Well-known guitarist Ace Frehley, one of the most iconic musicians of American hard rock and longtime lead guitarist for Kiss, passed away this evening in Morristown, USA, at the age of 74. Frehley had been hospitalized in intensive care for days aft...
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Casa Balla officially becomes part of the state heritage. The Ministry of Culture in fact signed this morning the deed of acquisition of Giacomo Balla's famous home-studio, located at 39B Via Oslavia in Rome, where the master of Futurism lived and wo...
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The Smithsonian Institution, one of the world's largest museum complexes based in Washington, has closed its facilities due to the federal government shutdown that began Oct. 1. The decision, announced over the weekend and as reported by Artnews maga...
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Foligno and Spoleto are presenting themselves together in the race for the title of Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2027. The two Umbrian cities have officially illustrated the guidelines of the Foligno-Spoleto in Contemporanea dossier, a project...
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An important fragment of Antonio Vivaldi's opera La Costanza Trionfante, long thought to have been lost, now returns to light thanks to the discovery of musicologist and conductor Federico Maria Sardelli, among the leading Vivaldi experts internation...
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Yesterday, Oct. 12, 2025, the anniversary of the discovery of America, at the Naval Museum in Madrid two activists, members of the collective called Futuro Vegetal, vandalized the painting titled Primer homenaje a Colón (12 de octubre de 1492)...
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Yesterday, Wednesday, Oct. 8, the complex handling operations of the famous Equestrian Monument to Gattamelata by Donatello, a Renaissance masterpiece placed on the parvis of the Basilica of St. Anthony in Padua, began. After the descent of Erasmo da...
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A new digital tool to make cultural places more open, accessible and inclusive. It is called personeper.it and is the website just launched by the Ministry of Culture's General Directorate of Museums together with the National School of Heritage and ...
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Rome commemorates, on the 30th anniversary of his death, Giulio Turcato (Mantua, 1912 - Rome, 1995), one of the most radical and inventive figures in post-World War II Italian art, with an exhibition hosted at the Giuliani Foundation for Contemporary...
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In Monteleone di Spoleto, in the heart ofUmbria, the church of San Francesco is finally accessible again after years of closure due to damage caused by the 2016 earthquake and subsequent safety checks. In fact, consolidation and restoration work on t...
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To mark the anniversary of October 7, the date ofHamas' attack on Israel in 2023, artist aleXsandro Palombo has created a mural in Milan dedicated to the memory of the victims. The work, titled October 7, The Hostages, was placed in front of the Cons...
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Those who visit the website of the National Gallery of Art in Washington these hours will find the entry "Cancelled" on all the events and exhibitions scheduled for these days: the museum has in fact closed indefinitely due to the shutdown of the U.S...
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The Baths of Caracalla present an extraordinary opportunity to discover their heritage in a completely different light. Between October 12 and November 2, Rome 's monumental complex will exceptionally open in the evening hours for a series of nine ap...
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On the night of Oct. 4-5, 2025, Rome welcomed a load of great historical and cultural value: the Scuderie del Quirinale saw the arrival of the 130 works from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo destined to give life to the exhibition Treasures of the Pharao...
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Eighty-five years after its last "descent," Erasmus of Narni, known as Gattamelata, and his horse leave the churchyard of St. Anthony's Basilica in Padua. In early October, at the end of about three years during which the statue has remained shrouded...
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The world of culture also came to a partial halt yesterday, Oct. 3, in a general strike called under the slogan "Let's block everything for Gaza." Many workers in the cultural sector joined the mobilization, leading to the partial closure of museums,...
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