, emotional disorientation, frustration and confusion that the pandemic has left in us. The ne...
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How Spanish contemporary art is alive: the best of Apertura Madrid 2023

As many as 56 galleries scattered throughout Madrid, exhibitions by national and international artists, four days of previews, openings, guided tours and more: the 14th edition of Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend, the weekend of contemporary art from ...
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