Policy

Putin-ErdoÄŸan talks, they also talked about culture (and the course on Dostoevsky)

A telephone conversation was held this morning between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan. In addition to points concerning politics and the conflict in Ukraine (Putin let it be known that Russia will stop ...
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Franceschini reiterates: private individuals are key to heritage protection

The role of private individuals is crucial in protecting the country's cultural heritage. This was said today by Culture Minister Dario Franceschini during his speech at the presentation of the restoration of the fresco of theAurora by Guido Reni (16...
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Mattarella re-elected President of the Republic. All the times he spoke about art and culture

With 759 votes out of a total of 983 present and voting, Sergio Mattarella was re-elected President of the Republic. He is the second most voted president in Republican history (the record is still that of Sandro Pertini, elected with 832 votes). "I ...
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Quirinal, vote-bursts include two for Alberto Angela and one for Barbero

As is often the case during voting for the election of the President of the Republic, there was no shortage of odd votes during the first ballot for the 2022 Election of the President of the Italian Republic: among them, two went to Alberto Angela, t...
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Louvre furious with Marine Le Pen: shoots video for her candidacy without permission

The Louvre did not at all like the video, pompously titled "Declaration of the Louvre," that Marine Le Pen shot in front of the Paris museum's Pyramid to launch her campaign for the 2022 French presidential election. In fact, the problem is that the ...
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Art is not an accessory, culture is our cement: David Sassoli and culture

David Sassoli, president of the European Parliament, left us tonight: a professional journalist (he was deputy director of TG1 from 2006 to 2009) before entering politics and becoming a member of the European Parliament for the Pd for three c...
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Budget Law 2022, here are all the measures for culture

With 355 votes in favor and 45 against, the House of Representatives gave the final green light to the Budget Law 2022. The text had been approved by the Senate between Dec. 23 and 24 and has now received the House's final yes. The 2022 maneuver incl...
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Cases of the Bassano and Gérard exported from Italy end up in Parliament

The cases of Jacopo Bassano 's Miracle of the Quails and François Gérard 's Portrait of Camillo Borghese recently exported from Italy with the authorization of the competent superintendencies have ended up in Parliament, with two question...
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MiC, there's a problem: NRP funds are coming in but lack of staffing

The Ministry of Culture has a problem: funds from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) will be arriving soon, but the ministry is moving in a seriously understaffed situation. In fact, the MiC will manage a package worth 6.675 bil...
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Here's who Germany's new culture minister is and why she could start a revolution

The new German government led by new Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose swearing-in is scheduled for Dec. 6, is taking shape: in recent hours it was announced that Claudia Roth will be the new culture minister, succeeding outgoing minister Monika Grü...
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Italia Nostra, Trieste-based Antonella Caroli is the new president

Professor Antonella Caroli is as of today the new president of Italia Nostra. A native of Trieste, after having served for a long time in the association, as president of the Trieste section, and in protective roles in cultural heritage, she is the 1...
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Official, culture banned for the unvaccinated. Super Green Passes for museums, cinemas, theaters

From Dec. 6 and until Jan. 31, 2022, culture will be de facto banned for non-vaccinating people. In fact, the government has just passed the decree-law introducing "Urgent measures for the containment of the Covid-19 epidemic and the safe conduct of ...
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Milan, Covid damage research on culture: 33.8 million lost in first lockdown alone

Intesa Sanpaolo 's Studies and Research Department and Media and Culture Desk conducted research on the impact of the pandemic on Milan's cultural enterprises, carried out in collaboration with the City of Milan: the survey, the results of which were...
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4% VAT on culture, cultural expense deduction, Art Bonus: Federculture makes proposals to the government

Federculture has put down on paper a package of proposals to support the production of culture and sent them to the government and parliament, launching an appeal: the package foresep roposals on tax breaks and interventions aimed at introducing stru...
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Franceschini: "ItsArt is not improvised, it is a valid tool: it needs more promotion"

Culture Minister Dario Franceschini responded yesterday during Question Time in the House to criticism about ItsArt, the "Netflix of culture" he strongly wanted, and at the basis of which lies an idea formulated during the first lockdown: a s...
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Rome, historian Miguel Gotor is Gualtieri councilor for culture

In Rome, newly elected mayor Roberto Gualtieri has chosen a new councillor for culture: he is Roman Miguel Gotor, born in 1971, a professor of modern history at the Department of Literary, Philosophical and Art History at the University of Rome Tor V...
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