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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Stefano Arienti Archive Association (E.T.S.) was founded in Milan in January 2026 with the goal of preserving, studying, promoting, and disseminating knowledge of Stefano Arienti’s work. The organization’s first public project is the ...
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The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg has decided to suspend all archaeological expeditions to Russian-occupied Crimea, postponing fieldwork until further notice. The decision comes at a time of high tension on the peninsula, which was unilaterally ...
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An important work housed at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, *Hôpital Saint-Paul à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence*, a painting created by Vincent van Gogh in 1889, is the subject of a restitution claim filed by 98-year-old Klaus ...
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The National Association of Art Historians – National Association of Art Historians - AStArte (here is our interview with Silvia Mazza, President of AStArte) has expressed concern over the absence of the “technical art historian” position in th...
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Following Tiziana Maffei, who led the Royal Palace of Caserta for seven years, the museum has a new interim director: the position has been entrusted to Antonio Tarasco, the current Director General of Archives, a role he has held since January 8, 20...
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