"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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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 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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A splendid recovered work was unveiled yesterday at the Horne Museum in Florence: it is the Siviero Cross, a panel painting by the Bolognese Lippo di Dalmasio degli Scannabecchi (Bologna, c. 1355 - 1410) named after Rodolfo Siviero (Guardistallo, 191...
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"This is a auspicious date that we will remember. A special history that for the first time is preparing to reopen to the public with the precise role of a cultural center," said Minister Alessandro Giuli on June 12 as he inaugurated Palazzo San Feli...
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In the vast and articulated panorama oftwentieth-century Italian art, Giorgio Morandi (Bologna, 1890 - 1964) and Lucio Fontana (Rosario, 1899 - Comabbio, 1968) represent two seemingly opposite poles, united, however, by a common tension toward the in...
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A treasure chest of jewels of queens and princesses whose dazzling beauty is fabled, works of art by goldsmiths from halfway across Europe, which has been admired only once since 1946. We are talking about the crown jewels of the House of Savoy: some...
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Italian museums with more than 60 million visitors, revenues that almost reached 400 million euros: numbers that, for state museums, had never been seen before this year. Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli therefore did not hesitate to speak of "the b...
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It's just art, or rather architecture, in the case of the Venice Biennale 2025, some will say. But in the international exposition, which opens this year on May 10, as in a bit of all spaces that tell the story of the world, from the Expo to the Olym...
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"Rude tourism": that's how 8 p.m. Tg1 anchor Alessio Zucchini introduced the topic, summing up with an adjective-sentence the cases that marked the May Day holiday. From butt-stabbed tourists at the Colosseum to endless queues on the Amalfi Coast, fr...
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The Upper Garda Museum (MAG) in Riva del Garda now presents itself with a profoundly renewed visit itinerary, the result of a multi-year work, the Visions on Garda project, which has involved the management, staff and local community in a process of ...
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This morning, April 21, 2025, at 7:35 a.m., Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, passed away: the first pope from the American continent in history left behind him a legacy articulated not only on a spiritual level, but also in the cultural and ...
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Serendipity, the British would say. It is the word they use to refer to those totally unexpected discoveries, exceeding expectations, that come when you were looking for something else. It is more than a fortuitous finding: it is a surprising outcome...
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Starting April 9, 2025, the United States will introduce a 20 percent tariff on a wide range of imports from the European Union. It's one of the first muscular moves of Donald Trump's second term, billed as an "economic liberation day," but one that ...
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From April 4-6, 2025, Milan returns to the center stage ofcontemporary art with the 29th edition of miart, the international fair that brings together artists, gallery owners, collectors and enthusiasts from around the world. Hosted atAllianz MiCo, t...
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In Calban, Romagna, there is a luthier who collects resin from trees. He personally fetches it in Trentino to build his finest instruments, Italian guitars and violas, the old-fashioned way. He, Elvis Moro, uses not only resin but also animal glues a...
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