In the triptych of the Santissima Annunziata in Serina, Saint Nicholas of Tolentino holds a book and a cross in his hands and rests his left foot on a small transparent globe, an ancient symbol of the vanity of earthly things. The painter…
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Exhibitions Museums National Gallery of the Marches
Umberto Eco had drawn the bookcases in the abbey library—the one at the center of *The Name of the Rose*—with his own hand: shelves topped by a pediment. When Milo Manara adapted the novel into a comic book, he started with that sketch…
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Exhibitions Ancient art Museums National Picture Gallery of Bologna
In Parma, the facade of the Palazzo del Governatore tower is becoming a testing ground forcontemporary digital art. Through January 31, 2027, every day from 4 p.m. to midnight, the building overlooking Piazza Garibaldi will host UNICHE…
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Exhibitions Graphics Twentieth Century Art Xylography
What do mountains represent when they cease to be merely a subject to be painted and become the place where memory, desire, and reflections on existence converge? This is the starting point for “... le mie montagne” &ndash…
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Exhibitions Ancona Twentieth Century Twentieth Century Art
From November 19, 2026, to February 17, 2027, the LED wall at Palazzo Citterio in Milan will host “Marina Abramović Element,” a project dedicated to Marina Abramović’s digital performances, organized by the MNAD—National Museum of…
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Four hundred years after her birth, a major exhibition at Palazzo Corsini in Rome traces the life and intellectual journey of Christina of Sweden (Stockholm, 1626 – Rome, 1689), highlighting the complexity of one of the most fascinating…
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Exhibitions Florence Short-Term Rentals Tourism
Sigmund Freud’s Viennese apartment serves as the starting point for a new series of paintings by Martha Jungwirth (Vienna, 1940), the featured artist in the exhibition *Minna’s Bedroom*, scheduled from November 24, 2026, to January 22…
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Exhibitions Archaeology Sardinia
In June 1985, at Art Basel, a dentist from Salento met four leading figures in the New York graffiti scene: A-One, Rammellzee, Phase Two, and Daze. Six months later, in December, he hosted them at his country home and studio in Salento…
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A horse lying down, its body sprawled on the ground. It is neither one of Antonio Canova’s colossal horses nor one of his polished, perfect figures: it is a plaster cast that the sculptor made of the reclining animal as a study…
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Four hundred years after the completion of the large altarpiece for Brescia’s Duomo Nuovo, Palma il Giovane returns to the forefront of the city’s cultural scene. To mark the holiday season, the Zani House Museum in Cellatica…
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A pair of jeans, a white shirt, a sweatshirt. These are items that almost everyone has in their closet and that we usually don’t give a second thought to. For Andrew Bolton, curator in charge of the Costume Institute at the…
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Exhibitions Eighteenth century Gardens Madama Palace
How much space remains for what is not on display? And what happens to the works when their public presentation is suspended? These are some of the questions at the heart of *On Intrusion: Archival Interventions*, a solo exhibition by…
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Exhibitions Auctions of the week
The work of Agostino Bonalumi (Vimercate, 1935 – Desio, 2013) will be the focus of the exhibition *Agostino Bonalumi. Certain Streets in Manhattan, scheduled at the Mazzoleni Gallery in Milan from November 11, 2026, to February 6…
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Exhibitions Design Milan Triennale Triennale Milan
From November 6, 2026, to March 7, 2027, the Gallerie d'Italia in Naples will host “Angelica and Élisabeth: The Age of Women Painters,” an exhibition dedicated to Angelica Kauffmann (Chur, 1741 – Rome, 1807) and…
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Exhibitions Ancient art Five hundred Painting restoration Venice
Usually, to understand a distant era, we dig: we unearth fragments and try to reconstruct what has been lost. Federica Giulianini (Ravenna, 1990) says she wants to do the opposite. “The exhibition plays on this paradox,&rdquo…
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Exhibitions Bologna Painting Raphael Sanzio
Take a ring, cut it, twist one of the two ends, and close it again. The result is a ribbon that no longer has an inside or an outside—a continuous surface that can be traversed without ever encountering an edge. Max Bill (Winterthur, 1908…
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