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Working in art and culture: vacancies and open positions of the week

Working in art and culture: vacancies and open positions of the week

The monitoring of news from the arts and cultural heritage sector continues, with a collection of competitions, selections and professional opportunities published in the period between March 31 and April 7, 2026. In Aosta, the RAI - Radiotelevision...
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At the Grand Palais in Paris a major monographic exhibition on Hilma af Klint

At the Grand Palais in Paris a major monographic exhibition on Hilma af Klint

From May 6 to August 30, 2026, the Grand Palais in Paris will host a major exhibition dedicated to Hilma af Klint (Solna, 1862 - Danderyd, 1944), an artist who profoundly changed the chronology of modern art. The exhibition, entitled Hilma af Klint. ...
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Paleofestival, an exhibition dedicated to popular experimental archaeology on the ancient world, returns to La Spezia

Paleofestival, an exhibition dedicated to popular experimental archaeology on the ancient world, returns to La Spezia

The 19th edition of Paleofestival, a festival dedicated topopular experimental archaeology on the ancient world, kicks off April 18 and 19 at the San Giorgio Castle in Spice, starting at 3:30 p.m. The program was presented this morning by Mayor Pierl...
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Ulassai Biennial 2026 investigates the meaning of the work between art and community

Ulassai Biennial 2026 investigates the meaning of the work between art and community

In Sardinia, the town of Ulassai (Ogliastra) renews its role in the contemporary art scene with the second edition of the Ulassai Biennale Arte Contemporanea, entitled Il Significato dell'Opera (The Meaning of the Work), a project that develops in th...
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Venice's Marciana Library welcomes the world's largest book, donated by Alberto Peruzzo

Venice's Marciana Library welcomes the world's largest book, donated by Alberto Peruzzo

On Thursday, April 9, 2026, at 11 a.m., the Marciana National Library in Venice will receive as a gift the book Modern Art - Revolution and Painting, described as the largest, heaviest and most expensive in the world. The ceremony will take place in ...
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Ancient Ostia goes to town: three Rome hotels welcome three ancient works out of storage and restored

Ancient Ostia goes to town: three Rome hotels welcome three ancient works out of storage and restored

Three works, three hotels, one project: ancient Ostia goes to the city. An initiative designed to make accessible to the general public precious artifacts that have remained hidden for decades in museum deposits and never exhibited. The project is p...
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Forty years after last publication, Giorgio Cini Foundation publishing project restarts

Forty years after last publication, Giorgio Cini Foundation publishing project restarts

The Giorgio Cini Foundation relaunches the historic series of volumes dedicated to collecting studies and contributions by internationally renowned scholars from different disciplinary fields on some of the most relevant contemporary issues. The Quad...
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Naked female skaters inaugurate artwork, controversy ensues: 'why women always naked'?

Naked female skaters inaugurate artwork, controversy ensues: 'why women always naked'?

In Germany, specifically in Hanover, a lively controversy has arisen around Crash Pipe, the new installation by Austrian artist and choreographer Florentina Holzinger (Vienna, 1986), inaugurated in public space with a performance that immediately ign...
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Martin Schongauer, at the Louvre the exhibition on the master of the late Middle Ages

Martin Schongauer, at the Louvre the exhibition on the master of the late Middle Ages

Nicknamed "Martin Schön," or "the handsome Martin," by Albrecht Dürer, Martin Schongauer (Colmar, c. 1445 - Vieux-Brisach, 1491), one of the greatest German painters of the 15th century, returns to center stage with a major exhibition sched...
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Piacenza, Klimt's Portrait of a Lady is back at the Ricci Oddi Gallery of Modern Art

Piacenza, Klimt's Portrait of a Lady is back at the Ricci Oddi Gallery of Modern Art

As of Saturday, April 4, 2026, Gustav Klimt 's Portrait of a Lady (1916-1917) is back on display in the halls of the Ricci Oddi Gallery of Modern Art in Piacenza, after having been on view until March 22, 2026 at the My Art Museum in Seoul, as part o...
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Appian Way Archaeological Park, restoration of the Tomb of the Pancras has begun

Appian Way Archaeological Park, restoration of the Tomb of the Pancras has begun

As of Wednesday, April 1, 2026, the Tomb of the Pancrazi, located within thearchaeological area of the Via Latina Tombs, will be temporarily closed to visitors to allow restoration work on the frescoes in the burial chamber. The beginning of these wo...
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An exhibition at Palazzo Venezia on Piero di Cosimo's Magdalene recounts the lives of women in the Renaissance

An exhibition at Palazzo Venezia on Piero di Cosimo's Magdalene recounts the lives of women in the Renaissance

On April 17, 2026, the VIVE - Vittoriano and Palazzo Venezia will inaugurate the exhibition La Maddalena di Piero di Cosimo: art, history and women's lives in the Florentine Renaissance, set up in the rooms of the ancient kitchens of Rome's Palazzo V...
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Cingoli wins Borgo dei Borghi 2026: triumph for the "Balcony of Marche"

Cingoli wins Borgo dei Borghi 2026: triumph for the "Balcony of Marche"

It is Cingoli that has won the title of Borgo dei Borghi for 2026, an award given annually as part of the TV program Il Borgo dei Borghi, broadcast on Rai 3, which effectively confers the palm as Italy's most beautiful village. The proclamation of th...
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An exhibition at MAXXI in Rome investigates the ironic component that runs through Italian culture

An exhibition at MAXXI in Rome investigates the ironic component that runs through Italian culture

MAXXI in Rome hosts, from April 2 to September 20, 2026, the exhibition Tragicomica. Perspectives on Italian Art from the Second Twentieth Century to the Present, curated by Andrea Bellini and Francesco Stocchi, offering a broad and multidisciplinary...
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Easter free museum and Easter Monday special openings

Easter free museum and Easter Monday special openings

On Easter and Easter Monday, state-run museums, galleries, archaeological areas and parks, villas, gardens, abbeys and monumental complexes will remain regularly open to the public, allowing broad accessibility to cultural venues throughout Italy. On...
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Art on TV April 5-11: Piero della Francesca, Caravaggio and Giotto

Art on TV April 5-11: Piero della Francesca, Caravaggio and Giotto

Rai and Sky Arte dedicate the week to art, design and historical curiosities. Here is the programming from April 5 to 11. On Rai Storia the programming for the next few days devotes ample space to history and art, including historical insights and s...
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At Gallerie d'Italia in Naples, Alexi Worth's works dialogue with Attic and Magna Graecia ceramics

At Gallerie d'Italia in Naples, Alexi Worth's works dialogue with Attic and Magna Graecia ceramics

The Gallerie d'Italia in Naples is hosting, from April 3 to July 5, 2026, the exhibition Vortici. Alexi Worth in Dialogue with Ceramics, curated by Silvia Gaspardo Moro and Richard Neer. The project proposes an unprecedented comparison between Attic ...
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Theft at Magnani-Rocca, appeal to the public: "Come defend beauty"

Theft at Magnani-Rocca, appeal to the public: "Come defend beauty"

After the theft from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation in Mamiamo di Traversetolo, an affair that has hit Italian cultural heritage hard, the Foundation itself is launching a collective appeal to react through participation and sharing of beauty. After t...
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The treasure in the mud: the bronzes of San Casciano, history of discovery

The treasure in the mud: the bronzes of San Casciano, history of discovery

When the hot water of Tuscany 's hot springs meets clayey mud, sometimes history stops and reveals millennia-old secrets that resurface intact, defying time. It happened in San Casciano dei Bagni, in the province of Siena, where, a few meters from th...
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Another Antonello da Messina rediscovered: rare 15th-century painting at auction

Another Antonello da Messina rediscovered: rare 15th-century painting at auction

Another brings Antonello da Messina (Messina, c. 1430 - 1479), a pivotal figure of the Italian Renaissance, back into the spotlight, following the recent return of his Ecce Homo to the market and the subsequent purchase of the panel by the Italian st...
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A metaphysical cabin on the sea. Luca Bertolo's talk for Hypermaremma.

A metaphysical cabin on the sea. Luca Bertolo's talk for Hypermaremma.

The eighth edition of Hypermaremma kicks off on Saturday, April 4, 2026, inaugurating the new season with the project Observatory M1 by Luca Bertolo (Milan, 1968). The appointment is set for 11:30 a.m. at La Torba Beach (also known as "Playa La Torba...
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Vatican Pinacoteca, Barberini tapestries on display for the 400th anniversary of the Dedication of St. Peter's Basilica

Vatican Pinacoteca, Barberini tapestries on display for the 400th anniversary of the Dedication of St. Peter's Basilica

Four hundred years after the Dedication of St. Peter's Basilica on November 18, 1626, the exhibition The Barberini Tapestry. The Resurrection and Dedication of the Vatican Basilica, which can be visited from March 30, 2026 at the Vatican Pinacoteca a...
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Venice, works by contemporary American artists Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince at the Fondazione Prada

Venice, works by contemporary American artists Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince at the Fondazione Prada

Fondazione Prada, at its Venetian venue Ca' Corner della Regina, presents the exhibition Helter Skelter: Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince, curated by Nancy Spector, from May 9 to November 23, 2026. The exhibition brings into dialogue, for the first tim...
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At Unipol Tower in Milan, Alberto Burri in dialogue with five creations of contemporary Japanese fashion

At Unipol Tower in Milan, Alberto Burri in dialogue with five creations of contemporary Japanese fashion

From April 16 to May 5, 2026, CUBO Enterprise Museum of Unipol Group presents at Unipol Tower in Milan the exhibition project Abitare il Nero. From Alberto Burri to the Fashion Designers of the Japanese School. At the center of the exhibition is Nero...
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Aromatic substances from Africa and Asia also in Pompeii's smoke burners: a study

Aromatic substances from Africa and Asia also in Pompeii's smoke burners: a study

In Pompeii, not only local plants were used on domestic altars, but also aromatic substances from Africa and Asia. This is revealed by scientific analyses conducted by an international team of scholars, who investigated the materials burned in Roman ...
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