The 61st edition of the Venice Art Biennale starts today, May 9, 2026, and will run until November 22, 2026. The In Minor Keys project, conceived by director Koyo Kouoh before her passing in May 2025, has been brought to fruition by her team to honor...
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we feel the duty to apologize to all of you. Especially to those who, in these hours, are searching our homepage for the "Definitive Review" of the Venice Biennale. We regret to disappoint you, but we are afraid y...
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The first images from the Venice Biennale 2026 are arriving, following the press day that preceded the three-day preview reserved for insiders. The 61st International Art Exhibition, titled In Minor Keys, will officially open to the public from May 9...
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The thirtieth edition of Miart, the international fair of modern and contemporary art directed by Nicola Ricciardi, which was hosted from April 17 to 19, 2026 in Milan's new venue in the South Wing of the Allianz MiCo, has concluded in Milan. A trans...
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He makes an appointment for me in the store of one of his colleagues, concealed in the courtyard of a nineteenth-century palace on Via Vittoria Colonna. He, Mario Bigetti, doyen of Rome's antiquarians, no longer has his own store, no longer even work...
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There was a TEFAF claim that many still remember today. It went something like this, "We sell the best contemporary art of the last 4,000 years." A brilliant line, but also the perfect summary of what this fair has represented for decades.
Born as a...
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TEFAF Maastricht returns in 2026 to the spaces of the MECC and establishes itself, as usual, as one of the leading international events dedicated to art, antiques and design. This year's edition takes place March 14-19, with invitation-only preview d...
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In February the Finestre sull'Arte website reaches almost 3million monthly visits (2,977,000 monthly visits for the month of February), surpassing 5 million page reads (5,300,000 page reads for the month of February): with great confidence we can say...
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Last days to see the 2026 edition of Modenantiquaria, the thirty-ninth of the event dedicated to high antiques that over time has assumed a stable role in the national and international fair calendar. Inaugurated last Friday, Feb. 6, with a convivial...
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The 49th edition of Arte Fiera in Bologna opens under a light of substantial interest and curiosity for the passing of the baton to the artistic direction, which sees Davide Ferri succeed Simone Menegoi: the new director has imprinted the event with ...
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If there are different prices in the art market evidently there will be different "values." Value is different from price, but it contributes to it along with other elements. But why doesn't anyone talk about it? Around the market and art fairs ther...
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A Lucrezia by Guido Reni of very high Genoese provenance, a fine product of the extreme phase of the Bolognese painter's career, has re-emerged from oblivion and has been purchased by the Ministry of Culture for the National Gallery of Liguria in Gen...
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Crumbs for culture: a 90 percent cut, or 182 million euros instead of more than 1.7 billion, on the largest part of the Ministry of Culture's strategic programming, namely the resources of the Fund for Development and Cohesion (FSC): allocations that...
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Guglielmo Emilio Aschieri, besides being a fine artist, was a kind, thoughtful and, above all, irresistibly nice man. His painting has always impressed me deeply. While moving within a traditional, solid and impeccable technique, his work was strikin...
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On December 31 of each year, Finestre Sull'Arte publishes the ranking of the best Italian exhibitions of the year just ended. Once again this year, the ranking of the best exhibitions of 2025 in Italy was decreed by a quality jury composed of more th...
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Leonor Fini (Eleonora Elena Maria Fini in Buenos Aires; Buenos Aires, 1907 - Paris in 1996) is recognized as one of the most original and independent personalities of the 20th-century art scene and is best known for her pictorial work, but in fact sh...
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