The war in Iran has the cultural world worried, and not only because of the damage Iran's cultural heritage is already suffering: there is apprehension in France about one of the most ambitious museum projects in decades, namely the Louvre Abu Dhabi....
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The Louvre Museum is embarking onthe most impressive and ambitious restoration project ever undertaken by the Department of Painting: the 24 monumental canvases by Peter Paul Rubens that make up the famous Maria de' Medici Cycle will be restored. Thi...
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Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli visited Sotheby's headquarters in New York yesterday, where he was able to admire for the first time Antonello da Messina'sEcce Homo, recently purchased by the General Directorate of Museums for the sum of $14.9 m...
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Gino Paoli died today at the age of 91, his family announced in a note requesting strict confidentiality. The singer-songwriter passed away in Genoa, leaving behind an artistic legacy that spanned more than 60 years of song history.
Paoli was one of...
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The historic Palace of the Pontifical Belgian College is for sale in Rome, a few steps from the Quirinale, a 17th-century building of extraordinary historical, artistic and architectural significance. The palace is peraltr directly linked to the figu...
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The city of Zurich has decided to transfer to the Federal Republic of Nigeria the ownership of eleven works from the Kingdom of Benin that are stored at the Museum Rietberg. The decision, formalized last Friday, March 20, is a significant step in the...
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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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