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Study unravels mystery unsolved since 18th century Fourcault taxidermy collection in Parma

Study unravels mystery unsolved since 18th century Fourcault taxidermy collection in Parma

The enigma shrouding the mysterious taxidermy collection of Father Jean Baptiste Fourcault, preserved at the Museum of Naturalistic Historiography of theUniversity of Parma - MUST, has been cleared up. An article just published in the journal Museolo...
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Gibellina Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2026: the program of events of the two inaugural days

Gibellina Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2026: the program of events of the two inaugural days

Thursday, Jan. 15 and Friday, Jan. 16, 2026 will officially open Portami il futuro, the program of Gibellina - Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2026, an initiative promoted by the Ministry of Culture's General Directorate for Contemporary Creativi...
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Colle di Val d'Elsa: experimental project involving people with frailty in civic museums kicks off

Colle di Val d'Elsa: experimental project involving people with frailty in civic museums kicks off

An experimental project born from the collaboration between the Municipality and the Mental Health Center will involve young people and adults followed by the Mental Health Center inwelcoming visitors andaccompanying them to discover the city's artis...
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Milan Diocesan Museum presents exhibition program through summer 2026: from Hans Memling to Werner Bischof

Milan Diocesan Museum presents exhibition program through summer 2026: from Hans Memling to Werner Bischof

The Carlo Maria Martini Diocesan Museum in Milan closes 2025 with a positive balance and presents the exhibition program that will accompany the public until the summer of 2026. The year just ended recorded more than 91,000 visitors, an increase comp...
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Seismic safety, MiC funds Carditello Royal Site with more than 12 million

Seismic safety, MiC funds Carditello Royal Site with more than 12 million

The Ministry of Culture has launched the implementation of the Grand Project "Carditello," allocating total funding of 12,458,491.86 euros to the Royal Site of Carditello, the important Bourbon palace. The intervention is part of the broader MiC prog...
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The Oceanographic Museum in Monaco: a century of underwater exploration and wonders

The Oceanographic Museum in Monaco: a century of underwater exploration and wonders

The Monaco Oceanographic Museum represents one of the most prestigious and oldest institutions dedicated to the underwater world, and in addition to being one of the most visited sites in the Principality of Monaco, often the reason for travel, it al...
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Bologna, Palazzo Pallavicini will host a major anthological exhibition on Ruth Orkin, 20th century photojournalist and photographer

Bologna, Palazzo Pallavicini will host a major anthological exhibition on Ruth Orkin, 20th century photojournalist and photographer

From March 5 to July 19, 2026, Palazzo Pallavicini in Bologna hosts a major anthological exhibition dedicated to Ruth Orkin (Boston, 1921 - New York, 1985), American photojournalist, photographer and filmmaker, among the most significant figures in t...
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An exhibition in Catanzaro pays tribute to Mimmo Rotella with his self-portraits 20 years after his death

An exhibition in Catanzaro pays tribute to Mimmo Rotella with his self-portraits 20 years after his death

Twenty years after the death of Mimmo Rotella, the Mimmo Rotella Foundation celebrates the figure of the artist with the exhibition project Autorotella, curated by Alberto Fiz and open to visitors in the Casa della Memoria in Catanzaro, the house-mus...
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Spoleto, restored the crypt of San Primiano

Spoleto, restored the crypt of San Primiano

Spoleto rediscovers one of its oldest and most meaningful places with the presentation this afternoon of the end of the restoration of the crypt of San Primiano, located inside the Cathedral Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta. The restoration work on th...
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Bergamo Arte Fiera and Italian Fine Art kick off art fairs in Italy 2026

Bergamo Arte Fiera and Italian Fine Art kick off art fairs in Italy 2026

The two events that mark the beginning of art fairs in Italy in 2026 are returning to the Bergamo Fair: Bergamo Arte Fiera (BAF), now in its 21st edition (Jan. 16-18), and Italian Fine Art (IFA), in its ninth edition (Jan. 16-25). The two events, the...
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White House threatens Smithsonian: no funding if it does not conform to Trump's lines

White House threatens Smithsonian: no funding if it does not conform to Trump's lines

The White House could suspend funding to the Smithsonian, the largest museum complex in the United States of America, if the institution decides not to abide by the strict rules that were imposed last summer by theTrump administration. That, in a nut...
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Pointing Nemo: IOCOSE and the rhetorics of NewSpace on display in Bologna

Pointing Nemo: IOCOSE and the rhetorics of NewSpace on display in Bologna

As part of ART CITY Bologna 2026, CUBO, business museum of the Unipol Group in Bologna, presents from Feb. 6 to May 26 Pointing Nemo. Beyond Space to the Abyss, a solo exhibition by the IOCOSE collective curated by Federica Patti. The project is part...
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Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring on a trip to Japan.

Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring on a trip to Japan.

Another international move for Girl with a Pearl Earring, a masterpiece by Johannes Vermeer (Delft, 1632 - 1675) kept at the Mauritshuis in The Hague. The work will go to Japan, to the Nakanoshima Museum of Art in Osaka, next summer, between August a...
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Andrea Pazienza painting saved from landfill becomes court case

Andrea Pazienza painting saved from landfill becomes court case

Forty years after its creation, a painting by Andrea Pazienza is back in the limelight, not only for its artistic value but also because of the legal events involving it. As Ansa newspaper writes , the work, depicting the equestrian Zanardi, was crea...
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The princess who loved sports on display at Turin's Moncalieri Castle

The princess who loved sports on display at Turin's Moncalieri Castle

Moncalieri Castle in Turin is hosting until Feb. 22, 2026, the exhibition-dossier The Princess Who Loved Sport. Suggestions of snow and mountains in the House of Savoy, created on the occasion of the passage of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic flame, s...
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Wreck of largest medieval ship ever found emerges off Copenhagen

Wreck of largest medieval ship ever found emerges off Copenhagen

For more than six centuries, the waters off Copenhagen in Denmark have held a ship destined to redefine knowledge of navigation and trade in the Middle Ages. The discovery involves Svælget 2, the largest medieval crock (a type of ship in use du...
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A graphic novel tells the story of Camille Claudel, talented sculptor of the late 19th century

A graphic novel tells the story of Camille Claudel, talented sculptor of the late 19th century

The story of late 19th-century French sculptor Camille Claudel told in a graphic novel: to be released on February 24, 2026 in bookstores Troppo libera. The Art, Love, and Struggle of Camille Claudel, by Assia Petricelli and Sergio Riccardi with afte...
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London, at the National Portrait Gallery a major exhibition devoted to the drawings of Lucian Freud

London, at the National Portrait Gallery a major exhibition devoted to the drawings of Lucian Freud

From February 12 to May 4, 2026, the National Portrait Gallery in London will present Lucian Freud: Drawing Into Painting, a major exhibition devoted to the drawings and paintings of Lucian Freud. The exhibition aims to be the largest museum project ...
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Too many thefts in Carrara Cathedral: parish priest closes monument

Too many thefts in Carrara Cathedral: parish priest closes monument

Too many church burglaries, and Carrara Cathedral, one of the most important monuments in northern Tuscany, is closing to the public. This was decided by the parish priest, Don Piero Albanesi, after the church, located in the heart of the city of mar...
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In Rome, a public center dedicated to photography will open in the former Slaughterhouse of Testaccio.

In Rome, a public center dedicated to photography will open in the former Slaughterhouse of Testaccio.

The first public Center dedicated to Photography, one of the flagship projects included in the wide-ranging urban recovery and regeneration plan of theformer Slaughterhouse in Testaccio, destined to be transformed into the new "City of the Arts," has...
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Florence, finishes the restoration of the Corsini Chapel in the Basilica del Carmine

Florence, finishes the restoration of the Corsini Chapel in the Basilica del Carmine

A presentation was held in Florence yesterday on the completion of restoration work on the Corsini Chapel in the Basilica of Santa Maria del Carmine, one of the most significant examples of Baroque sculpture and decoration in the city. The event was ...
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Coming to Udine more than 80 masterpieces from Winterthur's Kunst Museum

Coming to Udine more than 80 masterpieces from Winterthur's Kunst Museum

From Jan. 30 to Aug. 30, 2026 Casa Cavazzini - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Udine hosts the exhibition Impressionism and Modernity. Monet, Van Gogh, Picasso, Kandinsky, Magritte. Masterpieces from the Kunst Museum in Winterthur, an exhibi...
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A famous Ecce Homo by Antonello da Messina at auction at Sotheby's: estimate of 15 million

A famous Ecce Homo by Antonello da Messina at auction at Sotheby's: estimate of 15 million

It is sure to be one of the most important auctions of the year: an Ecce Homo by Antonello da Mess ina (Messina, c. 1430 - 1479) will go on sale at Sotheby 's in New York on February 5, with an estimate of €10-15 million. This is a rare sale that a...
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An exhibition in Milan on photographers who made black and white their research tool

An exhibition in Milan on photographers who made black and white their research tool

From January 16 to February 28, 2026 THE POOL NYC presents at Palazzo Fagnani Ronzoni in Milan the second chapter of the project I tempi dello sguardo. 90 Years of Italian Photography in Two Acts. The format offers a broad path through the history of...
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Christie's is putting up for sale Ca' Dario, the... cursed house in Venice painted by Monet

Christie's is putting up for sale Ca' Dario, the... cursed house in Venice painted by Monet

In the Dorsoduro sestiere, along one of the best-known stretches of the Grand Canal in Venice, Ca' Dario, also known as Palazzo Dario, is now the subject of a proposed sale curated by Christie's International Real Estate. The building overlooks one o...
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