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Art and Soccer: Belgium Wears a Magritte-Inspired Jersey at the World Cup

Great art isalso on display at the 2026 World Cup: the Belgian national team is taking the world stage with a renewed identity that brings together art, culture, and soccer. The Red Devils’ new away jersey, unveiled by Adidas and the Royal Belg...
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Rome Scraps Plans for the Bioclimatic Tree in Piazza dei Cinquecento

Rome has scrapped theBioclimatic Tree project planned for Piazza dei Cinquecento: the large structure that was supposed to be built across from Roma Termini Station will not be constructed. Following technical and economic assessments, Rome City Hall...
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Venice: The Giorgio Cini Foundation’s Borges Labyrinth Has Been Restored; It Reopens More Accessible and Refreshed

The Giorgio Cini Foundation has announced the completion of the restoration of the Borges Labyrinth, one of the most famous siteson the Island of San Giorgio in Venice, dedicated to the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, the 40th anniversary of whos...
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New Study on the Shroud's DNA: Biological Traces Accumulated Over the Centuries Have Been Reconstructed

A new study on the Shroud of Turin, based on the sequencing of DNA found on the famous cloth, has been published in the scientific journal *Scientific Reports*, part of the Nature publishing group. The research represents a new contribution to the st...
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Tiziana D'Angelo is the new executive director of the Campi Flegrei Archaeological Park

The Campi Flegrei Archaeological Park announces the appointment of Tiziana D'Angelo, current director of the Paestum and Velia Archaeological Parks, as the Park’s deputy director. The appointment was made with the aim of ensuring administrative conti...
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Massimiliano Gioni Named New Director of the New Museum in New York

The New Museum in New York has announced the appointment of Massimiliano Gioni as the museum’s next Toby Devan Lewis Director. The Italian curator, born in 1973, will officially take office on August 1, 2026, after having held various roles at ...
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Trump Attacks the Smithsonian Again: 162-Page Dossier Against the Institution Published

In the United States , the Donald Trump administration has launched a new attack against the Smithsonian Institution, the country’s largest museum complex. On July 4, a substantial 162-page report titled *Saving America’s Story*, drafted ...
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Russian Attack on Kyiv: 800,000 Books Also Destroyed

During Russia’s attack on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on July 2, which left 31 dead and more than 100 wounded (and which was followed by another attack launched yesterday, July 6, that left 22 dead and 56 injured), Ukraine’s cultural sec...
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Farewell to Yervant Gianikian, master of experimental cinema

He passed away in Milan on July 3, at the age of 84, director, artist, and architect Yervant Gianikian, a leading figure in international experimental cinema and, together with Angela Ricci Lucchi (who passed away in 2018), a key contributor to one o...
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Villa Lante in Bagnaia: Restoration Emergency—A Petition Calling for Monitoring of the Work

A debate has flared up over the restoration of Villa Lante in Bagnaia (Viterbo)—one of Italy’s most famous historic gardens—following the completion of work funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR). The doubts and concerns wer...
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Farewell to Fausto Delle Chiaie, the pioneer of Roman street art

Fausto Delle Chiaie, considered Rome’s first true street artist and one of the pioneers of public art in Italy, passed away in Rome on July 4 at the age of 82. Born in Rome on January 23, 1944, he dedicated his entire career to bringing art out of mu...
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Notre-Dame: Restoration of the Western Rose Window and the North Facade Begins

The public agency Rebâtir Notre-Dame de Paris has announcedthe launch of two new restoration projects for the Paris cathedral. The work will focus on the large rose window on the western facade, facing the churchyard, and the entire northern fa...
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He thought he'd found a discarded painting with a beautiful frame: it was a Sorolla worth 150,000 euros

What appeared to be the disappearance of a valuable painting by Joaquín Sorolla ended happily thanks to the honesty of a man who, without realizing it, had picked up the work, thinking it was a discarded item to be thrown away. The painting wa...
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The Umberto Eco Library opens in Bologna, featuring over 32,000 volumes from his home and study

Ten years after Umberto Eco’s passing, Bologna is opening its doors to one of the most important collections of an author’s works in the contemporary world. The Eco Library has been inaugurated—a project that makes the personal collection...
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Florence: A calendar discovered that predates the Gregorian Reform by seven centuries

Research conducted by Francesco Vizza, associate researcher emeritus at the National Research Council and former director of the Institute of Organometallic Chemistry (CNR-ICCOM), has led to the identification of a calendar created in 813 that docume...
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Registration is now open for AStArte, a new national association of art historians

Membership registration is now openfor the National Association of Art Historians (AStArte), a new non-profit, nonpartisan, and non-denominational professional organization established to represent and promote the profession of art historians in Ital...
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