Art and artists

Nasher Prize 2027, an award for excellence in contemporary sculpture, goes to Petrit Halilaj

Petrit Halilaj has been awarded the Nasher Prize 2027, an award dedicated exclusively to excellence in contemporary sculpture. The prize provides $100,000 and the opportunity to develop public programs with the Nasher Sculpture Center. The artist has...
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Street art: study reveals which colors and binders fade and accelerate degradation processes

A study conducted by theUniversity of Pisa, the National Research Council (CNR) and theUniversity of Perugia shows how the use of drones and new technologies can make the preservation of street art, now recognized as contemporary cultural heritage bu...
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Aosta, unveiled the anthropomorphic stele of Ozmo

It is Stele 3 South, the anthropomorphic stele dating back to the third millennium B.C. kept at the MegaMuseum - Contemporary Archaeological Museum of Aosta, the protagonist of the new mural work created in Aosta by street artist Ozmo (Gionata Gesi, ...
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2050th anniversary founding of Aosta, Ozmo makes a Janus Bifrontes on the facade of the elementary school

To celebrate the 2050th anniversary of the founding of Aosta, street artist Ozmo has designed a series of murals that reinterpret the historical, archaeological, geographical and cultural richness of the city in a contemporary way. The first work, on...
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GO!2025, young Italian and Slovenian artists transform vineyards into a permanent art park

In 2025, Gorica and Nova Gorica share the title of European Capital of Culture with the GO!2025 project, created to highlight the common heritage, intertwined traditions, and histories that unite two cities that belong to two states but are bound by ...
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Murals become digital works animated with augmented reality: the Museum of Augmented Urban Art expands

MAUA - Museum of Augmented Urban Art expands and lands in the villages of Aielli (L'Aquila), Diamante (Cosenza), Santa Croce di Magliano (Campobasso), Favara (Agrigento) and the cities of Florence and Cosenza. Thanks to funding from the European Unio...
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Reinterpreted artworks within the walls of her home with the help of her dog: the challenge of an American artist

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, when large parts of the world were forced to stay indoors due to the lockdown, the Getty Museum decided to come up with a creative and playful initiative on social media: inviting users to reproduce their favori...
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Rome, on the Tiber River the first inflatable work by street artist Millo: two giant figures locked in an embrace

On the left bank of the Tiber River, in Rome, between Umberto I Bridge and Sant'Angelo Bridge, two giant figures, 18 meters long and 7 meters high, clasp each other in an embrace. It is The Lovers, the work of Francesco Camillo Giorgino, aka Millo, a...
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Henri Rousseau's enigma of the tiger in the 1891 painting Surprise!

July 29 marks World Tiger Day, established to raise awareness for the protection of the endangered big cat. Among the many images that have celebrated its symbolic power and beauty over time, Surprise! by Henri Rousseau (Laval, 1844 - Paris, 1910) re...
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Farewell to Mario Paglino and Gianni Grossi, creators of Barbie dolls inspired by art history

Four people were killed in an accident on Sunday, July 27, on the A4 highway between the Novara Est and Marcallo Mesero toll booths. A head-on collision caused by a car traveling in the wrong direction, inside which was an 82-year-old man who also di...
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The storming of the Bastille in art: what happened on July 14, 1789?

Imagine a crowd of Parisians on July 14, 1789 as they stormed the Bastille, a now almost disused prison. We then think of all that followed that event, which represented the ultimate breaking point between the people and the absolute monarchy, beginn...
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Who is Nicola Bolla, the Swarovski chair artist smashed by selfie-hunting tourists

Yesterday, June 12, 2025, at theMaffei Palace in Verona, an incident reignited the debate on the value and fragility of contemporary art: two visitors took advantage of the momentary absence of the security staff to photograph themselves sitting on t...
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The most beautiful in the world: the Amerigo Vespucci in the shots of photojournalist Massimo Sestini

The 2023-2025 World Tour (with docking in the port of Genoa) of Nave Scuola Amerigo Vespucci, a historic vessel of the Italian Navy, ended on June 10. Five continents, 30 countries, 35 ports and more than 46,000 nautical miles: the long voyage of the...
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The rose, symbolic flower of May. Here is how painters have depicted it in their works

May is the month of roses par excellence. When the air becomes sweeter, roses bloom and gardens are dressed in enchanting fragrance. A noble, ancient and regal flower that for centuries has symbolized love, passion, devotion, grace and mystery, of al...
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Enrico Baj's funeral of anarchist Pinelli finds home at Milan's Museo del Novecento

Milan 's Museo del Novecento welcomes a fundamental work of Italian art history and collective memory: I funerali dell'anarchico Pinelli (1972) by Enrico Baj (Milan, 1924 - Vergiate, 2003). From Thursday, Feb. 20, the celebrated polymateric installat...
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Margherita Sarfatti: who was really the art critic who 'created' the Duce

That of Margherita Sarfatti (Margherita Grassini; Venice, 1880 - Cavallasca, 1961) is not a name frequently encountered in school textbooks, yet her influence spanned decades of Italian history, intertwining with the artistic and political currents o...
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