The 90th edition of MIDA, the Florence International Handicrafts Exhibition, was presented at the headquarters of the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy, in the presence of Minister Adolfo Urso. The event, organized by Firenze Fiera with the supp...
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The City of the Sassi, Matera, is Mediterranean Capital of Culture and Dialogue 2026: a title with the city of Tetouan, Morocco, for the entire year 2026. The recognition will be animated by the Terre Immerse program, which aims to enhance the deep c...
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The City of Cento has published the call for papers for the second edition of the International Essay Prize named after Sir Denis Mahon, renewing the link between the Emilian city and the English scholar, who was its honorary citizen. The initiative ...
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The Central Pavilion at the Giardini of the Venice Biennale has been completely renovated, following a major redevelopment. The project was made possible thanks to public funding made available by the Italian state through the Ministry of Culture, as...
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Twelve meters high, on the vault of Longhena's Scalone in the monumental complex of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Valentin Lefèvre 's The Dream of Jacob (1642-1677) becomes legible again today after a restoration that has restored to the wor...
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The Manifattura Tabacchi district gets a new event space: MOTEL. Located on the ground floor of building B3, the heart of the Florentine industrial complex, the project was created as a flexible container, designed to host exhibitions, happenings and...
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A thick column of dark smoke was spotted above Venice this morning. Around 10 a.m., an alarm was triggered at the lagoon fire department's operations center for a fire that had developed on the roof of the Serbia Pavilion in the Giardini at the Venic...
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Ancona has been proclaimed Italian Capital of Culture 2028. The announcement was made on Wednesday, March 18, 2026 by Minister Alessandro Giuli during the official ceremony held in the Spadolini Hall of the Ministry of Culture, in the presence of th...
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Escalona Castle, in the municipality of the same name in the province of Toledo, Spain, and with more than seven centuries of history, lost one of its eight albarran towers on the morning of Saturday, March 15, 2026. The collapse occurred at 10:40 a....
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The Colosseum Archaeological Park has inaugurated the new layout and redevelopment of the archaeological area of the southern ambulatories of the Colosseum. This is a space that for a long time had remained in the late 19th-century arrangement, which...
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The role of art historians in Italian state museums is increasingly marginal compared to the needs of protection and enhancement of the national cultural heritage. This is the complaint made by CISDA - Comitato Idonei Storici dell'Arte, which return...
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Gallery owner Carlo Frittelli, a prominent figure in Florentine art and culture, died yesterday in Florence at the age of 91. Not only a gallery owner but also an artist and collector, Frittelli was for decades a point of reference for the Italian co...
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The identity of Banksy, the world's most famous and mysterious street artist, has been the subject of speculation for decades. Now, a lengthy investigation by Reuters, authored by journalists Simon Gardner, James Parson and Blake Morrison, with photo...
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The controversy over Russia's presence at the Venice Biennale is enriched by a new chapter. After the political and diplomatic tensions of the last few days, culminating with the request for resignation made by Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli to th...
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New political clash around the Venice Biennale and Russia's participation in the next edition of the event (on the subject read also the editorial by Federico Giannini, editor of Finestre sull'Arte). In fact, Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli has ask...
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Seventy years after its detachment imposed by World War II damage, Francesco Traini 's Crucifixion returns to its original place on the wall of the Monumental Cemetery in Piazza del Duomo in Pisa. TheOpera della Primaziale Pisana has organized a stud...
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