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Restoration and new life for Brescia's Roman Theater: David Chipperfield's project

A new future is being prepared for Brescia's Roman Theater. On Tuesday, April 8, in the Auditorium of the Santa Giulia Museum, the preliminary restoration and re-functionalization project signed by architect David Chipperfield, commissioned by Fondaz...
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Colosseum ticket scandal. CoopCulture fined 7 million euros.

A fine of nearly 20 million euros has been imposed by theAntitrust Authority (AGCM) on the Società Cooperativa Culture (CoopCulture) and six international tour operators for serious violations in the system of selling admission tickets to the ...
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Rome, Arturo Martini's Minerva daubed during feminist demonstration. It had just been restored

In Rome, Arturo Martini 's Minerva that stands in front ofLa Sapienza University was scarred during a feminist demonstration held Thursday right in front of the entrance to the university city. Beginning at 2 p.m., two thousand people gathered in Pia...
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Paris metro bans Hockney exhibition posters: artist is pictured smoking

No advertising, in the Paris metro, for the David Hockney exhibition scheduled at the Fondation Louis Vuitton from April 9 to August 31, curated by Norman Rosenthal. The reason? In the image, the popular British painter, who will turn 88 next July 9,...
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Spain, gallery owner investigated for selling painting passing it off as Caravaggio

A painting that was sold by a Spanish art dealer to one of her clients as a work attributed to Caravaggio is at the center of a court case in Spain. This was revealed by the newspaper El Confidencial, which recounts the details of the affair, dating...
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Minecraft Education brings students to St. Peter's Basilica with "Peter is Here"

Exploring St. Peter's Basilica in the world of the video game Minecraft? Yes, it's possible. The Minecraft Education platform, in collaboration with St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City and Microsoft, is launching Peter is Here, an initiative aimed at ...
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US, Trump administration closes the National Museum of the Environment: the reason? "It costs too much"

The National Environmental Museum and Education Center, a museum dedicated to U.S. environmental history located inside theEnvironmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) headquarters in Washington, D.C. Its closure was decreed by Lee Zeldin, the federal ag...
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Naples, MANN launches contest to get photos for its campaigns: controversy ensues

There is controversy over a public notice by the National Archaeological Museum of Naples seeking young photographers... for free! The museum published a notice yesterday announcing its intention to put in place initiatives to involve the public in i...
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Bolzano, carabinieri find and return eight valuable archaeological finds

On the morning of April 2, 2025, the Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale (TPC) unit in Venice returned eight valuable ceramic artifacts, dating from between the 11th and 6th centuries B.C., to the Provincial Cultural Heritage Office in Bolzano. T...
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Farewell to Val Kilmer, iconic actor of 1980s-90s American cinema

Farewell to Val Kilmer: the actor from Top Gun, The Doors , and Batman Forever, one of the actor-symbols of U.S. cinema between the 1980s and 1990s, leaves us prematurely at age 65. He passed away in Los Angeles from complications of pneumonia, but h...
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Christophe Cherix new MoMA director after three decades under Glenn Lowry's leadership

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) announced today that, after an intensive six-month international search, the Board of Trustees has unanimously made the decision to appoint Christophe Cherix as the new David Rockefeller Director. Cherix will take offi...
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Brescia sees the birth of MUM, Italy's first Metro Urban Museum

An unprecedented art experience is about to come to life in Brescia. Starting April 1, 2025, the Lombard city will welcome the Metro Urban Museum (MUM), the first urban art museum integrated into the Italian metro network. Located in the Via Magnolin...
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It's bitter Miyazaki for ChatGPT: Are Studio Ghibli-style fake images infringing copyright?

Comments that Hayao Miyazaki, the great Japanese animation director, uttered in 2016 to comment on whether a machine could produce works of art are making a comeback these hours. "I am deeply disgusted," Miyazaki said. "I would never want to incorpor...
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Florence, keyboxes of downtown rooming houses removed: now penalties for those who do not comply with ban

The keybox removal operation in the historic center of Florence has been completed. As of Feb. 25, 2025, the Municipal Police removed 187 devices from the streets of theUNESCO area, thus completing the intervention envisaged by the City Council resol...
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Trump signs executive order on Smithsonian: "no divisive exhibits, will have to instill pride"

A new executive order signed on March 27, 2025 by President Donald Trump is causing much discussion in the United States : titled Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History ("Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History"), the order aims to rem...
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European center for cultural heritage sciences established. The headquarters is in Florence

E-RIHS - European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science(www.e-rihs.eu) provides technologically advanced tools and specialized expertise to explore the secrets of the colors in an ancient painting, analyze the composition of historic textiles ...
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