An extensive program of restorations is involving and will involve the monuments and buildings in Florence's Piazza del Duomo, including Giotto's Campanile, the Eugenian College, and the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo. As the president of theOpera di San...
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On Friday, February 20 at 11:30 a.m., Turin 's Palazzo Madama hosted the presentation of the restoration of the Polyptych with Saint Jerome and Saints, Annunciation and Scenes from the Passion by Defendente Ferrari (Chivasso, ca. 1475 - 1540), a work...
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Genoa is rediscovering a masterpiece that was in danger of being lost, thanks to a community-supported restoration following a mobilization that began in 2024 after art historian Giacomo Montanari, now the Ligurian capital's culture alderman, reporte...
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Passages: from hand to hand is the guiding theme of the 2026 programming of the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato, which presented this year's exhibitions today. After Building Community in 2025 and Tuscany at the Center in 2024, there...
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The Olympic brazier for the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Games could remain in Milan even after the event is over. The hypothesis was put forward by Mayor Giuseppe Sala on the sidelines of the Your Next Milano event, dedicated to the impact of the Olymp...
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From February 20 to July 19, 2026, the Mercati di Traiano - Musei dei Fori Imperiali in Rome will host the exhibition Constantin Brâncuși. The Origins of Infinity, organized as part of the bilateral program of the Romania-Italy Cultural Year 20...
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An increasingly accessible museum, able to speak to everyone through different languages. On the eve of National Braille Day on Feb. 21, the Capodimonte Museum and Real Bosco in Naples unveiled a new path of tactile-olfactory panels at the Giardino d...
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Another 300 thousand euros to continue the excavation of the newly discovered Basilica of Vitruvius in Piazza Andrea Costa in Fano. The joint work between the city administration and the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio for the Prov...
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After an absence of more than eighty years, the monumental canvas by Giuseppe Avanzi (Ferrara, 1645 - 1718) returns to the presbytery of the church of San Cristoforo alla Certosa in Ferrara, and the city can thus return to see one of its most signifi...
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From Feb. 27 to Aug. 31, 2026, London 's Tate Modern is hosting A Second Life, the largest exhibition ever devoted to Tracey Emin. The exhibition, staged in the Eyal Ofer Galleries and curated by Maria Balshaw, director of the Tate, is the most signi...
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From Feb. 20 to April 18, 2026, the Atipografia gallery in Arzignano, Vicenza, hosts L'ombra delle lucciole (The Shadow of Fireflies), the second stage of an exhibition cycle that investigates the three-dimensionality of human beings and the complexi...
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For the first time, Portugal has returned to Mexico archaeological goods illegally removed from its territory. The handover took place on Feb. 12, 2026 at the headquarters of the Mexican Embassy in Lisbon, where Portuguese authorities formally transf...
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The Directorate General for Museums of the Ministry of Culture has announced the outcome of the international public selection process for the appointment as director of fourteen Italian museums and cultural institutes. This is a major step in the go...
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Spain's cultural heritage is being enriched thanks to a nobleman paying inheritance tax in works of art, an operation permitted by the Spanish tax authorities. It happens in the Canary Islands, where the family of Count de la Vega Grande de Guadalupe...
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Luca Rossi is the only artist under 50 to enter with his own work in the new exhibition itinerary ofOsteria Francescana, the restaurant led by Massimo Bottura and internationally recognized as one of the symbolic places of contemporary gastronomic cu...
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The art and collectibles market is gearing up for a whirlwind week with a calendar that, between Feb. 19 and Feb. 25, 2026, ranges from precious vintage silverware to avant-garde design and pop culture memorabilia. Italian auction houses open the per...
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On the night of Feb. 17-18, a break-in occurred at the Basilica of the Blessed Virgin of St. Luke in Bologna. According to information from theArchdiocese, unknown persons forced the night closure of the Holy Image and broke the protective glass of t...
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The National Gallery in London has announced the launch of a plan to cut staff and reduce programs, following a projected deficit of 8.2 million pounds (about 9.44 million euros) in the 2026/27 budget. The decision, as Artnet reports, follows the ado...
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Starting Feb. 18, 2026, the Louvre Museum will expand its visitor offerings with an augmented reality project developed in conjunction withSnap Inc.'s Paris-based AR Studio. The initiative, titled The Incredible Unknowns of the Louvre, introduces afr...
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Two hundred years after the death of Carl Maria von Weber (Eutin, 1786-London, 1826), one of the greatest German composers of the 19th century, Dresden is building an entire year of cultural programming around the figure of the composer who contribut...
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It will be the Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice, to host from March 28 to November 22, 2026 The-exchange-value-of-language-has-fallen-to-zero ("The exchange-value-of-language-has-fallen-to-zero"), an exhibition by Joseph Kosuth curated by Mario Codognato a...
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Museo Galileo and the Museo Nazionale Romano announced the signing of a collaboration protocol on Feb. 13, 2026, valid for three years with the possibility of renewal. The agreement is in the spirit of building a national museum system and aims to st...
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We probably won't see him competing against Franjo von Allmen to battle it out on the steep slopes of the Streif in Kitzbühel or the devastating curves of the Stelvio in Bormio, nor does it appear that he has been summoned along with Franzoni, P...
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Registration is now open for the third edition of d:cult, the Training Course in Scientific Dissemination of Cultural Heritage promoted by the IANUA School of the University of Genoa. The course, aimed at young graduates under 35 from all over Italy,...
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Following the vast fire that broke out at dawn in Naples' Chiaia district, which enveloped the Sannazaro Theater causing the dome to collapse and a dense column of smoke, the first images of the building's interior are now emerging. The blaze, which ...
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