Exhibitions

Italian Renaissance Woodcuts at the British Museum: The Giorgio Cini Foundation’s Atlas on Display

Ten years of research and cataloging have culminated at the British Museum, where Italian Renaissance woodcuts are the focus of a major exhibition. The project, sponsored by the Giorgio Cini Foundation’sInstitute of Art History and curated by L...
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Vicenza: Italian Art Engages with Europe in a New Trilogy of Exhibitions

“Inspiration Europe: Artistic Dialogues Between the 19th and 20th Centuries” is launching in Vicenza —a three-year exhibition project sponsored by the City of Vicenza and dedicated to Italy’s cultural and artistic ties with Germany, France, and...
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Giuseppe Guidi, the artist beloved by d’Annunzio, on display in Alassio

From October 17 to 27,the former Anglican Church in Alassio (Savona) will host an exhibition featuring Giuseppe Guidi (1881–1931). “The Sign and Alchemy” is a retrospective exhibition dedicated to Giuseppe Guidi (Castel Bolognese, 1881 – ...
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Whistler: Dandy and Rebel—The First Dutch Retrospective on the Painter at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

An elegant and provocative artist who challenged the conventions of his time and questioned the very boundaries of art. James McNeill Whistler (Lowell, 1834 – London, 1903) is the focus of “Whistler: Dandy and Disruptor,” an exhibition that the...
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Monumental Mimmo Rotella: 25 major works from the 1980s to 2005 on display in Catanzaro

For Mimmo Rotella (Catanzaro, 1918 – Milan, 2006), tearing was never merely a gesture: removing a poster from a wall meant appropriating an existing image, taking it out of its context, and transforming it into something else. In the final deca...
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Florence and the First Wave of Globalization: Francesco Carletti’s Journey Around the World on Display

Even before the world truly became “global,” people, goods, knowledge, and cultures were already crossing the oceans along trade routes that connected distant continents. It is from this perspective that *Florence Global: The World of Fra...
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Richard Avedon: The Complete “In the American West” Series in Rome—110 Portraits

From October 9, 2026, to January 31, 2027,Palazzo Esposizioni Roma presents *Richard Avedon. In the American West, 1979–1984, an exhibition dedicated to the historic series of portraits created by American photographer Richard Avedon (1923&ndas...
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Nebojša Despotović brings 40 works exploring the craft of painting to Bassano del Grappa

THE BANK ETS Foundation—Institute for Contemporary Painting Studies in Bassano del Grappa, in the province of Vicenza—presents *The Painter’s Craft*, an exhibition dedicated to Nebojša Despotović (Belgrade, Serbia, 1982) and curated by C...
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Georg Baselitz: “Heroes” Return to London—The 1965–1966 Series on View at Thaddaeus Ropac

Georg Baselitz’s “Hero” series, created in 1965 and 1966, comes to London in an exhibition that brings together some of its most significant paintings. From October 13 to December 18, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac’s Ely House will host “Georg Baselitz: The H...
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Guido Guidi, 101 Photographs for the Centennial of the IUAV University of Venice

To mark the centennial of its founding,the IUAV University of Venice is dedicating an exhibition to Guido Guidi, a photographer who has been part of the university’s history—first as a student, then as a lab technician, and finally as a profess...
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Nearly 50 Fayum portraits on display in Rome: a major exhibition featuring rare works

The Fayum portraits—the famous faces painted on funerary panelsin ancient Egypt—are among the most celebrated images of antiquity, but in Italy they are also among the hardest to see, at least all together, given their rarity and fragility. There are...
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Alessio Nebbia: A 20th-Century Mountain Painter Rediscovered in Turin

When snow covers a landscape, it seems to take away rather than add: it erases details, softens colors, alters distances, and makes it harder to distinguish what belongs to observation from what arises from perception. It is above all in this uncerta...
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Heinz Mack Returns to Venice with 36 Paintings: Light and Color from a 95-Year-Old Artist

Now 95 years old, one of Germany’s greatest artists, Heinz Mack (Lollar, 1931), continues to explore the relationship between light, color, and form. It is precisely this exploration—developed by the German artist over more than seventy years o...
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Luigi Russolo returns to Portogruaro (Venice) with *La Musica*, on display in Italy for the first time in twenty years

Luigi Russolo returns to his hometown with an exhibition featuring some eighty works and documents, marking the return to Italy—after twenty years—of *La Musica* (1911), one of his best-known paintings. From October 18, 2026, to February 28, 2027, th...
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Svenja Deininger: Forms Poised Between Abstraction and Figuration at Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome

From October 13, 2026, to January 30, 2027, the Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome presents *On Leaning*, an exhibition of new works by the painter Svenja Deininger, focused on a painterly practice that rejects a predetermined starting point and procee...
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The Soul of Marble in Florence: Michelangelo at the Heart of Symbolist Visions

From Michelangelo’s *David* to the sculptures of Auguste Rodin and Antoine Bourdelle, and on to the interpretations of Giulio Aristide Sartorio, Leonardo Bistolfi, and Adolfo De Carolis: the Accademia Gallery in Florence is dedicating an exhibi...
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