Brescia is preparing to celebrate the bicentenary of the discovery of the Winged Victory, a masterpiece of the Roman age for its compositional quality, material and state of preservation. It is one of the very rare Roman bronzes from excavations that...
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On Monday, April 20, 2026, the official handover at the helm of Parma's Complesso Monumentale della Pilotta took place: Denis Ton took over as director, succeeding Stefano L'Occaso, who served as acting director from January 2024. Appointed by the Mi...
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A monumental statue, most likely attributed to Pharaoh Ramses II, has been found at the Tellel-Faroun archaeological site in the eastern Nile Delta area. The discovery occurred as part of the activities of an Egyptian mission operating under the ausp...
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Forte Aurelia has been handed back to the city of Rome, at the end of a long recovery and restoration process. The official ceremony of reopening and handover of the Fort to the city by the Guardia di Finanza marked the conclusion of a 10-year projec...
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The restoration of two monumental works by Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti; Venice, 1518 - 1594), The Last Supper and The Jews in the Desert, two masterpieces from the late phase of the Venetian painter's career, now once again on view in the basilica of ...
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Art, it is known, arouses emotions, and now there are those who want to study this potential, turn it into data useful for scientific research. This is the goal of the ethological survey initiated by the Department of Biology at the University of Pis...
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Florence's Galleria dell'Accademia and Bargello Museums launch a new restoration project. Inside the Bargello National Museum 's Michelangelo Hall, operations have already begun to unmount the base of Benvenuto Cellini's Perseus, the first step in a ...
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The exhibition program dedicated to the protagonists ofArte Povera continues at the Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring, New York state, with a new stage focusing on the work of Alighiero Boetti (Turin, 1940 - Rome, 1994). The exhibition, entitled T...
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On April 20 and 21, 2026, the Reggia di Venaria will host the 25th General Assembly of the Association of European Royal Residences (ARRE), a network that brings together the institutions responsible for some of the continent's leading castle complex...
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Thanks to the acquisition in 2025 by the Ministry of Culture of two missing panels, Antonio Rimpatta 's Mormile Polyptych has now been reassembled almost in its entirety, thus returning to the public a work of considerable importance. The two panels ...
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For the first time in Italy, from May 8 to November 22, 2026, in St. Mark's Square, in the spaces of theHotel Monaco & Grand Canal and on the occasion of the 61st Venice Biennale, comes Consultorio Mitologico, a project by the Spanish duo MITO (E...
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From April 15 to August 16, 2026, the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris is celebrating the centenary of the arrival in France of the American sculptor Alexander Calder (Lawnton, 1898 - New York, 1976) in 1926 and the 50th anniversary of his death with...
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"Cultural heritage at your fingertips." This is the message of the Musei Italiani app, an innovative project that aims to significantly transformaccess to museums and cultural venues by offering users an intuitive, secure and comprehensive digital se...
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Florence, climbs the Neptune Fountain and causes damage estimated at around 5,000 euros. A 28-year-old foreign woman was charged by municipal police for defacing an artistic-architectural asset after an incident last Saturday in Piazza della Signoria...
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Hitting and destroying art, in and out of museums: vandalism in art, whether it occurs with a hammer, acid, edged weapons or simply with bare hands, is a phenomenon that spans eras and contexts, leaving marks not only on the surfaces of paintings and...
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The Girolamini Library in Naples will become accessible to the public again on April 22, 2026, after a 14-year closure. The opening, as reported by the Vesuviolive.it news outlet, will take place through an exhibition housed in the institute's histor...
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On April 20, 2026, the Italy-Mozambique project began in Maputo, Mozambique. A Bridge Made in Art, a cultural partnership initiative that will run until June 2027 and involves Italy and Mozambique in the contemporary art sector through an articulated...
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Egypt has recovered from the United States 13 archaeological artifacts that illegally left the country, as part of an operation conducted through cooperation between the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry and relevant ...
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An armed attack inside the archaeological site of Teotihuacán, among Mexico's major tourist hubs, left two people dead and at least 13 wounded. The incident, as reported by the El País news outlet, occurred on Monday, April 20 in the ar...
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The fourth edition of Cremona Contemporanea, a project dedicated to the visual arts that transforms the urban fabric into a widespread exhibition system, kicks off in Cremona from May 23 to 31, 2026. The initiative offers an articulated calendar of i...
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As of April 18, 2026, the Grimaldina Tower of the Doge 's Palace will be accessible to the public again after a restoration and enhancement project that lasted more than a year. The opening marks the return to the city of one of the most recognizable...
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A violent thunderstorm that hit Rome in the past week has caused water infiltration in the Vatican Museums, causing flooding in the Gregorian Profane section, one of the exhibition spaces that holds a significant part of the ancient sculpture collect...
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The monitoring of news in the arts and cultural heritage sector continues through an overview of calls for applications, public selections, open positions, vacancies and career paths released during the week of April 14-20, 2026.
In Cogne (Aosta Val...
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There are 46 archaeological artifacts from Etruscan, Greek and Roman times returned to the state and destined for the National Museum of Sibari, located in the territory of the municipality of Cassano all'Ionio, in the province of Cosenza, within the...
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Carabinieri from the Cultural Heritage Protection Unit in Cosenza have seized 143 works of art believed to be fake, attributed to Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Banksy. The operation is part of an investigation coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's O...
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