Foiano della Chiana hosts a widespread exhibition to highlight Della Robbia works in the area
From June 3 to Sept. 30, 2023, the Anno Robbiano exhibition will be held in Foiano della Chiana, organized in collaboration with the MANN-National Archaeological Museum of Naples and theState Archives of Siena, under the patronage of the Ministry of ...Read more...
Siena, 20 years after discovery, the Thebaid and its entire environment will be restored
The Society of Executors of Pious Dispositions, heir to the company of the Disciplinati of Santa Maria under the vaults of the Spedale, one of the oldest and most important Sienese confraternal associations whose origins date back to the late thirtee...Read more...
Russia, 15-year jail term for street artist who daubed city hall in protest of war
Very harsh punishment for a Crimean street artist, Bogdan Ziza, who was guilty of daubing the town hall of his city, Jevpatorija in Crimea, with paint in the colors ofUkraine to protest the war, and for this he was sentenced to a 15-year sentence for...Read more...
Paris, Louvre armored for the arrival of Mattarella and Macron. Exclusive photos
Huge security measures this morning at the Louvre where President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella is opening, together with French President Emmanuel Macron, the exhibition Naples in Paris - The Louvre invites the Capodimonte Museum, on display at ...Read more...
June 7-13 auctions: paintings, jewelry and automobiles
With summer around the corner, let's find out the best auctions from June 7 to 13. At Pandolfini 's, Italian and European Silver auctions open June 8-15 and International Fine Art and an important "Au bon Sauvage" collection of clocks June 13. For ...Read more...
Bergamo, success for Cecco del Caravaggio exhibition, with 71,500 visitors
Respectable numbers for the exhibition Cecco del Caravaggio. The model pupil, which was held at theAccademia Carrara in Bergamo, and was curated by Gianni Papi(here is our review). The exhibition, the first dedicated to Francesco Boneri, known as Cec...Read more...
Naples, four precious oils on copper by Luca Giordano restored at the Tesoro di San Gennaro
Important restoration in Naples: in fact, four remarkable works by Luca Giordano (Naples, 1634 - 1705) painted in oil on copper shine with new light and are among the jewels of the Museum of the Treasure of San Gennaro kept in the Chapel Sacristy. To...Read more...
Brussels, after nine years of restoration, an Art Nouveau jewel opens: Maison Hannon
In Brussels , a jewel of Belgium'sArt Nouveau is once again shining. In fact, as of June 2023, after a restoration that lasted a full 9 years, the public can return to visit the splendid Maison Hannon. This is a valuable recovery supported by the Hor...Read more...
Charity auction at Vittoriale to support women survivors of violence
With the aim of raising funds to support the reintegration into society of women survivors of violence, a large charity auction is scheduled in Gardone Riviera at the Vittoriale degli Italiani. Organized by il Cigno GG Edizioni-Roma, the brainchild o...Read more...
MUSE Trento, a night at the museum for eighteen artists to reflect on the Anthropocene
On Saturday, June 3 and Sunday, June 4, 2023 (5 p.m. to 10 a.m.), the Art and Design Hackaton "Generating the Anthropocene | Generating the Anthropocene" was held at MUSE in Trent, Italy, to mark World Environment Day. Launched by NxT, the MUSE trai...Read more...
Palazzo Te Foundation, online lecture series on cultural Europe kicks off
Fondazione Palazzo Te presents For a Europe of Culture. A scientific, historical and philosophical reflection on the "cultural" meaning of Europe: a series of online conferences among scientists, politicians, jurists, historians and art historians fo...Read more...
After restoration, the Pietà of Luco has returned to shine in the Palatine Gallery
After restoration conducted by theOpificio delle Pietre Dure, the colors of Andrea del Sarto 's Pietà di Luco have returned to their original splendor, and the work has been relocated to the Apollo Room of the Palatine Gallery of the Pitti Pal...Read more...
Bronzes of San Casciano, Friends of Florence contributes to restoration before exhibition in Rome
In November 2022, the discovery of more than twenty bronze statues from the sacred pool of the Etruscan and Roman sanctuary of Bagno Grande in San Casciano dei Bagni was announced. This was an exceptional discovery of great magnitude. However, as wit...Read more...
Spain, for the first time in history identified the composition of a Roman perfume
What perfume did the ancient Romans wear? We have been given so many containers, such as balsam jars and ointment jars, that were used to hold products with which the Romans perfumed themselves, but their contents had never reached us. Now, however, ...Read more...
Savona, the works of Wilfredo Lam and the Magiciens de la Mer on display
Entitled Lam et les Magiciens de la Mer , the exhibition that, from June 2 to September 10, 2023, the Museum of Ceramics in Savona and the MuDA Exhibition Center in Albissola Marina are dedicating to Wilfredo Lam (Sagua la Grande, 1902 - Paris, 1982)...Read more...
Rome, at ADA gallery the solo exhibition Fire Song by Francesca Banchelli
Until July 15, the ADA gallery in Rome hosts Fire Song, a solo exhibition by Francesca Banchelli (Montevarchi, 1981) in which the Tuscan artist exhibits works that formulate visions of the encounter in events suspended between passages and lightning,...Read more...
Venice, at the Correr Museum an exhibition on images of Justice over the centuries
From June 10 to September 3, 2023, the Museo Correr in Venice is hosting the exhibition Imago Iustitiae. Masterpieces through the Centuries, curated by Marina Mattei, entirely dedicated to the theme of iustice. It is the second-century AD Latin juris...Read more...
Honorary degree for Alberto Angela at the Federico II University of Naples.
This morning Alberto Angela was awarded an honorary master's degree in Geology and Applied Geology in the Aula Magna Storica of theFederico II University of Naples. A former honorary citizen of Naples, Alberto Angela has dedicated several successful ...Read more...
The Trussardi Foundation organizes the first institutional anthology of the young Diego Marcon
In Milan, the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, to celebrate its 20 years of activity ("nomadic," it tends to specify: in fact, the Foundation has no permanent home), is proposing from June 5 to 30 an exhibition with which it continues its "mobile museum"...Read more...
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, restoration of Lavinia Fontana painting kicks off thanks to Opera tua
The restoration of theApparition of the Madonna and Child to the Saints Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, Agnes, Ursula and Barbara by Lavinia Fontana conserved at the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Bologna and selected as part of the "Opera tua" competiti...Read more...
Acquired from the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence a bust of Napoleon made by Lorenzo Bartolini
The Accademia Gallery in Florence enriches its collections with a new work: it is a marble bust depicting Napoleon Bonaparte made by Lorenzo Bartolini. As of today, the recent acquisition will be visible in the new display of the Gipsoteca. The scul...Read more...
Forli, the great exhibition on art and fashion at the San Domenico Museums reopens its doors in total safety
Running until July 2, 2023 in the spaces of the San Domenico Museums in Forlì is the exhibition The Art of Fashion. The Age of Dreams and Revolutions 1789 - 1968, conceived and realized by the Fondazione Cassa dei Risparmi di Forlì in c...Read more...
Genoa, the great masters of art from the 1500s to the 1700s in an exhibition at the Royal Palace
The exhibition Highlights. Masters from the 1500s to the 1700s from the National Museums of Genoa is on display until September 24, 2023, in the Falcone Theater of the Royal Palace and is dedicated to the heritage of the collections of the National M...Read more...
Crete Senesi, what to see: itinerary in 10 steps
Not far from Siena, a short distance from the outskirts of the city, heading southeast, one comes across a characteristic, almost lunar landscape: these are the Crete Senesi, the vast area characterized by large areas of barren, clayey soil (hence th...Read more...
Maxi donation of 220 Hans Arp plaster casts to ten international museums
The Berlin-based Stiftung Arp e.V. will donate 220 plaster casts by the Franco-German sculptor Hans Arp to ten museums around the world. This is an unprecedented donation of the celebrated artist's output. More than half of the institutions to which ...Read more...
Florence, at Forte Beldevere the unpublished works of Nico Vascellari
June 24 at Forte Belvedere will see the opening of MELMA, an exhibition by Nico Vascellari (Vittorio Veneto, 1976) curated by Sergio Risaliti, director of the Museo Novecento, promoted by the City of Florence and organized by MUS.E, and the first sta...Read more...
The big names of international photography are coming to Siena. And San Galgano Abbey will be exceptional location
From Sept. 30 to Nov. 19, 2023, the Siena Awards Photo Festival returns: this edition will once again bring big names in international photography to Siena and its environs, engaging the city and the territory. William Albert Allard, with a retrospec...Read more...
Work in culture, vacancies and open positions of the week
As every week, our column dedicated to those looking for jobs in culture returns. Here are vacancies, open positions, calls for applications and opportunities that we have collected during the week of May 27 to June 3, 2023. In Bozen/Bolzano, thePro...Read more...
Art on TV June 5-11: Michelangelo, Piero della Francesca, the Prado Museum
Back from the June 2 bridge? Console yourself with TV programs dedicated to art aired from June 5 to 11. On Rai 3 the airing of Discovering the Golden Bough continues from Monday to Friday at 3:25 pm. On Rai 5 on Wednesday, June 7 at 9:15 p.m. ther...Read more...
A rare early Crucifixion by Beato Angelico goes up for auction in July at Christie's
Going up for auction at Christie' s on July 6 with an estimate of between £4 million and £6 million (€4.6 million to €7 million) is a rare early Crucifixion by Fra Angelico: it will be the highlight of the Old Masters Part I Sale to be held dur...Read more...
At Mo.Ca. in Brescia, the rediscovered archive of photographer-reporter Nicola Sansone
From June 3 to July 16, 2023, Mo.Ca. - Center for New Cultures in Brescia presents Nicola Sansone. The rediscovered archive, curated by Renato Corsini: this is a solo exhibition of Nicola Sansone (1921-1984), an educated and socially engaged photogra...Read more...
Florence, in the Salone dei Duecento of Palazzo Vecchio the Medici tapestries with the Stories of Joseph
From June 2 to Nov. 29, 2023, the Salone dei Duecento of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence will once again host the series of tapestries, owned by the Presidency of the Republic and the Uffizi Galleries, dedicated to the Stories of Joseph and commissioned ...Read more...
A painting by Alessandro Turchi stolen by the Nazis returns to Poland. It had ended up in Japan
Back to Poland is a painting by Alessandro Turchi (Verona, 1578 - Rome, 1649) that had been stolen by the Nazis during World War II and ended up in Japan. It is a Madonna and Child that the Land of the Rising Sun returned to Poland in a ceremony held...Read more...
Environmentalists won: British Museum ends BP sponsorship after 27 years
Environmentalists have won their battle: after 27 years, in fact, the sponsorship that British Petroleum (BP), a British multinational oil company, granted to the British Museum ends. Environmental advocacy groups have long demanded that the London m...Read more...
Places and spaces of the Po Valley territory in Ghirri's shots. On display in Guastalla
Saturday, June 3, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. opens at the Ducal Palace in Guastalla, in the twelve rooms of the main floor, the exhibition Luigi Ghirri: Pollicino's Stones, curated by the GhirriArchive and Culture Councillor Gloria Negri with the scientific a...Read more...
Massa, trample delicate 18th-century stuccoes of Ducal Palace to unfurl flag
An episode that has the unbelievable about it occurred yesterday in Massa for the June 2 celebrations: in fact, in an amateur video you can see two firefighters who, in order to unfurl the Italian flag on the facade of the Ducal Palace, one of the mo...Read more...
Venice, new lighting for the Sansovinian rooms of the Marciana Library
The Sansovinian rooms of the Marciana Library in Venice have new, innovative lighting by lighting designer Romano Baratta. Now, therefore, the Vestibule and the majestic Sansovinian Hall, where masterpieces of Italian art (works by Titian, Tintoretto...Read more...
St. Casciano bronzes among finalists for archaeology's top international prize
The bronzes of San Casciano dei Bagni among the five archaeological discoveries of 2022 finalists for the ninth edition of theInternational Archaeological Discovery Award "Khaled al-Asaad," an award named after the archaeologist from Palmyra who paid...Read more...
Urbino, restorer's complaint: facade of Palazzo Luminati degraded, intervention needed
One of the most interesting historical palaces in the center of Urbino lies in a state of abandonment and degradation: we are talking about Luminati-Lucciarini Palace and to denounce the conditions of the building is a restorer, Antonella Napolione, ...Read more...
First exhibition in Milan for BPER Bank Gallery: contemporary art by Dusi on display
BPER Banca Gallery is presenting for the first time in Milan an exhibition of contemporary art by artist Fabrizio Dusi, curated by Giorgia Ligasacchi. Produced in collaboration with the art team of Pavesio e Associati with Negri-Clementi, under the p...Read more...
Rome, man gets naked inside St. Peter's Basilica
Singular out-of-schedule yesterday afternoon in Rome inside St. Peter's Basilica: a man in fact undressed and climbed, completely naked, onto the high altar, right under Bernini's canopy, before being stopped by the security services. The man wanted ...Read more...
Wim Wenders makes surprise visit to exhibition on Leonardo's drawings at Turin's Royal Library
Special and unexpected visit to the Royal Museums of Turin: award-winning German director Wim Wenders, author of such masterpieces as The Sky Over Berlin and Paris, Texas, visited the exhibition The Genius and His Time. Face to face with Leonardo set...Read more...
In Siena, the Cathedral unveils its marble commesso floor. Here are the dates
Siena Cathedral is returning to discover its marble commesso floor, the result of a complex iconographic program carried out from the 14th century until the 19th century: in fact, it is the result of five hundred years; the preparatory cartoons were ...Read more...
750 archaeological artifacts from clandestine excavations repatriated from London
Presented in Rome, at the National Museum of Castel Sant'Angelo, seven hundred and fifty archaeological finds repatriated from London on May 19, following investigations by the Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale Command, coordinated by the Publi...Read more...
In Mantua and Rome, three exhibitions dedicated to Rubens and the relationship between Italian culture and Europe
From October 7, 2023 to February 18, 2024 Fondazione Palazzo Te, Palazzo Ducale in Mantua, and Galleria Borghese in Rome join forces in an ambitious project to pay homage to Pieter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640). Rubens. The Birth of a Euro...Read more...
Exhibitions in Ferrara, from the Ferrara Renaissance to Guido Harari
Ferrara reminds that two exhibitions at the Estense Castle are still open to the public until June 4, 2023. Carlo Guarienti. The Reality of the Dream and the IX VAF Foundation Prize. The first, the brainchild of Vittorio Sgarbi and organized by Fonda...Read more...
Lucrina Fetti's Portrait of Eleonora Gonzaga for the first time in Rome from Mantua
From June 8 to October 1, 2023, the Portrait of Eleonora Gonzaga (1622), theonly signed and dated portrait by Lucrina Fetti, will be on display at the Pinacoteca dei Musei Capitolini, in Room VI dedicated to Bolognese and Northern Italian painting. T...Read more...
Torlonia Foundation, head returned stolen in 1978 from the Hydrophora
Now theHydrophora sculpture, part of Villa Albani Torlonia's collections, is complete again: in November 1978, the female marble head had been removed from the sculpture's body. Now theCarabinieri - Operational Department Archaeology Section of the C...Read more...
Rome, a major exhibition on 180 years of Italian landscape in photography at the Scuderie del Quirinale
From June 1 to September 3, 2023, the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome is hosting the exhibition Italy is a Desire. Photographs, Landscapes and Visions (1842-2022). The Alinari and Mufoco Collections, organized with Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia...Read more...
Giorgio De Chirico's continuing metaphysics on display in Conegliano
Entitled Giorgio de Chirico. Metaphysics Continues the exhibition with which Palazzo Sarcinelli in Conegliano (Treviso), from Oct. 11, 2023 to Feb. 25, 2024, anticipates the centennial celebrations of Surrealism (1924-2024), a movement of which De Ch...Read more...
Hokusai's life becomes a play. In Bologna on June 30 and July 1
The life of Katsushika Hokusai (Edo, 1760 - 1849), one of Japan's greatest artists, becomes a theatrical performance. On the occasion of the exhibition YÅkai. Ancient Japanese Monster Prints, Bologna is hosting for two days, for the first time in Eu...Read more...
A contemporary Wunderkammer in the village of Tellaro. The exhibition by Donzelli, El Asmar, Sgherri and Landi.
A work that combines the works of four artists, namely Maurizio Donzelli (Brescia, 1958), Elena El Asmar (Florence, 1978), Gianluca Sgherri (Fucecchio, 1962) and Gabriele Landi (Schaerbeek, 1971) occupies the entirety of Fourteen 's small space in th...Read more...
In Rome, an exhibition on Dieter Kopp curated by Giorgio Agamben
Curated by one of the leading philosophers of our time, Giorgio Agamben, the exhibition Dieter Kopp. Tradition and Freedom, on view at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome from May 10 to July 30, traces the more than 50 years of activity of painter ...Read more...
Multimedia Museum of the Italian Language, the first virtual museum on Italian, is born
How did the Italian language come into being? Who established the rules of Italian? How did written Italian circulate? These are some of the questions through which the Multi - Multimedia Museum of the Italian Language, the first virtual museum dedic...Read more...
Auctions May 31 to June 6: antique art, jewelry and automobiles
As we wait for summer to arrive, let's find out the best auctions from May 31 to June 6. Four auctions at Pandolfini: on May 31 there is Wrist and Pocket Watches; through June 5 there is Jewelry; and through June 6 we will have Watches and Vintage: ...Read more...
Will Marino Marini's works leave Pistoia? Council of State agrees with the foundation
In the future, the works of Marino Marini (Pistoia, 1901 - Viareggio, 1980) kept at the Palazzo del Tau in his hometown of Pistoia may leave their home. In fact, the intricate issue concerning Marino Marini's Pistoia works, which was opposed on one s...Read more...
Museums, June 2 and 4 free admission to all state museums
June 2 will be a bridge of free museums for Italians and foreigners. In fact, accomplice to the new free day in all state museums, established by Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano on the occasion of Republic Day, there will in fact be as many as two days ...Read more...
On Rai5 a documentary dedicated to Albrecht Dürer and his self-portraits
Entitled Albrecht Dürer . The Mystery of the Self-Portraits the documentary dedicated to the great German artist Albrecht Dürer (Nuremberg, 1471 - 1528) that will be premiered on Rai 5 on Wednesday, May 31 at 9:15 pm. The documentary, by Fr...Read more...
Toolkit for museum: selection open for free course aimed at museum professionals
Open until June 27, 2023, is the call for applications to participate in the second edition of Toolkit for museum, the free continuing education course aimed at museum professionals curated by the Fondazione Scuola dei beni e delle attività cu...Read more...
Diplomatic immunity: in Lugano, Pedro Wirz's work on immutable class prerogatives
From June 4 to July 23 in Lugano , the Palazzo Reali room of MASI - Museo d'Arte della Svizzera Italiana welcomes Diplomatic Immunity, the project by Brazilian artist Pedro Wirz (Pindamonhangaba, 1981) winner of the 2023 edition of the Bally Artist A...Read more...
Elly Schlein and Giorgia Meloni naked and pregnant: a mural on motherhood in Milan
Elly Schlein and Giorgia Meloni naked and pregnant in a mural by artist AleXsandro Palombo, titled Power is Female. The poster, already published last week and removed in less than 24 hours, transforms the PD secretary and the council president into ...Read more...
The poet and the magician: MAXXI in Rome dedicates an exhibition to Enzo Cucchi
MAXXI in Rome presents an exhibition dedicated to Enzo Cucchi, one of the Transavanguardia artists, entitled The Poet and the Magician, scheduled from May 17 to Sept. 24. Enzo Cucchi is one of the most prolific and innovative artists on the contempor...Read more...
Cremona's first art week kicks off. Here are the works of Cremona Contemporanea
It opened last May 26, and will last until June 4, the highly anticipated Cremona Contemporanea Art Week , an event organized by the Cremona City Council Culture Department. This new art week, in its first edition, sees contemporary art in dialogue w...Read more...
Valentina D'Amaro's evening landscapes are on display at Luca Tommasi's in Milan
From May 25 to July 7, 2023, Luca Tommasi Contemporary Art Gallery in Milan welcomes Valentina D'Amaro 's (Massa, 1966) first solo exhibition at the gallery, Le nuvole non potranno annientare il sole. The exhibition, whose title is inspired by the ve...Read more...
Restoration of six precious paintings by Giacomo Ceruti on display in Gandino
Among the Brescian exhibitions (at least six) dedicated to painter Giacomo Ceruti (Milan, 1698 - 1767) in the year of the Capital of Culture (including the major exhibition Miseria e Nobiltà atthe Museum of Santa Giulia in Brescia), includes a...Read more...
Tourism, Italy is booming with American tourists
While we wait to see the effect that (as Enzo Jannacci would say) the Venus-influencer has on foreign travelers, we can already say that tourism in Italy has restarted in a big way and among foreigners the first are the Americans. And it is a data th...Read more...
The exhibition Legàmi: when sculpture meets fiber art is open in Biella.
The exhibition LEGÀMI - When Sculpture Meets Fiber Art, curated by Dina Pierallini and Valentina Redditi, opened on Saturday, May 20, 2023, and will be on view until Saturday, July 1, 2023. A collection of contemporary artworks by eleven artis...Read more...
They daubed Degas' Dancer: two climate activists face 5 years in prison
They had daubed, last April 27, the display case containing Edgar Degas' celebrated Dancer at the National Gallery in Washington, causing $2,400 in damage and forcing the museum to remove the work for ten days for repairs. Now at great risk are the ...Read more...
Maurizio Cattelan's new intervention: a crocodile hanging in Cremona Baptistery
A large taxidermied crocodile hanging from the vault of Cremona's Baptistery: this is Ego, the work Maurizio Cattelan brought to the Lombard city for the first edition of Cremona Contemporanea Art Week, the Cremonese art week that began the day befor...Read more...
Egypt, largest known mummification laboratory discovered
Egypt 's sand dunes never cease to amaze us: that desert thousands of years and decades of cables later continues to make unique and extraordinarily valuable discoveries. The latest was unveiled with pomp and circumstance by the Minister of Tourism a...Read more...
Andy Warhol violated copyright. U.S. Supreme Court vs. the great artist
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling, more than a year overdue, could change the fate of contemporary art. The ruling is on a case involving some of Andy Warhol's works, and the dispute dates back to 2016, when photographer Lynn Goldsmith, who specializes in ...Read more...
More state and more market: Luigi Abete's recipe for getting our museums developed
More state and more market to develop culture: this, in a nutshell, is the recipe of Luigi Abete, president of the Association of Cultural and Creative Enterprises (AICC) and chairman and CEO of Civita Holding, who spoke at the Culture and Economic D...Read more...
Art on TV May 29 to June 4: Leonardo, Dürer and Titian
Summer is approaching. Let's look forward to it with the best TV programs dedicated to art from May 29 to June 4. On Rai 3 continues the airing of Discovering the Golden Bough from Monday to Friday at 3:20 pm. On Rai 5 on Wednesday, May 31 at 9:15 ...Read more...
Animals drawn on paper from the 18th to the 21st century on display in Rome
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of its opening, Paolo Antonacci's gallery in Rome presents Animalia, drawings on paper from the 18th to the 21st centuries: sixty drawings depicting animals from the private collection of the well-known Roman a...Read more...
Salsomaggiore Terme celebrates 100 years of Terme Berzieri with a major exhibition on Galileo Chini
From May 27 to September 17, 2023, the City of Salsomaggiore Terme is organizing the major exhibition Oro e Oriente. Galileo Chini in Salsomaggiore Terme, curated by Valerio Terraroli and Maurizia Bonatti Bacchini. The exhibition aims to celebrate th...Read more...
Working in culture: calls, open positions and vacancies of the week
Weekly appointment with our column for job seekers in culture. Below are the vacancies, open positions and calls for applications that we have collected during the week of May 19 to 26, 2023. In Turin, the Piedmont Region announces an open competiti...Read more...
Uffizi Lands in Anghiari: an exhibition celebrates two battling intellectuals of the 16th and 17th centuries
From May 27 to September 17, 2023, the Museum of the Battle and Anghiari presents the exhibition Intellectuals in Battle. Fame and Oblivion of Two Literati from the Battle of Anghiari to the Siege of Famagusta, curated by museum director Gabriele Maz...Read more...
A Hand for AIL returns to Milan. Thirty works donated about the city for fundraising auction
Una mano per AIL, thefundraising auction aimed at financing the AIL Accoglie project, returns to Milan. Neighbors Concretely, which brings together all the assistance activities offered free of charge to oncohematology patients and their families. Th...Read more...
Festival dedicated to art and artists' books at MAMbo in Bologna
From Friday, May 26 to Sunday, May 28, 2023, MAMbo in Bologna, in the spaces of Sala delle Ciminiere, will host the first edition of BOOKS, the festival dedicated to art and artists' books, presented by Danilo Montanari Editore in collaboration with ...Read more...
Vatican condemns all forms of violence that attack art
In a Vatican document on tourism, the Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, Monsignor Rino Fisichella, took a stance on eco-vandals, speaking out against their actions. "In caring for works of art, which for centuries have been the patrimo...Read more...
There's a lot of Sardinia in The Little Mermaid, Disney's new live-action film
There is a lot of Sardinia in The Little Mermaid, Disney 's new live action signing in theaters May 24, 2023. Directed by Rob Marshall, written by David Magee, Rob Marshall, John Deluca, produced by Marc Platt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Rob Marshall, John ...Read more...
England, couple have Banksy mural removed from their home: it had become a nightmare
For some it might be the dream of a lifetime to see a mural by a famous artist appear on the outside wall of their home. If the artist in question is Banksy, the world's most fashionable and famous street artist, let alone how one might react, perhap...Read more...
The Baths of Caracalla host large photographs by Letizia Battaglia. And they open two new rooms
Opening on May 27, 2023 at the Terme di Caracalla in Rome is the exhibition Letizia Battaglia Senza Fine, open until November 5, 2023. A tribute to the Sicilian photographer, promoted by the Special Superintendence of Rome directed by Daniela Porro, ...Read more...
Italia Loves Romagna: June 24 at Campovolo the first concert in support of flood victims
Italy Loves Romagna, the first fundraising event that the music world, with the support of the Ministry of Culture, will carry out in support of the flooded populations of Emilia Romagna, will be held onSaturday, June 24, in the already set up perfo...Read more...
A weekend designed for young people at the Florentine Civic Museums, with special events
On May 27 and 28, the Florentine Civic Museums will host the two concluding events of projects curated by MUS.E, conceived by young people for young people: on the one hand, the Teens Project, conceived as part of PCTOs (Pathways for Transversal Skil...Read more...
New Colosseum Park monitoring system developed with space agency unveiled
A new monitoring and maintenance system for the Colosseum Archaeological Park developed in collaboration with theItalian Space Agency was presented today. It is the System for the Protection and Education of Archaeological Heritage (SyPEAH) web platf...Read more...
More than seventy masterpieces from the Capodimonte Museum will be on a six-month trip to the Louvre
From June 7, 2023 to January 8, 2024, the Louvre presents the exhibition Naples à Paris. Le Louvre invite le musée de Capodimonte, reaffirming the collaboration between European museum institutions. More than seventy of the Capodimonte...Read more...
Palazzo Reale in Milan dedicates extensive retrospective exhibition to photographer Mario Dondero
Palazzo Reale in Milan dedicates from June 21 to September 6, 2023 an exhibition to the photographic production of Mario Dondero (Milan, 1928 - Petritoli, 2015), among the protagonists of Italian photography in the second half of the 20th century and...Read more...
At the Gallerie d'Italia in Milan, a journey into the 20th century and the contemporary between painting and sculpture
The Gallerie d'Italia in Milan 's Piazza Scala is hosting from May 26 to October 22, 2023 the exhibition Una collezione inattesa. Viaggio nel contemporaneo tra pittura e scultura, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, Associate Curator of Intesa Sanpaolo'...Read more...
Art Windows editor's interview with The Courier. We reveal the behind-the-scenes
This article, with the original title "Those artists who ended up on the Net," by Chiara Dino, was published in Corriere Fiorentino on May 21, 2023. They started from a blog, but don't worry, it was not about remedies to love ills or aesthetic consu...Read more...
Rivoli Castle seeks new director
The Castello di Rivoli - Museum of Contemporary Art announces the publication of theNotice of Selection for the new Director which will be published at the following link. The new Director will take office as of January 1, 2024.Carolyn Christov-Baka...Read more...
Emilia-Romagna flooding, Blue Helmets of Culture set off. Resources for damaged assets on the way
"Departed this morning the Blue Helmets of Culture. Delivered in the territories ofEmilia-Romagna affected by theflood the material needed to secure the damaged cultural heritage and the working devices for all the staff of the Ministry and the Carab...Read more...
Tate Britain's collection of British art in London completely rearranged
For the first time in a decade, London's Tate Britain has entirely refurbished its collection of British art, the most comprehensive in the world. Visitors can now view more than 800 works by more than 350 artists spanning six centuries. Iconic works...Read more...
Sienese Museums Foundation celebrates its 20th anniversary with a rap, to speak to young people
After al Museo, the rap dedicated to Siena's museums created by the Fondazione Musei Senesi on the occasion of its first twenty years of activity, is born. Five very young people with different ages and experiences; a professional rapper, used to wor...Read more...
Naples, allocated 13 million euros for the restoration of the Maschio Angioino
The Ministry of Culture, through the Directorate General for Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape and the Directorate General for Museums, has allocated 13 million euros for conservative restoration work on the Maschio Angioino, one of Naples' most i...Read more...
Farewell to Tina Turner. Mourning the music world for Simply the best
There goes Tina Turner, the famous singer, Queen of Rock 'n Roll, passed away in Zurich after a long illness at the age of 83. Her spokesman announced this, according to Sky News reports, "Tina Turner, the Queen of Rock 'n Roll, died peacefully today...Read more...
May 24-30 auctions: contemporary art, jewelry and watches
In the new installment of our auction column, we discover the best deals from May 24 to 30. Lots of auctions at Pandolfini's: on May 24 there are Prints and Drawings from the 15th to the 19th century and Books, Manuscripts and Autographs; from May 2...Read more...
Martina Bagnoli is the new director of the Carrara Academy of Bergamo
TheCarrara Academy in Bergamo has a new director: she is Martina Bagnoli, who will take up the post on February 1, 2024, but already in the coming months she will be deployed alongside the museum's team to work on future programming: in particular, s...Read more...
Arezzo celebrates the art of Margarito d'Arezzo, among the greatest interpreters of thirteenth-century painting
From May 25 to July 29, 2023, the National Museum of Medieval and Modern Art of Arezzo presents the small but significant exhibition The Medieval Magisterium of Margarito d'Arezzo - The 'Madonna of the Vertighe' and the Works of the National Museum o...Read more...
Utrecht will have its own Vertical Forest: under construction is the Wonderwoods Vertical Forest
Even the Netherlands will have its own Vertical Forest: the Wonderwoods Vertical Forest, inspired by Milan's Bosco Verticale, is currently under construction in Utrecht. Designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti, it will be 105 meters high and house 360 ...Read more...
In Padua, lights and shadows of the United States through 120 artists and 130 works
From Sept. 13, 2023 to Jan. 21, 2023, the Centro Culturale Altinate San Gaetano in Padua presents the exhibition American Beauty, curated by Daniel Buso and organized by ARTIKA in collaboration with Kr8te and the City of Padua. On display will be a ...Read more...
Coming to Milan, the Van Gogh Immersive Experience: a 360-degree immersion in the works of the famous artist
From June 1 to December 2023, Lampo Scalo Farini in Milan welcomes thanks to Exhibition Hub, a specialist in the design and production of immersive multimedia exhibitions, and Fever, a leading platform for live entertainment, the immersive event Van ...Read more...
Contemporary art arrives in twenty villages of Italy: Una Boccata d'Arte returns
From June 24 to September 24, 2023, Una Boccata d'Arte, the contemporary art project promoted by Fondazione Elpis in collaboration with Galleria Continua and with the participation of Threes, returns. Each year twenty villages throughout Italy, one f...Read more...
Faenza, fundraiser launched to support the flood-affected world of ceramics
Theflood that hitEmilia Romagna in recent days has severely damaged in Faenza many workshops, workshops, and studios of ceramic artists. The Municipality of Faenza, in collaboration with theFaenza Ceramics Board and MIC - Museo Internazionale delle ...Read more...
Government raises museum tickets: proceeds for flood damage
A temporary increase in museum tickets to deal with the damage caused by the flooding in Emilia Romagna, particularly the damage suffered by cultural property. This is one of the measures adopted by the Meloni government in a decree-law containing ur...Read more...
Faenza's Carlo Zauli Museum starts fundraiser to repair flood damage
In Emilia Romagna, theflood caused considerable damage to the Carlo Zauli Museum in Faenza; damage to the collection of works, to the rooms dedicated to exhibition space, to part of the facilities, to the garden, to the halls, and to all the spaces u...Read more...
Malta, itinerary in the footsteps of Caravaggio and the Order of the Knights, from Valletta to the Three Cities
In the Lives of the historiographer Giovan Pietro Bellori we read that "Caravaggio reputasi felicissimo con l'honore della Croce," referring to when the famous painter obtained the title of Knight of Malta thanks to the portrait he painted for the Gr...Read more...
Cinema in Feast returns: from June 11 to 15, all movies for only ?3.50
Cinema in Festa is back, the initiative proposed to the public by Anica and Anec with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the collaboration of the David di Donatello - Academy of Italian Cinema, which every year, in June and September, provide...Read more...
Venice, June and September free guided tours with museum directors
In Venice, Dorsoduro Museum Mile, the cultural journey through eight centuries of art history along the Dorsoduro sestiere, which brings together Gallerie dell'Accademia, Galleria di Palazzo Cini, Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Punta della Dogana, p...Read more...
At the Uffizi, directors and representatives of historic gardens from across Europe for a forum
On May 25, 2023, the Uffizi Galleries will host the Forum of the European Route of Historic Gardens, entitled A Europe of United Gardens. Directors and representatives of historic gardens from all over Europe, along with specialists and scholars, wil...Read more...
Graffiti in front of monuments to promote escort site: marketing campaign causes debate
Advertising graffiti in front of Italian monuments: this is the singular marketing campaign that has been designed to advertise Escort Advisor, a well-known escort review site, which recently compiled rankings of Italy's best and worst municipalities...Read more...
Genoa, for the first time Palazzo Nicolosio Lomellino opens up to contemporary art
For the first time, all the sixteenth-century spaces of Palazzo Nicolosio Lomellino in Genoa welcome the intervention of a contemporary artist: it is the exhibition Agapanthus by Francesco Diluca (Milan, 1979), which in fact presents thirty unpublish...Read more...
For the 30th anniversary of the Georgofili Massacre, the Uffizi revives a major exhibition
It was the night of May 26-27, 1993, when a Mafia bombing struck the heart of Florence, killing five innocent people (Fabrizio Nencioni, 39, his wife Angela Fiume, 31, their daughters Nadia, 9, and Caterina, 50 days old, and Dario Capolicchio, 22) an...Read more...
Flanders, final phase of restoration of the Mystic Lamb Polyptych begins
The third and final phase of the restoration of the Polyptych of the Mystical Lamb, a masterpiece by Jan and Hubert Van Eyck dated 1432, has begun: the work was awarded through a European tender to the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK/IRPA)...Read more...
150 pieces from the deposits of the MANN in Naples go on display in Barcelona
One hundred and fifty pieces from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples are going on a trip to Barcelona where, from May 31 to October 15, at the Museo Marítim, the exhibition Pompeya, el último gladiator is scheduled, an interna...Read more...
Santanchè: Let's all go on vacation to Romagna. It feels good and you make a gesture of solidarity
"Let's all go on vacation to Romagna": this is the proposal of Tourism Minister Daniela Santanchè, interviewed by La Stampa, to "avert the economic tragedy." The minister said she will be in Rimini and Riccione in a few days to invite "Italian...Read more...
Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice announces major exhibition dedicated to Willem de Kooning
In conjunction with the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, a major exhibition dedicated to Willem de Kooning, among the most innovative and influential artists of the 20th century, will be held at the Gallerie dell'Accademia in...Read more...
Chiara Dynys donates her illuminating magic books to the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia
In line with her own artistic research on the themes of knowledge and individual awareness through books that "illuminate" our existential journey, Chiara Dynys presents Enlightening Grimoires (2021-22), the large site-specific installation that the ...Read more...
Desert Italy, the photo exhibition at MUSE in Trento on the impacts of the climate crisis
The photographic exhibition Deserto Italia by Stefano Torrione opens at the MUSE - Museum of Science in Trento on June 16, 2023, on the occasion of World Desertification and Drought Day. Alps without snow, rivers without water, lakes at their lowest,...Read more...
Florence, Fratelli d'Italia proposes creating a Medici Museum at the Villa di Careggi
A Medici Museum may soon be built at the Villa Medicea Careggi, one of the oldest of the villas belonging to the powerful Florentine family. Located in the suburban district of Careggi on the outskirts of Florence, it was built to a design by Michelo...Read more...
Horseback riding and historical re-enactments to enhance the Carditello Palace?
Horseback riding and historical re-enactments to enhance the Reggia di Carditello? This seems to be the idea of the chairman of the Culture, Science and Education Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, Federico Mollicone, who visited the Royal Site o...Read more...
Is the angel in his master Peterzano's Deposition by Caravaggio? The hypothesis
Is the angel depicted in Simone Peterzano 's Deposition of Christ preserved at the church of San Giorgio in Bernate Ticino, in the province of Milan, by a very young Caravaggio ? It could be: the hypothesis is by restorer Carmelo Lo Sardo, who had in...Read more...
The 500th anniversary of Vicino Orsini, the patron of the Bosco di Bomarzo: a summer of events
This year marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of Pierfrancesco Orsini, known as Vicino (Rome, July 4, 1523 - Bomarzo, Jan. 28, 1585), lord of Bomarzo, to whom we owe the Sacred Wood of Bomarzo, one of the masterpieces of Mannerist art (we also d...Read more...
Milan, the duo Bertozzi & Casoni at Carlocinque Gallery with their stunning ceramics
In Milan, Carlocinque Gallery opens from May 19 to July 25 the exhibition Mirabili Tracce by Bertozzi & Casoni, the great ceramic duo composed of Paolo Bertozzi and Stefano Casoni. An unsettling lady smiles from the window on Via dell'Annunciata,...Read more...
In Brazil they build a replica of the Trevi Fountain in the midst of palm trees
Does it make sense to copy works of art? Or rather, does it make sense to copy works of art, be they sculptures or paintings or buildings, and use the copy in its own context to beautify it as in the original location? The question arises these days ...Read more...
Jobs in culture, the week's vacancies and open positions
The appointment with the column for those looking for jobs in culture is back. Here are for you vacancies, open positions and competitions that we have collected during the week of May 12 to 19, 2023. In Lugano (Switzerland), LAC Lugano Arte e Cultu...Read more...
Art on TV May 22-28: Ars erotica, Perugino and Vermeer
New appointment with our column of TV programs dedicated to art! Here is what we will see from May 22 to 28. On Rai 3 continues the airing of Discovering the Golden Bough from Monday to Friday at 3:25 pm. On Rai 5 Tuesday, May 23 at 7:03 p.m. will ...Read more...
At the Museo di Roma in Trastevere, the Giro d'Italia through never-before-seen shots from the Riccardi Historical Archives
From May 24 to June 18, 2023, the Museo di Roma in Trastevere welcomes the exhibition Il Giro. A History of Italy, curated by Maurizio Riccardi and Giovanni Currado: a never-before-seen body of photographs comprising more than one hundred images draw...Read more...
Giovanni Soccol's unpublished Venetian night reflections at the Fortuny Museum
Until October 2, 2023, the Fortuny Museum in Venice is hosting on the ground floor the exhibition Giovanni Soccol. Nocturnal Reflections, curated by Chiara Squarcina and promoted by the City of Venice and the Fondazione Musei Civici Veneziani. A cycl...Read more...
In Ortigia, at the Vermexio Palace, an immersive journey into ancient culture
Until October 31, 2023, the Vermexio Palace in Ortigia (Syracuse) is hosting Argentovivo. Experience, Dream, Tale: is an immersive journey into ancient culture. A combination of tradition and technology, thanks to which the protagonists of the exhibi...Read more...
Milan, giant boats in which gold flows: Fabrizio Plessi's installation at Palazzo Reale
From June 27 to September 10, 2023, the Sala delle Cariatidi of the Palazzo Reale in Milan will host Fabrizio Plessi 'ssite-specific installation entitled Mariverticali: gigantic boats, inside which a continuous flow of gold flows on television scree...Read more...
They look alive: in Rome, the exhibition of hyperrealist sculptures at Palazzo Bonaparte
Maurizio Cattelan, Ron Mueck, George Segal, Carole Feuerman and many more are the protagonists of the exhibition"LOOKING ALIVE! Hyperrealist Sculptures by the Greatest Contemporary Artists," scheduled from May 26 to October 8, 2024 at Palazzo Bonapar...Read more...
Nearly 2 million passengers and 500 thousand kilos of CO2 saved in one month for Luca Font's street art train
1,700,000 passengers, for 11,000 rides and 500,000 kg of CO2 saved: these are the numbers of the month that saw the debut in Brescia of the art train signed by street artist Luca Font, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the inauguration of th...Read more...
Triennale Milano presents a fresh look at arte povera, with 250 works by the greatest artists
Until September 3, 2023 Triennale Milano hosts the exhibition Reversing the Eye. Photography, Film and Video in the Years of Arte Povera, curated by Quentin Bajac, Director of Jeu de Paume, Diane Dufour, Director of LE BAL, Giuliano Sergio, independe...Read more...
On Sunday, May 21, more than 400 Italian Historic Houses will be open for free visits
Sunday, May 21, 2023 marks the return of the National Day of the Italian Historic Houses Association, now in its 13th edition. More than 400 exclusive places such as castles, fortresses, villas, parks and gardens will be open to visitors free of cha...Read more...
Competition 518 Culture Ministry officials: remedial sessions for residents flooded municipalities
The Ministry of Culture announces in a note that residents in the flooded municipalities of Emilia-Romagna and Marche, who will not be able to take part in the competition for the recruitment of 518 officials (non-managerial, full-time, permanent sta...Read more...
Emilia-Romagna flood, region's first reconnaissance of damage to cultural heritage
The Emilia-Romagna Region is working on a reconnaissance of the damage to cultural heritage that occurred as a result of theflood that hit the region, and in particular Bologna and Romagna. It is premature to make an overall assessment of the damage ...Read more...
Florence, restored the Chapel of St. Nicholas in the Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata
Begun in October 2021, restoration work on the Chapel of St. Nicholas of the Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata in Florence was completed last January. Owned since 1353 by the del Palagio family, the chapel, the first on the right as you enter the...Read more...
Museums, AD Arte will not be sole sales channel for tickets. And dealers will remain
Halt by the General Directorate of Museums after last May 11's sending of an internal note to the autonomous museums, in which the institutes were asked to prepare to free themselves from the concessionaires of the ticket offices in order to manage t...Read more...
Glasgow, rejected subway advertisement with Michelangelo's David: pea can be seen
Just weeks after the American teacher was forced to resign from her school for showing Michelangelo's statue of David to her students, now it is from Scotland that comes another blow of misplaced puritanism for Michelangelo's masterpiece. Italian res...Read more...
Flood, Sangiuliano: Now support for evacuees, then monitoring heritage damage
"Now is the time to think about people, solidarity with the families of the victims and active support for the displaced. Then we will start monitoring the damage to the artistic heritage of Emilia Romagna and plan the necessary interventions. When p...Read more...
In Milan the tenth edition of the fundraising auction Una Mano per AIL (A Hand for AIL)
OnMonday, May 29, 2023 at 7:30 p.m., the 10th edition of Una mano per AIL (A Hand for AIL), thefundraising auction aimed at financing the AIL Accoglie project, will be held at Palazzo Clerici, Christie's Milan headquarters. Neighbors Concretely, whic...Read more...
Antiquarian Fabrizio Moretti donates Mannerist Niccolò Betti's Risen Christ to the Uffizi
Antiquarian, collector and secretary-general of the Florence Biennale Internazionale dell'Antiquariato Fabrizio Moretti has donated to the Uffizi Galleries a valuable panel by Tuscan Mannerist painter Niccolò Betti (Florence, c. 1550 - c. 1618...Read more...
The world of Igort on display at Palazzo Blu in Pisa, with original drawings of his greatest hits
From May 18 to September 10, 2023 Palazzo Blu in Pisa is hosting the exhibition Crossing Forms where the protagonist is the world of Igort. "Illustrator, cartoonist, painter, musician, director, publisher: Igort is among the most interesting intellec...Read more...
At the Scuderie del Quirinale a major exhibition dedicated to Calvino for the centenary of his birth
A preview of the major exhibition dedicated to Italo Calvino (Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba 1923 - Siena 1985), which will open in October 2023 in Rome at the Scuderie del Quirinale, was presented at the XXXV edition of the Turin International Book Fai...Read more...
Sybaris, students teach inmates 3D printing to reproduce archaeological finds
With the last lesson held this week in the halls of the Hippodameo module of the National Archaeological Museum of the Sibaritide , in Sibari , Calabria, the second phase of Copycat - replicable hopes officially kicks off. A project in the course of ...Read more...
Golfo dei Poeti, what to see: 10 villages not to be missed
One thinks of the Gulf of the Poets and one's imagination immediately runs to the beautiful colorful villages that overlook the waters of eastern Liguria, the steep cliffs that provide unique views of the world, the literati who passed through here (...Read more...
Emilia-Romagna flooding, MiC launches fundraiser and organizes event with artists
The Ministry of Culture has launched a fundraising drive to support the people and entities inEmilia-Romagna and Marche severely affected by the flooding in recent hours. The Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual has instructed Cinecitt&agra...Read more...
Emilia-Romagna flooding, first damage to museums, churches and cultural heritage recorded
The damage to cultural heritage is beginning to be counted after theflood that hitEmilia Romagna in recent hours, causing, to date, 13 deaths, and billions in damage to businesses and individuals. However, the situation, the Regional Secretariat of t...Read more...
Cannes Film Festival: red carpet for Wim Wenders and Anselm Kiefer. Presented the 3D film about the artist
Among the special screenings at the 76th Cannes Film Festival is Anselm (Das Rauschen der Zeit), the documentary dedicated to one of the greatest contemporary artists-Anselm Kiefer. The film is directed by Wim Wenders and was produced by Road Movies....Read more...
Ravenna's Classis Museum is reception hub for people evacuated due to flooding
Until the end of theflood emergency that is affectingEmilia Romagna these days, the Classis Ravenna - Museum of the City and Territory will be a reception hub for residents who have had to abandon their homes and for their pets. In fact, cots have be...Read more...
Milan, the waterways of Mediolanum on display at the Civic Archaeological Museum
Illustrating the multiple uses and management systems of water in Milan in ancient times, highlighting how this resource marked its history and prosperity, the exhibition The Ways of Water in Mediolanum scheduled from May 17 until March 31, 2024, in ...Read more...
Poldi Pezzoli's works on display at Milan's Central Station. In digital format
Eighteen works from Milan 's Poldi Pezzoli Museum will be on display at Milan's Central Station. We are not, however, talking about the originals, but rather their digital versions, which will be projected on the new high-definition big screens that ...Read more...
Urbino, at the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche an exhibition dedicated to the Ducal Palace
The Ducal Palace of Urbino. TheFragments and the Whole is the title of the exhibition opening at the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino from April 27 to November 5, 2023, a contemporary reinterpretation of the jewel of Italian Renaissance ar...Read more...
At Sperlonga Archaeological Museum an exhibition on Ulysses and his travels through finds from the deposits
From May 18 to July 30, 2023, the Archaeological Museum of Sperlonga (Latina) presents the exhibition Deposits (re)discovered... in Sperlonga - Ulysses and his travels. The exhibition is the result of a collaboration between the National Roman Museum...Read more...
In Naples, Gallerie d'Italia dedicates exhibition to Mario Schifano, featuring more than fifty works
From June 2 to October 29, 2023, the Naples branch of the Gallerie d'Italia will host the exhibition Mario Schifano: the New Imaginary. 1960-1990, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, dedicated to one of the most important Italian artists of the 20th cen...Read more...
Verona, Dante becomes a robot and acts as an exhibition guide
Leading up to the mountain of Purgatory, My Purgatory. Dante prophet of hope, the multimedia exhibition curated by essayist and pedagogue Franco Nembrini with illustrations by Gabriele Dell'Otto. On view until May 31 in the exclusive spaces of Caste...Read more...
May 17-23 auctions: 19th century art, stamps and coins
New appointment with our column dedicated to auctions. Here are the best deals from May 17 to 23. Pandolfini opens two auctions on May 23: 19th-century Paintings and Antique Paintings. Four auctions at Wannnes: on May 17 there is Furniture, Sculptu...Read more...
Arena of Verona will be able to end opera performances at 1 a.m.
The Verona City Council passed a resolution yesterdayauthorizing the holding of performances of theArena di Verona 's 100th opera festival until1 a.m., due to thepublic interest related to the festival's centennial celebrations. The performances will...Read more...
Virtual tour through the history of the Vatican Specola, one of the world's oldest astronomical observatories
The Vatican Observatory, which can be considered one of the oldest astronomical observatories in the world, presents the virtual tour of its history present at the domes building in the Papal Villas(Barberini Domes) and of the historic telescopes in ...Read more...
Isa Vince Tutto, the webcomic inspired by Isabella d'Este, returns. Second series kicks off
Back with twenty-four more episodes to read each week on the web and in print in La Gazzetta di Mantova is the webcomic Isa Vince Tutto. The brainchild of Mantua's Ducal Palace director Stefano L'Occaso and produced by Rulez, Isa is a comic strip loo...Read more...
Florence, future St. Ursula Museum opens to public in former convent closed for 40 years
Theformer monastery of St. Ursula in Florence, which has been closed for nearly four decades, will reopen to the public for a month, from June 1 to July 2, 2023 on the occasion of the exhibition Beyond the Walls of St. Ursula. With this exhibition ev...Read more...
At the Museo degli Innocenti, Steve McCurry's major exhibition entirely dedicated to children
From May 19 to Oct. 8, 2023, the Museo degli Innocenti in Florence will host photographer Steve McCurry's new exhibition, Children, entirely dedicated tochildhood. Through a hundred photographs of children from every corner of the world, portrayed in...Read more...
The Little America Foundation has offered 2.5 million to buy Cinema America
The Piccolo America Foundation has offered 2.5 million euros to the Progetto Uno Srl property to purchase Cinema America, while also assuming the costs of restoring the structure. The historic experience born in Trastevere more than a decade ago, bas...Read more...
At the Pinacoteca di Brera an exhibition entirely dedicated to Boccaccio Boccaccino
In Milan, from May 16 to Sept. 3, 2023, the Pinacoteca di Brera is hosting a new stage of the "Dialogues," the series of exhibitions-focuses by which the museum brings works from its collection face to face with guests: this is, in particular, the fi...Read more...
Rome, two important 17th-century fragments of a large fresco by Ludovico David discovered
Important discovery at the Command of the Carabinieri Legion "Lazio" in Piazza del Popolo in Rome. In fact, it has been ascertained that two portions of a fresco, whose author and origin were unknown, which were kept at the end of the first ramp of t...Read more...
One of Basquiat's most important paintings sold at auction for $67 million
Sold for $67.1 million at a Christie's auction held in New York on May 15 for one of Jean-Michel Basquiat's most important masterpieces, El Gran Espectaculo (The Nile), which the artist made in 1983 when he was only 22 years old. Estimated at $45 mil...Read more...
At the Central Institute for Graphics the graphic production of women artists from the 20th century to the present day
From May 17 to July 23, 2023 at theCentral Institute for Graphics, in the Palazzo della Calcografia, the exhibition Women Artists. Paths in Graphics from the 20th Century to the Present, curated by Luisa De Marinis and Ilaria Fiumi Sermattei. Promote...Read more...
The Next Museum, a multimedia and immersive space, opens two locations in Italy, in Turin and Rome
Arriving in Italy for the first time is the Next Museum, a new fully multimedia, immersive, and technological space born from the experience of Next Exhibition staff. The Next Museum will not house paintings or historical artifacts, but will be animm...Read more...
Dedicated to blue the next issue of Windows on Art Magazine. The full table of contents
There is time until May 17 to subscribe to Finestre sull' Arte magazine, the quarterly print magazine of Finestre sull'Arte: four issues a year for only €39.90, plus postage(click here to subscribe or for more information), with single copies at â‚...Read more...
David image must be authorized: Academy Gallery wins lawsuit against publishing house
The use of the image of Michelangelo's David must be authorized, all the more so if the use is for advertising purposes: the Court of Florence ruled this today, recognizing the existence of the right to the image of cultural goods and agreeing with t...Read more...
Genoa celebrates poet Wislawa Szymborska, 1996 Nobel laureate in literature, with a monograph
From June 16, 2023, the monographic exhibition Wislawa Szymborska. The Joy of Writing, curated by Sergio Maifredi and mounted by set designer Michal Jandura, with the scientific advice and collaboration of Andrea Ceccherelli and Luigi Marinelli. Prod...Read more...
Venice, Doge's Palace armored: tonight and tomorrow is Bulgari's VIP dinner
In Venice today and tomorrow the Doge's Palace will be armored, at least in the evenings: it has in fact been rented by Bulgari , which will give five days of festivities, between the Doge's Palace and other venues in the city, on the occasion of the...Read more...
PaperManzoni, the new Disney volume to mark 150 years since Manzoni's death
On the occasion of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Alessandro Manzoni's death, Giunti is publishing from May 17, 2023 PaperManzoni, the new Disney volume inspired by the famous author and his great masterpiece, I Promessi Sposi (The Betro...Read more...
Sotheby's launches a partnership with a school and raffles off 3 scholarships for children
For the first time Sotheby's Italy is making a partnership with a school, namely BDC School, an international bilingual school, and is offering 3 scholarships as prizes. This is the Art Business project, an educational initiative that aims to demonst...Read more...
Faenza, flood devastates archives and collections of historic Bottega Gatti
An art heritage destroyed by the flood that hit Faenza in early May: it is that of thehistorical archive of Bottega Gatti, a ceramics workshop opened in 1928 by Riccardo Gatti. The flooding of the Lamone River mainly affected the neighborhood of Borg...Read more...
Milan, Mario Carrieri's Beloved Flowers on display at Gallerie d'Italia
Beloved Flowers 2023: this is the title of an exhibition by Mario Carrieri (Milan, 1932) that is on view until June 4 at the Milan branch of the Gallerie d'Italia. Mario Carrieri(Milan, 1932) has been a leading figure in Italian photography ever sin...Read more...
Identikit of the cultural tourist 2022: spends big, visits villages and loves nature
Italy's vast cultural heritage is the second most important motivation for tourists to vacation in our country, after nature. This is according to a survey, covering data for 2022, conducted by Isnart (National Institute for Tourism Research) for t...Read more...
Cultural heritage images, MiC clarifications: no fee for scientific journals and theses
Scientific journals on theAnvur list and academic theses will not have to pay any fees for reproducing images of cultural heritage. This was explained today by the head of the Legislative Office of the Ministry of Culture, Antonio Tarasco, responding...Read more...
Request for rectification under Article 8 Law 47/1948
In relation to the article Why it is completely useless to try to identify the landscape of the Mona Lisa of May 5, 2023, we publish the following request for correction (ex art. 8 Law 47/1948 as amended) that reaches us from Carla Glori. I have r...Read more...
Socialist realism. Origins, development and main exponents
Socialist Realism was an artistic trend that emerged and imposed itself in theUSSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) from the mid-1920s, following the 1917 revolution, Lenin's death and Stalin's subsequent 1924 rise to power. Socialist Realis...Read more...
Constructivism. History and style of the Russian avant-garde movement.
Constructivism was an avant-garde movement that developed in Russia in the ideological and cultural context of the years around the 1917 Revolution and together with Suprematism constitutes one of the two main Soviet artistic currents of the early 20...Read more...
Suprematism. History and style of the Russian avant-garde movement.
Suprematism was an avant-garde movement theorized by the Russian painter Kazimir SeverinoviÄ MaleviÄ (Kiev, 1879 - Leningrad, 1935) around 1913, which together with Constructivism constitutes one of the two main Soviet artistic currents of the earl...Read more...
Rome, a project starts at Palazzo delle Esposizioni to host works by artists-in-residence
Rome, a portrait is the first edition of a project that will transform, on an annual basis, the Palazzo delle Esposizioni into a privileged observatory on the visions and research of foreign artists and scholars who spend a period of residence in Rom...Read more...
Work in culture, the week's vacancies, positions and competitions
As every week, the appointment with the column for those looking for jobs in culture is renewed. Jobs, open positions and competitions that we have gathered in the week of May 5-12, 2023. In Milan, Giorgio Armani is looking for an Editorial Press Of...Read more...
At the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, the major exhibition on the Amazon by Sebastião Salgado
From May 12 to November 19, 2023, the Cathedral spaces in Fabbrica del Vapore will host the major exhibition Sebastião Salgado. Amazônia, promoted and produced by Comune di Milano|Cultura, Fabbrica del Vapore and Contrasto with Civita Mo...Read more...
At Casa Zegna the path between art and nature by Roberto Coda Zabetta
From May 20 to November 12, 2023, Fondazione Zegna presents a new chapter in the journey between art and nature in Trivero Valdilana (Biella) with the exhibition And the Garden Created Man, a project specially conceived for Casa Zegna by artist Rober...Read more...
Art on TV May 15-21: Doisneau, Munch and Botticelli
New appointment with our column of TV programs dedicated to art! Here is the schedule from May 15 to 21. On Rai 3 the airing of Discovering the Golden Bough continues from Monday to Friday at 3.25 pm. On Rai 5 from Monday to Wednesday at 7:25 p.m. ...Read more...
Barberini Cinema and National Galleries of Ancient Art together to promote the Barberini District
The reopening six months ago of the Cinema Barberini gave new life to the cultural system of the so-called Barberini District. With the aim of further enhancing and promoting the development of the area, the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica and the ...Read more...
Bastianini's Self-Portrait goes to Casole d'Elsa for new Uffizi Diffusi stage
The Uffizi Diffusi 's new exhibition stop in Casole d'Elsa (Siena) features an important artist's self-portrait by Casole painter Augusto Bastianini (Monteguidi, 1875 - Florence 1938), which will remain on display at the Museo Civico di Casole from M...Read more...
Stefano Arienti's works, almost all previously unpublished, populate the museum and garden of Villa Carlotta
On Saturday, May 13, 2023, Stefano Arienti 's solo exhibition entitled Quadrante solare, curated by Fulvio Chimento in collaboration with Carlotta Minarelli, and organized by Ente Villa Carlotta with the support of Associazione Controcorrente, will o...Read more...
In Venice, Fondazione Prada puts art in dialogue with the weather
From May 20 to November 26, 2023, the spaces of the historic palace of Ca' Corner della Regina, the Venetian headquarters of Fondazione Prada, will host Everybody Talks About the Weather. A research exhibition conceived and curated by Dieter Roelstra...Read more...
Farewell to Stefano Casoni of the Bertozzi&Casoni duo. Paolo Bertozzi: we were one person
Stefano dal Monte Casoni, a ceramic genius who, together with his friend and workmate Giampaolo Bertozzi, formed the celebrated duo Bertozzi & Casoni, has passed away after a long illness that took him away at the age of sixty-two. In fact, Stefa...Read more...
Museo Casa Siviero, owned by the Region of Tuscany, will be renovated and fully accessible
The Casa Siviero Museum, the 19th-century mansion on Lungarno Serristori in Florence that was inhabited by Rodolfo Siviero and that he donated to the Region, which is now home to the museum named after the famous "art detective," will undergo a thoro...Read more...
Uncovered in the University of Trieste Historical Archives an unpublished letter by Svevo
An unpublished letter by Italo Svevo has been found in the Historical Archives of theUniversity of Trieste, thanks to the research work conducted by Trieste scholar Lorenzo Ielen, PhD of UniTS. The discovery was made known at the Miramare Castle duri...Read more...
An exhibition in Reggio Emilia reflects on nature starting with the photographs of Luigi Ghirri
The Palazzo dei Musei in Reggio Emilia is hosting the exhibition A Foot in Eden until February 25, 2024. Luigi Ghirri and Other Looks. Gardens in Europe and The Architecture of Trees, curated by Ilaria Campioli. Starting with the work of Luigi Ghirri...Read more...
Metropolitan Museum of Art announces loan agreement with Sicilian Region
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has announced a new collaboration agreement with the Region of Sicily, which includes long-term loans of ancient masterpieces to the museum and three-year loans between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the...Read more...
The MarteS Museum showcases Ceruti's three Sorlini canvases and his only autograph document known to date
Until July 30, 2023, the Sorlini Art Museum in Calvagese della Riviera (Brescia) is hosting the exhibition PerDiana! Giacomo Ceruti, masterpieces between Lombardy and Veneto, curated by Stefano Lusardi. The exhibition revolves around three works by G...Read more...
Revolution in the management of autonomous museum ticket offices: they will go back in-house
Revolution in the management of museum ticketing: the circular that the General Directorate of Museums sent to autonomous museums yesterday introduces a novelty that actually reorganizes the sector after a good 30 years. In fact, the management of th...Read more...
An immersive room lets you enter the gestural and creative world of Emilio Vedova
On the occasion of the exhibition Rivoluzione Vedova conceived and designed by Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova and co-produced with M9 - Museo del '900, Vitruvio Virtual Reality curated, conceived and created the site-specific video installatio...Read more...
Buongiorno Ceramica! the widespread celebration of Italian Ceramics across the peninsula is back
Saturday, May 20 and Sunday, May 21, 2023 Buongiorno Ceramica! is back, the widespread celebration of Italian Ceramics now in its ninth edition organized by AiCC, Italian Association of Ceramic Cities. Two days under the banner ofcraftsmanship and cr...Read more...
7 out of 10 insiders disapprove of ecoactivists' actions against art
According to a survey by the Foundation School of Cultural Heritage and Activities, 7 out of 10 insiders disapprove of the actions of eco-activists against cultural heritage. Culture, cultural heritage and climate change is the title of the survey th...Read more...
A digital artist created a special videomapping for the facade of Casa Batlló
Turkish digital artist Refik Anadol created exclusively for the facade of Barcelona 's Casa Batlló the video-mapping work Living Architecture, on the occasion of the Digital Impact exhibition and the 200th anniversary of Passeig de Gràc...Read more...
Trieste, new traces of ancient Tergeste emerge during water works
During the works conducted by AcegasApsAmga S.p.A. for the repair of a water mains pipe, new traces of ancient Tergeste have emerged in Piazza della Repubblica, at Via Mazzini. The Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio FVG in agreement ...Read more...
The Boxer and Winged Victory, the two bronzes exhibited together for the first time in Brescia's Capitolium
TheMunicipality of Brescia and Fondazione Brescia Musei with the Museo Nazionale Romano unveil the new exhibition project for the year of Bergamo Brescia Italian Capital of Culture: The Boxer and the Victory. The Boxer at Rest, from the National Roma...Read more...
Johnny Depp will return behind the camera for a biopic on Amedeo Modigliani
It had already been announced last summer but now comes official confirmation: twenty-five years after his first film as a director, Johnny Depp is returning behind the camera for a biopic inspired by the life of Amedeo Modiglianiand, according to a ...Read more...
African contemporary art enters the spaces of the Ca' Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art
From May 20 to October 1, 2023, Ca' Pesaro - International Gallery of Modern Art in Venice hosts AFRICA 1:1 Five African Artists at Ca' Pesaro, an exhibition of site-specific works created by five artists from the African art scene, invited to Venice...Read more...
Rolli Days has a positive socioeconomic impact on the city of Genoa
In recent years, the Rolli Days, a leading event in the Genoese cultural scene, has also been confirmed at the national level as a positive example of promoting the UNESCO heritage of the city of Genoa. Until now, however, ananalysis of the impact of...Read more...
MAN in Nuoro dedicates exhibition to Matisse sculptor, little-known aspect of his career
The MAN museum in Nuoro is hosting from July 14 to Nov. 12, 2023 the exhibition Matisse/Metamorphosis, an exhibition project that aims to shed light on a little-known aspect in the production of the famous French artist Henri Matisse, related to the ...Read more...
Tickets again available for the major Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum. Here's how to buy them
For thelast weekend of the major exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam dedicated to Vermeer, the museum has decided to extend its opening hours: in fact, the exhibition will be open until 02:00 on the nights of Friday, June 2 and Saturday, June ...Read more...
European Night of Museums: special evening opening on May 13 for 1 euro
The European Night of Museums is back. Saturday, May 13, 2023 will see the nineteenth edition of the initiative organized by the French Ministry of Culture and sponsored by UNESCO, the Council of Europe and ICOM, which provides for theextraordinary e...Read more...
A ten-meter Venus of Rags in the square and many other installations for Napoli Contemporanea 2023
Naples Contemporary 2023 kicks off with exhibitions and installations: programming curated by Vincenzo Trione was presented by Mayor Gaetano Manfredi. The aim of the project is to strengthen the city's vocation for the contemporary through a series o...Read more...
Reggia di Caserta awarded third Michelin star
The Royal Palace of Caserta gets its third star from Le Guide Vert Michelin, the highest award given to a tourist site. The award ceremony will be held on Friday, May 12. Coinciding with the anniversary of Luigi Vanvitelli's birthday, in the Royal P...Read more...
Centre Pompidou will close from 2025 to 2030 for renovations
The Centre Pompidou in Paris, among the most important museums of modern and contemporary art in the world, will close completely to the public for five years, from the end of 2025 to 2030, for renovation and modernization works, as stated by Culture...Read more...
This summer at Palazzo Strozzi the largest exhibition ever dedicated in Italy to Yan Pei-Ming
From July 7 to September 3, 2023, Palazzo Strozzi in Florence will host Yan Pei-Ming, Painter of Stories, the largest exhibition ever dedicated in Italy to the French-Chinese artist, part of the Palazzo Strozzi Future Art project developed with the H...Read more...
Breraviglie: illustrated captions and rhyming rhymes recount the masterpieces of the Brera Art Gallery
As of May 10, 2023, the Pinacoteca di Brera will be enriched with a new way to read the museum's works: Breraviglie - Wonders of Brera Painted in Rhyme. The new project will make available to all visitors a new free audio guide and a new set of seven...Read more...
In Arezzo, an exhibition investigates the relationship between Afro and the great masters of the past
From June 2 to October 22, 2023, the Municipal Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Arezzo is hosting the exhibition Afro. From Meditation on Piero della Francesca to the Informal, curated by Marco Pierini, with scientific coordination by Alessa...Read more...
Bolzano, Italy's first exhibition of Japanese artist Shimabuku at Museion
From May 6 to September 3, 2023 Museion in Bolzano presents the largest anthological exhibition of Japanese artist Shimabuku (Kobe, 1969) ever organized in Europe, and his first solo show in Italy. Shimabuku's cross-media art offers a light, curious...Read more...
May 10-16 auctions: contemporary art, wines and stamps
What are the best auctions from May 10 to 16? Let's find out together. Wannenes opens its Antique and 19th-century Paintings auctions, May 12-25, and Coins and Medals, May 13-26. At Cambi 's are Design Properties auctions, opening May 16, and Wine ...Read more...
Cultural heritage photo fees, associations appeal to minister
Calls are mounting for Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano to revise Ministerial Decree 161 of April 11, by which the guidelines for determining the minimum amounts of fees and charges for the concession of use of assets in consignment to state cult...Read more...
In Bergamo, Rachel Whiteread's unpublished installation for the Palazzo della Ragione
GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo returns for the sixth consecutive year inside Palazzo della Ragione with a new exhibition. In the year of Bergamo Brescia Capitale Italiana della Cultura, Rachel Whiteread (London, 1963), an...Read more...
The second installment of Book Club, set entirely in Italy, arrives in theaters
Four glories of American cinema together for a film set entirely in Italy. It is Book Club - The Next Chapter, starring an extraordinary quartet of Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen. It is a sequel to 2017's Book Club - An...Read more...
A major exhibition in Leuven on Dieric Bouts, master of the Flemish Renaissance
From October 20, 2023 to January 14, 2024, the M Leuven Museum in Leuven, Belgium, is hosting a major exhibition dedicated to one of the greatest Flemish Renaissance artists, Dieric Bouts (Haarlem, c. 1410 - Leuven, 1475). The exhibition, entitled D...Read more...
Memorial to the victims of the Strategy of Tension unveiled in Milan
The memorial to the victims of the Strategy of Tension, the massacres carried out between 1969 (Piazza Fontana) and 1980 (Bologna Station), desired and proposed by the city committee, Comitato non Dimenticarmi, with the support of the Associations of...Read more...
At the Diocesan Museum in Milan, 130 shots trace the career of Robert Doisneau
Opens May 9, 2023, and will remain open to the public until Oct. 15, 2023, at the Museo Diocesano "Carlo Maria Martini" in Milan, the exhibition dedicated to Robert Doisneau, considered, together with Henri Cartier-Bresson, among the fathers of Frenc...Read more...
Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum exhibits one of Keith Haring's greatest museum pieces after 30 years
At the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, in the IMC room, Keith Haring's Amsterdam Notes will be on display after more than 30 years. On view from May 26 to Nov. 5, 2023, it is a 38-meter-long drawing that the celebrated American artist created especial...Read more...
Bologna Academy of Fine Arts launches its first radio program
Starting May 12, 2023, theAcademy of Fine Arts of Bologna launches its first radio program 50 minutes of riparAzioni, broadcast on the frequencies of Radio Città Fujiko as part of the project riparAzioni - reworking to art, conceived by the Ac...Read more...
Ferrara, new Renaissance garden at Palazzo Schifanoia opens
The new garden at Palazzo Schifanoia opens in Ferrara , a Renaissance-style garden that can now finally be walked through by the public. The site consists of pergolas, hedges, climbing roses, espalier-bred ancient fruit trees, and walks among natural...Read more...
Bologna, important nucleus of oriental art donated to Civic Museums
Important donation for the Civic Museums of Bologna 's collections of Ancient Art acquires a valuable new collector's nucleus of 146 objects and works of Oriental art that belonged to collector Norman Jones (1903 - 1985) and donated by his daughter R...Read more...
Johannesburg Art Gallery masterpieces, from Monet to Warhol, on display in Bergamo province
The Gianni Bellini Art Gallery in Sarnico (Bergamo) hosts from May 19 to September 3, 2023 the exhibition From Monet to Warhol. Masterpieces from the Johannesburg Art Gallery, curated by Simona Bartolena and Massimo Rossi. Produced and organized by V...Read more...
What is the future of museums? Directors of ten of the world's leading museums address the issue
Kicking off is the What is a Museum? series of meetings conceived by Christian Greco to reflect on the future of museums and to rethink their role in the age of globalization and digitization. Ten directors of the world's most prestigious museum inst...Read more...
Naples, head of an 18th-century statue from the church of San Giorgio dei Genovesi disappears
Gone is the head of one of the two 18th-century statues decorating the facade of the church of San Giorgio dei Genovesi in Naples. Breaking the news, amid general disinterest, is only the Neapolitan edition of La Repubblica, which published a photo o...Read more...
Van Gogh exhibition in Rome closes with incredible numbers: nearly 600,000 visitors
The exhibition on Van Gogh in Rome(here is our review), held in the rooms of Palazzo Bonaparte from October 8, 2022 to May 7, 2023, curated by Maria Teresa Benedetti and Francesca Villanti and organized by Arthemisia in collaboration with the Krö...Read more...
Paris, damages Miriam Cahn's work because he disagrees with the content
He damaged a work by Miriam Cahn exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris by disagreeing with its content: it happened yesterday around 3:30 p.m., when a visitor, described as "elderly" by Agence France-Presse, which reported the news, spray-painted...Read more...
Coming to theaters docufilm on Borromini, the genius who breathed new life into architecture
On May 15, 16 and 17, 2023, the docufilm Borromini and Bernini arrives in Italian cinemas. Challenge to Perfection, directed by Giovanni Troilo, former director of Frida. Viva la vida, Monet's Water Lilies. A Spell of Water and Light and Power of Rom...Read more...
At the Polo del '900, the immersive sound installation that collects the dreams of the world
On May 9 at 6 p.m., the first stage of Dreamscape, an immersive sound installation by Eva Frapiccini, a multimedia artist and researcher working on the relationships between memory, power and sociopolitical change, opens at the Polo del '900 in Turin...Read more...
Positive balance for Siena Children's Art Museum: record number of visitors in 2023
Record attendance at the Children's Art Museum of Siena: in the first four months of 2023, the museum recorded an increase in visitors even compared to the same period in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, from January to April 2023, the nu...Read more...
Iconoclastic, the designer ceramic that reworks cult objects and mythological figures
It is called Iconoclastic and it is a project that reworks a classic of Italian artisan culture such as porcelain and reinvents it according to forms and icons belonging to the contemporary world. Authors of the project are the two creative founders ...Read more...
Pienza, an exhibition on Dario Neri, the painter of the Sienese countryside.
From May 6 to November 5, 2023, the San Carlo Borromeo Conservatory in Pienza will host an exhibition dedicated to Dario Neri (Murlo, 1895 - Milan, 1958): entitled Dario Neri - Mario Luzi. The Landscape State of Mind and curated by Leonardo Scelfo, t...Read more...
Donated to the City of Venice 216 drawings by important artists between the 16th and 20th centuries
An important new donation will enrich the heritage of the Venice Civic Museums Foundation. It consists of 216 drawings by some of the most important authors on the Italian and international scene, dating from the 1500s to the second half of the last ...Read more...
Art on TV May 8-14: Beuys, Botticelli and Matisse
In this now late spring, let's find out the TV programs dedicated to art from May 8 to 14. On Rai 3 the airing of Discovering the Golden Bough continues from Monday to Friday at 3:25 pm. On Rai 5 on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 7:3...Read more...
CR Florence Foundation collection reopens with free guided tours How was Florence?
Starting May 13, Fondazione CR Firenze's art collection reopens to the public, with free guided tours of the In Collezione program, so that visitors can admire works by Giotto, Filippino Lippi, Vasari, Giovanni Fattori, Primo Conti and many other fam...Read more...
At the Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi a fun dog walkway for Erwitt exhibition
As part of the exhibition Elliott Erwitt. Family, set up until June 11, 2023 in the ancient kitchens of the Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, organized by Next Exhibition in collaboration with SUDEST57, two special initiatives are planned: the My Fam...Read more...
David Lamelas' retrospective reflecting on space and time at Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation
From May 7, 2023 to Feb. 24, 2024, the Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation presents I Have to Think About It, the first retrospective in an Italian institution of Argentine artist David Lamelas, the author of one of the most fascinating conceptual-based ...Read more...
Jobs in culture, open positions and competitions of the week
Our column dedicated to cultural job seekers is back. Vacancies, open positions, calls for applications that we have gathered from May 1-7, 2023. In Turin, the National Cinema Museum has published a notice for a Junior Social Media Manager. Deadline...Read more...
Art gets populated by cats: Vienna uses artificial intelligence to bring the public closer to its museums
For its new campaign, theVienna Tourist Board has usedartificial intelligence to ironically transform some of the most iconic works of art found housed in the Austrian capital's museums, precisely with the aim of bringing the public to see what the w...Read more...
Raphael's Madonna of the Canopy returns to Pescia, to the church where it was for 150 years
The Madonna of the Baldacchino, a great work by Raphael Sanzio (Urbino, 1483 - Rome, 1520) that can be counted among the fundamental works of the mature Renaissance, temporarily leaves the Palatine Gallery of Palazzo Pitti in Florence and returns, fr...Read more...
The works of three street artists in a widespread exhibition in Lucca bring urban art to the city
From May to October, Lucca will host Labirinto, an exhibition spread along a route that winds through the streets and squares of the center and in two indoor exhibition venues, curated by Gian Guido Grassi, promoted by Fondazione Banca del Monte di L...Read more...
At Villa Manin, Capucci's sumptuous gowns dialogue with illusionistic perspectives
From May 6 to September 17, 2023, Villa Manin in Codroipo (Udine) hosts the exhibition Roberto Capucci. Perspectives at Villa Manin, curated by the Capucci Foundation. The Foundation preserves the clothes and manages the creative legacy of Roberto C...Read more...
A masterpiece by Francesco Hayez on display in Pontremoli. It is on loan from the Uffizi
A 19th-century masterpiece on loan from the Uffizi to Pontremoli for the Uffizi Diffusi project. It is the large portrait depicting Count Arese Lucini in prison, painted by the famous Romantic painter Francesco Hayez (Venice 1791 - Milan 1882) and pu...Read more...
Monreale Cathedral, mosaic restoration begins
Start of the restoration of the mosaics of Monreale Cathedral, necessary to eliminate damage caused by water infiltration. The Sicilian Region yesterday morning handed over restoration work on the decorated surfaces of the church of Santa Maria la Nu...Read more...
The altarpiece that Titian painted for his Pieve di Cadore will be restored.
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Titian and Cadore Study Center Foundation, the study center on Titian Vecellio based in the great Venetian artist's hometown of Pieve di Cadore, the restoration of the altarpiece made by Titian for the A...Read more...
Our brains love artwork captions: the University of Florence study
According to a study by theUniversity of Florence, our brains love captions of works of art. In other words, viewing works of art is more rewarding with the support of a descriptive caption. The confirmation comes from research by the team coordinate...Read more...
Taranto, children exceptional guides at the National Museum: they will illustrate ancient toys
Little Guides at the National Archaeological Museum of Taranto, where for two days children will be guiding the public: it will happen on Monday, May 8 from 10 a.m. to noon and Thursday, June 1 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Those who will visit the exhibition ...Read more...
Yayoi Kusama exhibition in Bergamo: online ticket presale kicks off from Friday, May 5
Palazzo della Ragione in Bergamo will host from Nov. 17, 2023 to Jan. 14, 2023, on the occasion of Bergamo Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023, the long-awaited exhibition of Yayoi Kusama 's (Matsumoto, Japan, 1929) Fireflies on the Water, one of...Read more...
Milan, at the Braidense the exhibition that tells all about Alessandro Manzoni
Manzoni, 1873-2023. The Horrible Plague Scourge Between Living and Writing is the title of the exhibition that the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense and Pinacoteca di Brera are presenting on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Alessandro Manzoni's ...Read more...
Bio restoration using sustainable techniques for Jacopo Sansovino's Madonna of Childbirth
The conservative restoration of the so-called Madonna del parto, a marble monument created by Jacopo Sansovino and housed in the Basilica of Sant'Agostino in Campo Marzio, was presented today in Rome. It was an intervention under the banner of sustai...Read more...
Ancient scribes used rows and columns on papyri: grids emerged on Herculaneum papyri
Ancient scribes also used different types of grids to demarcate the writing mirror on papyri. The first scientific confirmation of this custom, which classical authors had passed down to us, comes from research conducted by the University of Pisa, CN...Read more...
Siena, at Santa Maria della Scala an exhibition on the fantastic travels of Aldo Mondino
From April 8 to July 9, 2023, Siena dedicates an exhibition to the fantastic travels of Aldo Mondino (Turin, 1938 - 2005). In fact, the museum complex of Santa Maria della Scala is hosting the exhibition Aldo Mondino. START. An unceasing beginning, c...Read more...
Basquiat's Modena paintings reunited for the first time at Fondation Beyeler
Not everyone knows that the first European exhibition of Jean Michel-Basquiat (New York, 1960 - 1988) was held in Italy and to be precise in Modena, at Galleria Mazzoli, a sign that our country has always been, even in recent times, at the center of ...Read more...
Two years after Luciano Ventrone's passing, his painting truer than life comes to Venice
From May 13 to July 16, 2023 Palazzo Pisani Revedin (Campo Manin) hosts the exhibition Ventrone. Nature is Dead Painting is Alive, curated by Luca Beatrice, promoted by Venice International University and the Fondazione Ventrone Gibilisco, with the o...Read more...
Valentin de Boulogne's Allegory of Italy now enriches exhibition on Urban VIII
Starting today, Valentin de Boulogne's painting, Allegory of Italy, is added to the exhibition L'Immagine Sovrana. Urban VIII and the Barberini family, the exhibition mounted at Palazzo Barberini curated by Maurizia Cicconi, Flaminia Gennari Santori ...Read more...
Faenza's MIC updates and renews classical ceramics section
The MIC in Faenza will inaugurate the new display of classical ceramics on Saturday, May 6, at 5 p.m. After more than two decades, the exhibition will be significantly revised, as much in its educational content and selection of artifacts as in its g...Read more...
On Rai5 the documentary on Luigi Ghirri narrated by Stefano Accorsi
Tonight, Wednesday, May 3, 2023, at 9:15 p.m. Art Night on Rai 5 broadcasts the documentary Infinito. The Universe of Luigi Ghirri written and directed by Matteo Parisini, with the voice of Stefano Accorsi, produced by Lorenzo Cioffi for Ladoc with t...Read more...
Egypt, Roman-era Buddha statue discovered on Red Sea coast
Major archaeological discovery in Egypt where the joint Polish-American archaeological mission working in the Red Sea coast city of Berenice has managed to unearth a Buddha statue dating back to Roman times during excavation work in the city's ancien...Read more...
May 3 to 9 auctions: contemporary art, design and wines
Had a good May 1? Then here are the best auctions from May 3 to May 9. If you are looking for new sofas and tables, Pandolfini will open Spotlight Design on May 9. On May 5, Wannenes opens the Wine & Spirits auction in two sessions: the first w...Read more...
Austria and Greece, talks to return two Parthenon fragments
Austria and Greece are discussing the possible return to Athens of two Greek sculptures that are now the property of Vienna: the news, which could put pressure on the British Museum , which has been urged by Greece for years to return the Parthenon m...Read more...
In the Bay of Naples discovered the location of the ancient temple of the Nabataeans
The waters of the Bay of Naples continue to be a source of relevant discoveries. A few days ago we gave news of the discovery of a mosaic with surprising lines and colors in terms of shine and preservation, in the Underwater Archaeological Park o...Read more...
Reggia Express, the historic train to the Royal Palace of Caserta, is back
From Saturday, May 6, the Reggia Express returns to travel on a historic train to the Royal Palace of Caserta and enjoy a visit to the Vanvitellian Complex with a special price ticket. The initiative is promoted by ACaMIR in collaboration with the FS...Read more...
At the Museo di Roma in Trastevere the first exhibition in Italy by photographer Peggy Kleiber
From May 19 to October 15, 2023, the Museo di Roma in Trastevere is hosting the first exhibition in Italy by photographer Peggy Kleiber. The exhibition entitled PEGGY KLEIBER. All the Days of Life (Photographs 1959-1992) is curated by Arianna Catania...Read more...
Limited-edition works by Yayoi Kusama on display in Milan for one evening
The works of contemporary Japanese artist Yayoi K usama (Matsumoto, 1929) will be on display for one evening in Milan: in fact, Yayoi Kusama will be the protagonist of an Art Night scheduled for Thursday, May 4, at 6:30 p.m. at Galleria Deodato Arte....Read more...
Greece, since last week pets can enter archaeological sites
In Greece since last week it has been possible to bring pets to archaeological sites. This is an important innovation for the country, where until now only guide dogs for the visually impaired were allowed. The pet-friendly decision was made last Apr...Read more...
David LaChapelle stars at the Salone degli Incanti in Trieste with 92 works
From April 22 to August 15, 2023, the Salone degli Incanti in Trieste will host the exhibition David LaChapelle-Fulmini, curated by the David LaChapelle Studio, under the artistic direction of Gianni Mercurio, promoted by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Re...Read more...
I was there yesterday: Gino D'Ugo's work that addresses passersby triggering doubt
A new stage for the Aurelia→SUD project, curated by artist Gabriele Landi in his studio at Via Aurelia Sud 19 in Arcola (La Spezia), where Gino D'Ugo 's (Marino, 1968) intervention entitled C'ero anche ieri (I was also yesterday) is on view from...Read more...
Ascona hosts first Swiss retrospective dedicated to Nanda Vigo
The Municipal Museum of Modern Art in Ascona, Switzerland, is hosting the first retrospective in Switzerland of Nanda Vigo (1936-2020). On view until June 25, 2023, the exhibition titled Alfabeto Cosmogonico is curated by Alberto Fiz and realized in ...Read more...
Sangiuliano's decree on photo reproduction fees to cultural heritage (causing discussion)
While the art world last week has been busy huddling over the campaign dedicated to Venus, few have instead taken a look at the April 11 ministerial decree, number 161, with which Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano launched the guidelines for determining t...Read more...
An exhibition in Desenzano del Garda celebrates Roy Lichtenstein on the centenary of his birth
On the occasion of the centenary of his birth, Desenzano del Garda pays homage to Roy Lichtenstein, among the most important American artists of international Pop Art. In fact, the Castle is hosting from April 29 to July 16, 2023 the exhibition Roy L...Read more...
Havoc on the work of Giuseppe Terragni. The denunciation of the Archives of the great architect
"Unfortunately yet another bad intervention on the Ortelli Tomb in Cernobbio...without any criteria and no historicization...where will the original cross and marbles have gone? Where was the Superintendence? Who authorized the havoc?" With these wor...Read more...
The fashion of photographing oneself nude in Venice
If in Pisa the ritual photograph is the one in which one poses in perspective pretending to hold up the tower, in Venice there is another fashion, less widespread but still alive and present: that of being portrayed near some striking view (a bridge,...Read more...
On Sunday, May 7, all of Rome's civic museums will be free of charge
On May 7, for the first Sunday of the month, Rome 's civic museums will also applyfree entry like the state museums: free entry therefore for everyone in the city's civic museums and some of the city's archaeological areas such as the Circus Maximus ...Read more...
At the Villa Reale in Monza, the great exhibition on the world of Lego
From April 29 to September 16, 2023, the Villa Reale in Monza will host a new stage of I love Lego, an exhibition designed for everyone (children, adults and in general fans of the iconic bricks) to dream and experience moments of play and fun. Among...Read more...
Brescia, what to see: 10 places with art
If you do not know Brescia, you will be amazed: it is not only factories and crafts in the heart of Lombardy, the economic locomotive of Europe. It is also so much to discover in terms of history, art, architecture. It has been chosen together with B...Read more...
Seoul, a student eats Cattelan's banana at the exhibition, and sticks the peel to the wall
A student ate Cattelan's banana: It happened in Seoul, at the Leem Museum of Art, where a student from Seoul National University who was visiting the exhibition Maurizio Cattelan. We, the largest monographic exhibition of the Paduan artist since the ...Read more...
In Palermo exhibition of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, one of the fathers of contemporary African art
Held from April 28 to May 28, at the Riso. Regional Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Palermo, the exhibition Frédéric Bruly Bouabré | Cosmogonie, the first review in Sicily dedicated to one of the founding fathers of cont...Read more...
A new site-specific work at Runway 500: an XXL collage of social claim struggles
The Pista 500, Pinacoteca Agnelli 's art project on the iconic FIAT car test track on the roof of the Lingotto, curated by Sarah Cosulich and Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, welcomes from Thursday, May 4, 2023 a new large site-specific work commiss...Read more...
At MAXXI, Dieter Nuhr's artistic and dreamlike journey dedicated to landscape beauty
MAXXI in Rome presents from May 3 to 28, 2023, the exhibition Surrounded by Far by German artist Dieter Nuhr. Dedicated to the scenic beauty of our planet, the exhibition is a tale of a journey that invites and inspires dreaming, through photography,...Read more...
Art on TV May 1-7: Luigi Ghirri, Banksy, Andy Warhol
How will you celebrate Labor Day? We suggest you take a look at TV programs dedicated to art in early May. On Rai 3 the appointment with In Search of the Golden Bough is from Tuesday to Friday at 3:25 pm. On Rai 5 from Monday to Friday starting at ...Read more...
The Bailo Museum dedicates an exhibition to the masterpieces of Arturo Martini
From March 31 to July 30, 2023, the Luigi Bailo Museum in Treviso is hosting the exhibition Arturo Martini. Masterpieces, curated by Fabrizio Malachin and Nico Stringa. In Arturo Martini's own words, works that "weigh tons and seem as light as a feat...Read more...
Kicking off guided tours and lectures to discover Rome's historic villas and parks
A series of lectures and guided tours in Rome's historic villas and parks promoted by Roma Capitale, Assessorato alla Cultura, Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali, entitled Le ville raccontano (The villas tell) will start on May 3. A series o...Read more...
The curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 2024 Biennale will be chosen by public selection
The next curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale will be chosen by public selection. This was decided by the Ministry of Culture: the public notice for the selection of the trio of candidates from which the Minister of Culture wil...Read more...
Received in Florence former principal fired after showing Michelangelo's David
Hope Carrasquilla, the former teacher and principal of Florida's Tallahassee Classical School who was fired for showing Michelangelo's David during an art history lesson because it was considered pornographic by some parents, visited the Accademia Ga...Read more...
Perugino in Umbria, what to see: 10 places that preserve his works
There are many towns inUmbria marked by the presence of Perugino (Pietro Vannucci; Città della Pieve, 1445 - Fontignano, 1523). No region more than Umbria bears the traces of the great artist: known as a pupil of Verrocchio and especially as a...Read more...
I love Lego, the exhibition on the most famous colorful bricks arrives at the Villa Reale in Monza
From April 29 to September 16, 2023, the Villa Reale in Monza will host I LOVE LEGO, an exhibition designed for all fans of the iconic bricks. Among spectacular and colorful dioramas, artistic creations and fantastic perspectives, in the Belvedere of...Read more...
Pompeii, reconstructed rare parade chariot discovered in 2019. It can be seen in Rome
The parade chariot found in 2019 at Civita Giuliana, a locality north of Pompeii, in a suburban villa already partly identified and investigated in the early 20th century and returned to attention due to clandestine excavations conducted by grave rob...Read more...
New edugame about Pompeii coming soon. You win by escaping the 79 AD eruption.
A new edugame reconstructs, in a scientific and historical manner, the destruction of Pompeii following theeruption of Mount Vesuvius. Goal: escape the volcano's eruption in 79 A.D. to safety, leaving the city near total destruction. Vesuvius 79 AD.-...Read more...
Romagna, unpublished sculpture by Alfonso Lombardi discovered
Important discovery in Romagna: in Bagnara di Romagna (Ravenna), an antiquarian has in fact found an unpublished sculpture by Alfonso Lombardi (Ferrara, c. 1497-Bologna, 1537), the leading 16th-century sculptor in Ferrara, also known as "Alfonso Citt...Read more...
Castelletto, the oldest building in Miramare Park, opens after restoration
After careful restoration conducted with full respect for history, building styles and original features, the Castelletto in Miramare Park opens to the public. A miniature castle with its own special character, at once simple and precious, it is theo...Read more...
Lucca, Francesca Banchelli's Afternoon installation at the Scompiglio
A large installation that takes its cue from French philosopher Alain Badiou 's theory of the event to take the public to a desert without place or time, where singular encounters take place and something new and unexpected happens every time: this i...Read more...
Naples, 10 unusual places off the beaten path of mass tourism
When you say Naples, you say Italy, with all its cultural and hospitality background. Among the stereotypes of the Italian abroad is not for nothing the famous "spaghetti-pizza-mandolino," or three elements that characterize Naples. Therefore, it can...Read more...
The 18th edition of European Photography kicks off today. European identity is the protagonist
The 18th edition of Fotografia Europea, an international cultural festival dedicated to contemporary photography produced and promoted by the Palazzo Magnani Foundation and the Municipality of Reggio Emilia with the contribution of the Emilia-Romagna...Read more...
Florence, at Palazzo Pitti the first-ever exhibition on Guido Ferroni
From April 20 to July 16, 2023, the Sala del Fiorino at the Pitti Palace in Florence will host the first-ever exhibition on Guido Ferroni (Siena, 1888 - Florence, 1979), an exponent and founder of the Tuscan Novecento group. The exhibition, entitled ...Read more...
Florence, restorations at San Miniato al Monte end after one year
Restoration work in the church of San Miniato al Monte in Florence has been completed, made possible by a donation from Friends of Florence, the American foundation that has been supporting the conservation of the Florentine and Tuscan heritage since...Read more...
First Germano Celant Research Center opens at Magazzino Italian Art with a focus on Arte Povera
Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring will open the Germano Celant Research Center within the museum. The opening will take place on April 29, marking the third anniversary of Celant's death in 2020. The Germano Celant Research Center, the first in th...Read more...
A retrospective exhibition dedicated to Letizia Battaglia at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa.
The Sottoporticato of the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa will host the retrospective Letizia Battaglia from April 29 to November 1, 2023. It's Me, dedicated to Letizia Battaglia, among the most famous photographers of the 20th century and among the first It...Read more...
Donated Gaetano Previati's masterpiece, The Muses, to the Ferrara Galleries of Modern and Contemporary Art
The Giuseppe Pianori Foundation has donated to the city of Ferrara Le Muse by Gaetano Previati, a masterpiece that will now enrich the collection of the Gallerie d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea. The institution, by the will of its founder, has as its ...Read more...
Mantua's Ducal Palace, an exhibition-dossier celebrates Grechetto and his large canvas acquired for the museum
The Ducal Palace in Mantua presents from April 22 to July 23, 2023 the exhibition-dossier A Painter of Great Mastery. Grechetto Returns to Mantua, dedicated to the major new acquisition from the General Directorate of Museums (Ministry of Culture) fo...Read more...
Bergamo, important donation for Carrara Academy: self-portrait by Simone Peterzano
TheCarrara Academy in Bergamo is enriched with an important work, theSelf-portrait by Simone Peterzano (Venice, c. 1535 - Milan, 1599), a pupil of Titian and master of Caravaggio. The painting comes to the Bergamasque museum thanks to the donation of...Read more...
Possible Artemisia Gentileschi painting pops up at Bertolami auction
Bertolami Fine Art 's spring auction of Old Masters to be held today at 3 p.m. continues to hold surprises. In addition to the news of the presence in the catalog of an unpublished masterpiece by Romanino is the news of a resounding attribution to Ar...Read more...
In Gorizia, an exhibition recounts the myth of Italian style through fashion and design
Through August 27, 2023 Palazzo Attems Petzenstein in Gorizia presents the exhibition Italia Cinquanta. Fashion and Design. Birth of a Style, curated by Carla Cerutti, Enrico Minio Capucci and Raffaella Sgubin, conceived and promoted by ERPAC FVG (En...Read more...
1.5 million to support contemporary photography. Public notice online
The Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture has launched thepublic notice"Photography Strategy 2023" for the selection of proposals for the acquisition, production, conservation, and enhancement of photography and t...Read more...
M9 - Museo del '900 in Mestre opens to the contemporary with an exhibition dedicated to Emilio Vedova
From May 5 to November 26, 2023, M9 - Museo del '900 in Mestre will host the exhibition Rivoluzione Vedova, conceived and designed by Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, promoted and organized by Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova and M9 - Muse...Read more...
A monumental Spider by Louise Bourgeois will go to auction at Sotheby's. Estimated at $30-40 million
On May 18, one of French sculptor Louise Bourgeois' most famous works will go up for auction in New York at Sotheby 's: the monumental Spider from 1996. Estimated at between $30 million and $40 million, it is one of forty-two known monumental spiders...Read more...
At Mart in Rovereto focus on Chiara Dynys and her works investigating light
The Mart - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto hosts, from April 22 to August 27, 2023, an exhibition focus on Chiara Dyn ys (Mantua, 1958), entitled Chiara Dynys. The Shadow of Light, curated by Daniela Ferrari. Light and it...Read more...
Auctions from April 26 to May 2: ancient art, contemporary art, and vintage toys
April is coming to an end. Let's look together at the best auctions from April 26 to May 2. Wannenes has an auction scheduled for those who want to redecorate their homes: titled Forms, the auction will take place on April 28. Two auctions at Cambi...Read more...
Recycled briquettes made into art: the BiHoliday tourism group exhibits the works of Enrico Marcato
Artistic briccole: these are the ones Venetian artist Enrico Marcato made for the BiHoliday tourism group, which exhibited them in Munich in presenting the 2023 summer season. The briccole will be exhibited as part of the I say Art project in the two...Read more...
Sangiuliano's dickering to directors: too many on vacation for the bridge. And he schedules meeting at mid-August
Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano did not like the fact that many Ministry directors took a day off the day before yesterday, Monday, April 24, in view of the April 25 holiday. And so he wrote a letter of rebuke delivered to everyone (and anticipa...Read more...
Bologna, from Ireland comes portrait of Alessandro Farnese attributed to Sofonisba Anguissola
Starting April 27, the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna welcomes an illustrious guest: it is the Portrait of Alessandro Farnese attributed to Sofonisba Anguissola (Cremona, 1532 - Palermo, 1625), on loan from the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin....Read more...
Gian Maria Tosatti arrives in Foligno with environmental intervention, a walk in the fog
Another exhibition for Gian Maria Tosatti (Rome, 1980), at the same time as the one at Hangar Bicocca in Milan. In fact, the Roman artist is now in Foligno at the Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea (CIAC) where, from April 22 to July 2, 2023, the sol...Read more...
Uffizi Diffusi, the predella of Filippo Lippi's Barbadori Altarpiece arrives in Montespertoli
The Uffizi Diffusi returns to Montespertoli in Valdelsa for the third consecutive year, following the exhibition on Giotto's followers in Valdelsa and the one on the predella of the Stories of St. Peter the Martyr. This time the project comes to the ...Read more...
Florence, outdoor chairs and tables only outside Unesco area for summer 2023
The Municipality of Florence has decided to grant for the summer of 2023 the possibility of putting chairs and tables outside the premises but only outside the historic center, in the streets and squares not included in the Unesco area. The Extraord...Read more...
Russian attack in Kupyansk, Ukraine, destroyed local museum and one of its employees dies
War in Ukraine: this morning a Russian attack hit the center of the city of Kupyansk in Kharkiv oblast (eastern part of the country) with S-300 missiles. During the action, the Kupyansk Museum of Local History (Куп'ÑнÑький краєзнавÑ...Read more...
Sudan, important Christian frescoes discovered, unprecedented for Nubian painting
Despite the precarious situation in Sudan, a team of Polish archaeologists from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology at Warsaw University, led by Professor Kazimierz Michałowski, made a major discovery at the site of Dongola (Tungul in anc...Read more...
Dalíland, the biopic about Salvador Dalí, arrives in theaters.
Coming to theaters on May 25, distributed by Plaion Pictures, Dalíland, a biopic centered on Salvador Dalí and starring Oscar winner Ben Kingsley(Gandhi, Shutter Island, Hugo Cabret) Directed by Mary Harron, the same director as the cu...Read more...
1 euro houses in Italy: here's where to buy them
From Graffignano to Borgomezzavalle, from Fabbriche di Vergemoli to Monte Urano, from Altavilla Silentina to Zugoli, from Ollolai to Valguarnera Caropepe. No, this is not the list from the show on "The Most Beautiful Villages in Italy" (although it c...Read more...
Venice, at the Guggenheim Collection exhibition on Edmondo Bacci and the power of his color
From April 1 to September 18, 2023, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Edmondo Bacci. The Energy of Light, curated by Chiara Bertola, head of the contemporary art program at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice. Featuring some 80 works, man...Read more...
In France they did a survey of the exhibition industry. Here's what came out
An interesting study on the cultural exhibition sector has recently been published in France : theOPIIEC - Observatoire des métiers du numérique, de l'ingénierie, du conseil et de l'évènement (Observatory of digital...Read more...
Livorno, at Extra Factory gallery the double solo show of young Pannocchia and Lenzi
From May 4 to May 20, Extra Factory gallery in Livorno is hosting Arterie exhibition, a double solo show by young artists Stefano Lenzi and Matteo Pannocchia. Curated by Jacopo Suggi, the exhibition also includes a rich calendar of events, including ...Read more...
The Victoria & Albert Museum's entire Photography Centre will open in May.
On May 25, 2023, phase two (and final) of the Photography Centre at the Victoria & Albert Museum will open in which the museum's photographic collection, among the largest and most important in the world, will be celebrated. A permanent collectio...Read more...
New works focused on the study of classical and contemporary dance exhibited at Biffi Art Gallery
Through May 21, 2023, Biffi Arte Gallery in Piacenza is exhibiting Alessandro Vasapolli's new photographic project entitled Dance Notes. After his successful debut in the Piacenza area with the DéVoilée series in 2018, the artist-photog...Read more...
Turin, a major exhibition on the Byzantines at Palazzo Madama with a section dedicated to the Piedmont area
From May 10 to August 28, 2023, Palazzo Madama - Museo Civico d'Arte Antica in Turin hosts the exhibition Byzantines. Places, Symbols and Communities of a Thousand-Year Empire, curated by Federico Marazzi with the contribution of MANN - National Arch...Read more...
An artist in symbiosis with plants: Tiziana Cera Rosco at the Botanical Garden of Palermo
Opening April 18 is the anthological exhibition of poet and artist Tiziana Cera Rosco (Milan, 1973) entitled Anthurium - Speak My Flower, curated by Maria Chiara Di Trapani, born from an artistic residency experience lived by the artist in theBotanic...Read more...
Venice, 10 unusual places off the beaten path of mass tourism
Whether you are bewitched by it like Woody Allen or have never been there, for everyone Venice represents one of the wonders of the world to be known and discovered again and again. The most apt adjective is "unique"-there is nothing else to add to t...Read more...
Venice, 3 artists fill an old church with dreamlike installations on climate change
From April 22 to Nov. 5, 2023, Venice 's Ocean Space, inside the deconsecrated church of San Lorenzo, is hosting Thus waves come in pairs, an exhibition that includes two new commissions debuting at Ocean Space in Venice for the 2023 exhibition progr...Read more...
Milan, Franco Mazzucchelli's large inflatable sculptures in Darsena and Triennale
Until Wednesday, April 26, it will be possible to admire the large inflatable PVC sculptures by Franco Mazzucchelli (Milan, Italy, 1939) in some of the most significant places in Milan. In fact, the artist has returned to his city on the occasion of ...Read more...
Home Bitter Home, the artist's project that mocks the cheesy good vibes from social
An art project that takes its cue from the world of motivational quotes to turn their meaning upside down and transform them into de-motivational mottos. This is the goal of Home Bitter Home, the series by young Alessandro Monestiroli, a fledgling ar...Read more...
Appeal of Italia Nostra: protect Trajan's Column and Column of Marcus Aurelius with vitrines
Cover the Trajan Column and the Column of Marcus Aurelius with shrines to preserve them from deterioration. This is the appeal to the institutions in charge of protection that comes from Italia Nostra after experts spoke out on the issue. The topic t...Read more...
Is it right to charge more for museums? Debate on Radio24
Is it fair to charge the public more to enter museums? Yesterday on Radio24, as part of the program Poche storie hosted by Simone Spetia, there was a debate on this issue. In fact, on this spring bridge weekend many people will travel to art cities a...Read more...
Art on TV April 24-30: Van Gogh, Raphael and Munch
Today, in our column dedicated to TV programs, we will find out the schedule from April 24 to 30. On Rai 3 continues the airing of Discovering the Golden Bough from Monday to Friday at 3:25 pm. On Rai 5 from Monday to Friday at 7:30 p.m. reruns of ...Read more...
Fabrizio Plessi marries Brixia: an unprecedented immersive path designed for the Capital of Culture 2023
Fabrizio Plessi comes to Brescia and presents from June 9, 2023 to January 7, 2024 the unprecedented project Plessi marries Brixia, celebrating a marriage with the city and its inhabitants, delivering to the public a message of responsibility and awa...Read more...
Villa d'Este, the garden of wonders reopens paying homage to Calvin's masterpieces
Delizie Estensi is Villa d'Este 's new project for its garden of wonders, linked to the multicolored hues of its botanical species and their seasonality. A project founded on the universal values of beauty, sustainability and care for nature. The ini...Read more...
April 25: state cultural places open for free. It is the first of three new free days
On the occasion of Liberation Day, state museums and archaeological parks will be open for free on Tuesday, April 25, as proposed by Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano. The #domenicalmuseo initiative, which provides for free admission to state cul...Read more...
In Vinci special projections featuring Leonardo's works on the Conti Guidi Castle
In Vinci, for the third consecutive year, projections are returning to the Conti Guidi Castle, home of the Leonardo Museum. The special lights are part of the Leonardo celebrations and have been had installed by the Municipality of Vinci, thanks in p...Read more...
ICOM expresses reservations about priorities for ministry outlined by Sangiuliano
Development and dissemination of culture? No: reduction of public spending and limitation of responsibility over cultural sites. These would seem to be, according to the Italian committee of ICOM (International Council of Museums, the main reference ...Read more...
Shaun the Sheep and Aardman Studios creations star in an exhibition at PAFF! in Pordenone, Italy
From May 12 to September 24, 2023, the spaces of PAFF! International Musem of Comic Art in Pordenone will host The Art of Aardman Exhibition, Shaun the Sheep & Friends curated by the museum together with Art Ludique-Le Musée in Paris and i...Read more...
Six previously unpublished works by Giulio Paolini on display at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome
TheNational Academy of San Luca presents from April 19 to July 15, 2023 the exhibition Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, conceived by Marco Tirelli and Antonella Soldaini and curated by her. The exhibition is realized under theHigh Patronage of the P...Read more...
Pistoia Musei exhibits Giorgio de Chirico's Mannequins by the Sea
From April 22, Pistoia Musei ' Collections of the Twentieth Century will host Mannequins by the Sea, among Giorgio de Chirico 's most famous works marking the link between his classical and metaphysical periods. The artist returns to the exhibition i...Read more...
Caravaggio arrives in Mesagne for an exhibition on the birth and development of Caravaggio's naturalism
From July 16 to Dec. 8, 2023, Mesagne 's Norman Swabian Castle will host the exhibition Caravaggio and His Time - Between Naturalism and Classicism, curated by Pierluigi Carofano in collaboration with Tamara Cini, making use of a scientific reference...Read more...
Moisai returns to Domus Aurea: performance art in the sign of the contemporary dedicated to the Muses
After the success of the first edition, Moisai - Contemporary Voices in Domus Aurea returns from May 5 to 21, 2023, an evocative opportunity to immerse oneself in the places of the imperial residence that best reflect one of the best-known aspects of...Read more...
In Milan, the first monographic exhibition in Europe by Argentine Leandro Erlich
The Palazzo Reale in Milan will host for the first time in Europe from April 22 to October 4, 2023 anextensive monographic exhibition of Leandro Erlich, among the leading figures of the international art scene. Promoted by the City of Milan-Cultura, ...Read more...
Rome, for two months at the Pantheon there will be two sculptures by Oliviero Rainaldi
The Pantheon opens to contemporary sculpture with the exhibition Calma tu alma by Oliviero Rainaldi, an artist famous for his sculpture of John Paul II in front of Termini Station in Rome. From April 20 to June 15, it is the great temple that will ho...Read more...
From the British Museum an ancient and precious Irish jewel on loan to the Camonica Valley Museum
From April 28 to September 30, 2023, the Camonica Valley National Museum of Prehistory presents the exhibition Under the Same Sun. Europe 2500-1800 B.C., curated by Marco Baioni, Claudia Mangani and Maria Giuseppina Ruggiero. The exhibition will rev...Read more...
Florence, from May 3 admission by reservation to Giotto's Bell Tower
As of May 3, 2023, to visit Giotto's Bell Tower in Florence ("Giotto pass" ticket holders) will be required to reserve an entrance time. TheOpera di Santa Maria del Fiore has decided to adopt this system, already used with excellent results for Brune...Read more...
Villa Grimani Valmarana a contemporary art collective on the inviolability of the body
From April 30 to May 21, 2023, Villa Grimani Valmarana, in Noventa Padovana (Padua), is hosting in its temporary exhibition spaces the contemporary art exhibition Noli me tangere. Of the inviolability of the body, curated by Barbara Codogno and organ...Read more...
Christmas in Rome: free civic museums and many initiatives to celebrate 2776 years of Rome
Rome officially turns 2776 years old today (making the date 753 B.C.): in fact, the Christmas of Rome is celebrated today, and for its birthday it offers special events, exhibitions, meetings, guided tours and shows. Several spaces in the city are in...Read more...
Ferrara, students protagonists of the excavation of the ancient Este delight. Phase two kicks off in September
In September, phase two of Che delizia, Belfiore! a project of participatory archaeology by schools and volunteers of the Ferrara Archaeological Group, supported with about 40,000 euros by the Ferrara Municipal Administration: a new excavation campai...Read more...
Appia Antica Archaeological Park, restoration of the rediscovered Hercules opens to the public
In the Villa dei Quintili of the Appia Antica Archaeological Park, the restoration ofHercules, the life-size statue that had been unearthed on January 25, 2023 in the area of Scott Park, between Cristoforo Colombo and the second mile of the Via Appia...Read more...
Tragic photo of Mariupol mom wins World Press Photo 2023
The photograph depicting the now-famous Mariupol mother after the bombing of Ukraine's martyred city, a shot taken by Ukrainian photographer Evgeniy Maloletka, is the winner of the 2023 edition of the World Press Photo Contest, the world's most prest...Read more...
Debate rages over photographer who wins contest with a photo of Artificial Intelligence
It looks like a picture of Grandma when she was young, maybe a little tense looking up to the right at someone who said something to her. And behind her mother taking her by the shoulders giving her a kiss on the back as if to say, "Be quiet, don't b...Read more...
Ukraine, an art gallery in Kyiv that had closed during the war reopens
In Ukraine , an art gallery that had closed at the outbreak of war has reopened its doors: the Voloshyn Gallery in Kyiv is organizing the group exhibition Camera Obscura from April 14 to May 21 to give a sign of normalcy. The exhibition is in fact an...Read more...
Venus influencer: Ministry of Tourism unveils campaign to promote Italy
In the end, the idea to promote tourism in Italy by Tourism Minister Daniela Santanchè, announced a few weeks ago, has found fruition: in fact, the Italia campaign was presented this morning. Open To Wonder, an international campaign to promot...Read more...
Important discovery in Segesta: slabs of the ancient street that cut through the city found
Sicily's three-thousand-year-old history continues to amaze: an "exceptional" discovery has been made in Segesta , to use the discoverers' own words, namely the flagstones of the ancient road that was used until the Middle Ages and that could thus al...Read more...
Lorenzo Viani's Sant'Andrea on the move from Viareggio to Lucca for dedicated exhibition
Moving some 20 kilometers for a significant work by Lorenzo Viani (Viareggio, 1882 - Lido di Ostia, 1936), the St. Andrew at the Viareggio Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art . GaMC's work is in fact going to Lucca, to the Church of San Francesche...Read more...
A new publishing reality in the art world: Politi Seganfreddo edizioni
There is news in the world ofart publishing: in fact, the publishing house Politi Seganfreddo edizioni was born, and on February 24 its first titles were released in bookstores. The publishing house, founded by Cristiano Seganfreddo and Gea Politi, p...Read more...
Cortona, a new display for the works of Luca Signorelli at the Museo Diocesano
The Diocese of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro is celebrating the five-hundredth anniversary of the death of Luca Signorelli (Cortona, c. 1445 - 1523) with a new layout of the room dedicated to the artist inside the Diocesan Museum of Cortona. Since last ...Read more...
Arcevia, State Archaeological Museum reopens. With a new layout
The State Archaeological Museum of Arcevia in the Marche reopens to the public and does so with a new look. The facility, located in the restored and modernized premises adjoining the Cloister of San Francesco, functions as a district museum, bringin...Read more...
Brescia, street artist Luca Font's color subway arrives. It is a traveling work
Brescia becomes Metro d'Autore and traveling artwork with CONNECTIONS, the new artistic incursion of street artist Luca Font who, for the 10th anniversary of the Brescia metro, transforms a part of the depot in Via Magnolini into 400 square meters of...Read more...
Rome, the issue of moving the Discobolus explained well
A lively controversy has held sway in recent days in Rome: that over the displacement of the Lancellotti Disk, or the most complete marble copy of the Disk of Myron, a bronze work made in the fifth century B.C, and lost at an unspecified time: the ma...Read more...
Controversy over Netflix series on Cleopatra: Egypt's queen is black
We don't know if it will make as big a mark as the historic colossal that has gone down in Hollywood history as one of the most expensive (and longest-running) films in the history of cinema with the legendary pair of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton in...Read more...
Labirinto della Masone hosts exhibition on Ugo Celada da Virgilio
Although isolated from the circuit of contemporary twentieth-century art, and for this reason not included in the critical debate of the time, Ugo Celada da Virgilio (Cerese, 1895 - Varese, 1995) was able to cross the last century by informing himsel...Read more...
Auctions April 19 to 25: contemporary art, porcelain and wines
Today, in our auction column, we will find out the best deals from April 19 to 25. Three auctions at Pandolfini: from April 20 to 27 there is Modern and Contemporary Art; on April 20 and 21 there is The Meaning of Passion - Fine and Collectible Wine...Read more...
Colosseum storerooms may be visited: part visitation program
Who wants to see the deposits of the Colosseum? The Colosseum Archaeological Park presents the new guided tour program Deposits on Display, which every Friday until July will allow the public to discover the precious heritage kept in the deposits on ...Read more...
At the Musée d'Orsay, a major exhibition compares Manet and Degas
An exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris that compares the work of Édouard Manet (Paris, 1832 - 1883) and Edgar Degas (Paris, 1834 - 1917) opened last March 28 and will run until July 23. The exhibition, titled simply Manet / Degas a...Read more...
Liguria museums seek 3 archaeologists, 2 architects and 1 procurement expert
The Regional Directorate of Museums of Liguria has announced a procedure for the awarding of collaborative positions for 3 archaeologists, 2 architects and 1 administrative expert with legal expertise in public tenders and contracts. The collaborativ...Read more...
Hidden works in symbolic places of contemporary art in Milan: Luca Rossi's new project
Hidden Works in the symbolic places ofcontemporary art in Milan. Luca Rossi, a name behind which lies one of the most pressing artistic personalities of the Italian scene in recent years, during the just passed week of Miart gave birth to a two-act p...Read more...
This is what the classrooms of the future will look like, according to MR Digital and Stefano Boeri
What will the school of the future look like? According to MR Digital and Stefano Boeri Interiors it will have Learning Environments 4.0 that will revolutionize classrooms as we have known them so far. And to give the public a glimpse of how our chil...Read more...
Antonio Cifrondi pittor fantastico exhibition opens at the Museo Arte Tempo in Clusone
In the year of "Bergamo Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023," the City of Clusone celebrates one of its great exponents of pictorial art, Antonio Cifrondi (Clusone, 1656 - Brescia, 1730), with two special initiatives dedicated to him and part of ...Read more...
Fantini Mosaics and Brera Academy together for an exhibition and competition on the art of mosaics
For the first time in its 120-year history, Fantini Mosaici has promoted a creative competition for young talents,"A Tale of Beauty, Decor, Matter and Surfaces. Investigation into the expressive forms of mosaic art." Conceived and promoted in collabo...Read more...
A tribute exhibition to Joan Miró at Trieste's Museo Revoltella
The Museo Revoltella - Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Trieste presents, from April 29 to September 24, the exhibition Homage to Miró, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, together with Maïthé Vallès-Bled and Vincenzo Sanfo, and prod...Read more...
Design Week 2023, Pandolfini exhibits iconic furniture and objects of Italian and international design
In conjunction with Design Week 2023, the event that celebrates Milan as the capital of international design, Pandolfini is presenting Design Spotlight in Milan from April 20 to 23 at its headquarters in Via Manzoni 45: a selection of furniture and o...Read more...
Design in Milan, what to see: 10 places of design
Milan, city of art, fashion, and design evolves by anticipating, stopping the moment and enhancing it, showcasing new forms that creativity has unleashed in this land or that this city has welcomed by appreciating its value. A cosmopolitan city, a ca...Read more...
Milan, inaugurated Building Third Floor with an exhibition dedicated to Picasso
In Milan, the Building gallery expands and presents Building Terzo Piano, a nuvo spazio that stems from the desire to explore creativity in all its facets, through unprecedented ways not yet experienced in Building and Buildingbox. From April 14 t...Read more...
Stefano Boeri's giant swing arrives at the Statale di Milano for Design Week
On the occasion of Milan Design Week 2023, Stefano Boeri Interiors presented this morning SWING, a special swing that is the protagonist of The Amazing Playground, a large interactive and experiential space that Amazon brings to the INTERNI Design Re...Read more...
In Milan's Darsena, the floating platform by Michele De Lucchi and AMDL
A barefoot promenade on Milan's Darsena . This is The Sea Deck installation, designed by AMDL CIRCLE and Michele De Lucchi for Azimut Yachts on the occasion of Milan Design Week 2023. Visible until Sunday, April 23, the work tells the story of the de...Read more...
Milan Design Week 2023, what to see: 15 installations not to be missed
April 17, 2023, Design Week 2023 starts in Milan, and as every year, on the occasion of the Salone del Mobile, the city is filled with entrepreneurs, designers, artists, collectors, and enthusiasts from all over the world. Design Week is one of the m...Read more...
Dante mountaineer, in Valseriana a reading-show brings to life the climb to Earthly Paradise
On Saturday, April 29, 2023, a reading-performance dedicated to the Supreme Poet will be held in Clusone (Bergamo) at 4 p.m., accompanying participants in the event titled Dante the Mountaineer to the Shrine of the Holy Trinity on Colle Crosio. The ...Read more...
Fontanellato's Masone Labyrinth launches shuttle service from Fidenza station
Franco Maria Ricci's Labirinto della Masone launches a new service for its public, dedicated to those who do not travel by car: from April 22 to June 25, 2023, every Saturday and Sunday a shuttle service will be running from Fidenza station, specific...Read more...
David LaChapelle to receive lifetime achievement award at 14th Florence Biennale
To American artist David LaChapelle (Cunnecticut, 1963) the "Lorenzo il Magnifico" Lifetime Achievement Award of the 14th Florence Biennale. International Exhibition of Contemporary Art and Design, which will take place at the Fortezza da Basso in Fl...Read more...
Reggio Emilia, at the Palazzo dei Musei the Luigi Ghirri Award with a group show of photographers under 35
From April 28 to June 11, 2023, the Palazzo dei Musei in Reggio Emilia will host the tenth edition of Young Italian Photography #10 | Luigi Ghirri Prize 2023, entitled Belonging. Moving to the new venue, the exhibition project, supported by internati...Read more...
Francesca Piovesan's photographic sculptures open the new Cavea Marini in Milan
Cavea Marini, the new space in the heart of Milan 's historic Ceppo di Gré® quarry, has opened to the public, and inaugurating it is the multisensory art installation that will remain on view until July 31, 2023, curated by Sabino Maria Fr...Read more...
In Bologna, the exhibition on Japanese Y?kai. And you get your money back if you didn't like it
After the great success at the Villa Reale in Monza( newshere ), the exhibition YÅkai. Ancient Japanese Monster Prints comes to Bologna, in Palazzo Pallavicini, from April 7 to July 23, 2023. Conceived and produced by Vertigo Syndrome and curated by...Read more...
Luca Zuccala is the new editor of ArtsLife
Change of top management at ArtsLife, one of Italy's most authoritative art magazines and the main point of reference for everything related to the art market and beyond. In fact, the title has a new editor in chief: he is Luca Zuccala, who succeeds ...Read more...
Eraclea Minoa (Agrigento), illegal excavations discovered. And it is not the first time
In Heraclea Minoa, in the province of Agrigento, there must be a great treasure, a treasure buried somewhere in what is now the Valley of the Temples Archaeological Park, or in its immediate vicinity, because in recent days illegal excavations have ...Read more...
Art on TV April 17-23: Caravaggio, Man Ray and Dalí
What are the best TV programs dedicated to art from April 17 to 23? Let's find out together On Rai 3 the airing of Discovering the Golden Bough continues from Monday to Friday at 3:25 pm. On Rai 5 on Wednesday, April 19 at 9:14 p.m. there will be a...Read more...
The Correr Museum pays tribute to Carla Accardi with a selection of works in dialogue with the museum's historical environments
From April 28 to October 29, 2023, the Correr Museum in Venice, in the Sala delle Quattro Porte, presents the exhibition Carla Accardi. The 1970s: the Sheets, curated by Chiara Squarcina and Pier Paolo Pancotto, in collaboration with Archivio Accardi...Read more...
Milan, 20 gallery exhibitions opening during Design Week
Are art galleries being overwhelmed by Milan Design Week? Judging by the numbers, it wouldn't seem so: several galleries will be open, or will be organizing finissages of their already open exhibitions right during Design Week, but there ...Read more...
From Turin to Florence: at Villa Bardini the monographic exhibition of Lisetta Carmi, with unpublished sections
From May 3 to October 8, 2023 Villa Bardini in Florence hosts the monographic exhibition Lisetta Carmi. Playing Strong, curated by Giovanni Battista Martini, curator of the photographer's Archive. The exhibition is dedicated to one of the greatest ph...Read more...
The Crema Museum displays from storage the first works from the Stramezzi collection
The Pinacoteca del Museo Civico di Crema e del Cremasco inaugurates Saturday, April 22 at 5:30 p.m. the second edition of Depositi esposti, a review with which the Crema Museum too, aligning itself with what has already been experimented by other mus...Read more...
Robert Capa's photos and reportages in more than two decades on display in Aosta
After Robert Doisneau and Tina Modotti, the two hits of the past months, great international photography returns to the Saint-Bénin Center in Aosta. This time with a protagonist in the world history of photography who has risen to myth: Robert...Read more...
Rome, restoration of the sumptuous fireplace in the Salone d'Ercole of Palazzo Farnese begins
Restoration work on the fireplace and allegorical statues in the Salone d'Ercole in Palazzo Farnese, home of theFrench Embassy in Italy, is starting in Rome . The operation is made possible thanks to the support of the Palazzetti company in collabora...Read more...
Sicily of the Florios: what to see, 8 stops
There is a family that between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries made Palermo one of the capitals of the international jet set, a regular destination for crowned heads, captains of industry, renowned artists and architects invited by what was on...Read more...
Working in culture, the week's vacancies and open positions
As every week, the appointment for those seeking jobs in culture is renewed. Vacancies, open positions and calls for applications we have gathered from April 7 to 14. Windows on Art has opened selections for external collaborators for the subjects d...Read more...
Royal Palace of Caserta, visitor steals floor tile. Framed by cameras, denounced
A visitor to the Royal Palace of Caserta was walking through the entrance door to the Hall of Battles, in the 19th-century wing, when he noticed, by stepping on it, that a floor tile was wobbling. After a few seconds, he went back to the spot of the ...Read more...
Paestum reveals new discoveries: hundreds of votive offerings, statues and altars found in Doric temple
Paestum Archaeological Park is revealing big surprises as work is underway to unearth the Doric temple unearthed in 2019 along the ancient city's west wall. The temple's stone plinth and cella that housed the statue of the deity, painted terracotta...Read more...
Mantua, a new line of socks inspired by the Hall of the Zodiac on sale at Palazzo d'Arco
L'Arte inCalza is back at the Museum of Palazzo d'Arco in Mantua, to amaze with new experiments and creations: after the first successful experience, on the occasion of which two hundred and forty pairs of socks were sold in three months and whose pr...Read more...
From Lviv to Carrara Academy, two sculpted angels bring message of peace
From the National Gallery of Art in Lviv two works, two wooden sculptures by Franciszek Oledzki (Lviv, c. 1745 - 1792), arrive on loan to theCarrara Academy in Bergamo to bring a message of peace. The sculptures depict two angels that, in addition t...Read more...
Pontremoli Baroque: April 16 extraordinary opening day at the city's palaces
The marvelous historic pal aces of Pontremoli, a small Baroque capital in northern Tuscany, will exceptionally open their doors to the public on Sunday, April 16, 2023: with the Pontremoli Barocca event, in fact, the town will celebrate its artistic ...Read more...
Dosso and Battista Dossi together for an exhibition at Trento's Castello del Buonconsiglio
The Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento hosts from July 1 to October 22, 2023 the exhibition I volti della Sapienza. Dosso and Battista Dossi in the Library of Bernardo Cles, curated by Vincenzo Farinella and Laura Dal Prà. Between late 1531...Read more...
At the Merz Foundation a story in images of Palermo's history from the 1950s to 1992
Fondazione Merz presents from April 17 to Sept. 24, 2023, in collaboration with Letizia Battaglia International Center of Photography, the group exhibition Palermo Mon Amour. Curated by Valentina Greco, the exhibition aims to restore the history of P...Read more...
At the Gallerie d'Italia in Vicenza, the exhibition-tribute to Elena Xausa, illustrator recently deceased
From April 15 to Sept. 10, 2023, the Gallerie d'Italia, in their Vicenza location, will host the exhibition EX - Illustri x Elena Xausa, dedicated to Elena Xausa (1984-2022), an internationally renowned Italian illustrator and artist who recently pas...Read more...
Free guided tours of the construction site of the Juvarrian facade of Palazzo Madama, 28 meters above sea level
The first free guided tours of the restoration and consolidation site of the Juvarra façade of Palazzo Madama and Giovanni Baratta's monumental statues will kick off on Saturday, April 22, at 9:30 a.m., with the extraordinary contribution of the CRT...Read more...
Farewell to Mary Quant, the designer who popularized the miniskirt
At the age of 93, Mary Quant, the famous fashion designer considered to be the one who invented the miniskirt, has passed away. A statement released by the family said she passed away peacefully this morning at her Surrey home. Born in February 1930...Read more...
Digitized in very high definition the letters of Lucrezia Borgia
"Lucretia Estense de Borgia" or "the duchess of Ferrara," is how Lucrezia (1480 - 1519) signed her name in letters written between 1502 and 1519, largely preserved at the State Archives of Modena and now digitized thanks to the support of the Fondazi...Read more...
Expanded hours and evening openings for the Museum of the Medici Chapels, increasingly accessible
Michelangelo's New Sacristy, the Chapel of the Princes, and the crypt where the grand dukes of the Medici family and their relatives rest: the Medici Chapels Museum, an integral part of the Bargello Museums group, is becoming increasingly accessible,...Read more...
Milan, restoration team will be needed to clean monument daubed by activists
It will take a specialized team of restorers to clean up the equestrian monument to Victor Emmanuel II in Milan's Piazza Duomo , created by Ercole Rosa between 1879 and 1896. This is the news coming out just hours after the Council of Ministers annou...Read more...
Manifattura Tabacchi opens new space with Palazzo Strozzi's Fuorimostra and a rooftop garden
Manifattura Tabacchi has opened a new multifunctional space in the heart of theformer Florentine cigar factory with a special exhibition dedicated to Katja Novitskova, open free to the public until June 18, 2023. Realized as part of Palazzo Strozzi's...Read more...
Dante's Train returns. From Florence to Ravenna in a day on a historic train
The historic Centoporte train made available by the Fondazione FS Italiane that departs from Florence and arrives in Ravenna and then returns to the Tuscan capital will run on the rails again this 2023: in fact, after last year's success with the pub...Read more...
Bergamo, pensioner explains monuments: fined for abusive practice of guiding profession
Finding a way to keep yourself busy as a retiree by using what you learned while on the job can be dangerous. In fact, it has happened that a retired art education teacher has joined the University for All Ages in Casatenovo (Lecco), a way to engage ...Read more...
Is there a new painting by Artemisia Gentileschi? Change of attribution for the Abraham with angels
There is a new Artemisia Gentileschi painting out there: it is actually a new attribution, because the work does not represent a new discovery. The painting in question, Abraham and Three Angels, appeared on the market in 2014 in Paris, assigned at t...Read more...
Auctions April 12-18: modern art, furniture and carpets
Had a good Easter? Then we can take a look at the auctions from April 12 to 18. We would like to remind you that Pandolfini has the Montelupo: Renaissance Majolica auction open until April 19. Three auctions at Wannenes: April 12 ends Paintings of ...Read more...
After Caravaggio at Vinitaly, Bernini at the airport: the Salvator Mundi at Fiumicino Terminal 1
After Caravaggio at Vinitaly, we now have Bernini at the airport. Indeed, if the great Lombard painter's Bacchus was not enough at the wine fair, as of today at Terminal 1 ofFiumicino's "Leonardo da Vinci" airport the last masterpiece by Gian Lorenzo...Read more...
Surprise: Uffizi Diffusi will land at Vittoriale with a project on D'Annunzio
The Uffizi Diffusi is ready to move out of Tuscany and land on the shores of Lake Garda, in the home of Gabriele d'Annunzio, the Vittoriale degli Italiani. The grand program to bring and exhibit works from the deposits of the famous Florentine museum...Read more...
Gemma De Angelis Testa's entire donation, from Kiefer to Bill Viola, on display at Ca' Pesaro
On display in the second floor spaces of Ca' Pesaro in Venice from April 22 to September 17, 2023 will be the entire Gemma De Angelis Testa donation, the most recent acquisition for the Gallery's collections and, in terms of the extent and quality of...Read more...
Urbs Scripta, the first festival dedicated to historic Venetian graffiti, is born
From Thursday, April 13 to Sunday, April 16, Urbs Scripta, the first festival dedicated to historic Venetian graffiti, will be held in Venice. It is an opportunity to discover their places and meanings, covering six hundred years of history, from the...Read more...
The loneliness of contemporary being. HH LIM's exhibition-manifesto in Milan.
Cramum and Gaggenau bring Sino-Malaysian artist HH Lim back to Milan, after four Venice Biennials and seven years away from the Lombard capital, with the exhibition NO, NO? NO. NO! curated by Sabino Maria Frassà. Set up at the Gaggenau DesignE...Read more...
At the Fortress of Bard on display the most beautiful images of the international nature photography award
From April 21 to July 16, 2023, the Fortress of Bard will host the 58th edition of Wildlife Photographer of the Year, the most important award dedicated to wildlife photography sponsored by the Natural History Museum in London. A total of 38,575 imag...Read more...
New underwater mosaic discovered in Baia, featuring intertwining blue lines
The Bay of Naples continues to amaze. After the surprising discovery in January with the discovery of the mosaic of Portus Julius, the seabed of the Submerged Park of Baiacontinues to give valuable pieces: in fact, it is these days the discovery of a...Read more...
Maxi-fines from 10 to 60 thousand euros for those who deface art: government supports bill
The regulation of crimes against cultural property is about to change shape. Today, in fact, the government decided to act on its own and, in the council of ministers held at 4 p.m., welcomed the bill proposed by Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano ...Read more...
Boston retrospective of Simone Leigh traces two decades of her art
Through September 4, 2023, theInstitute of Contemporary Art in Boston is hosting a solo exhibition Simone Leigh by the eponymous artist who represented the United States at the fifty-ninth Venice Biennale and was awarded the Golden Lion as the best p...Read more...
Ten international photographers star at Vatican Chapels in the woods of St. George's Island
From May 18 to November 26, on the occasion of the Architecture Biennale 2023, the Giorgio Cini Foundation is presenting at the Vatican Chapels in the woods ofSt. George's Island, the group exhibition Sacred Landscape, designed to narrate the relatio...Read more...
Isernia's National Paleolithic Museum reopens to the public, refurbished
On Friday, April 14 at 4:30 p.m., the National Paleolithic Museum in Isernia will reopen to the public with an opening ceremony presided over by Museums General Director Massimo Osanna. In attendance will be Molise Regional Museums Director Enrico Ri...Read more...
The challenge between artists is won by Lavinia Fontana: her masterpiece from the Pinacoteca di Bologna will be restored
TheApparition of the Madonna and Child to the Saints Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, Agnes, Ursula and Barbara, a painting by Lavinia Fontana (Bologna, 1552 - Rome, 1614) preserved at the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna will soon be restored, than...Read more...
Record-breaking Uffizi. For Easter never so many visitors as this year
The Uffizi has never seen so many visitors over the Easter weekend: the 2023 Easter holidays set an all-time record at the Florentine institution, where an impressive 91,369 admissions were recorded between Friday, Saturday, Easter and Easter Monday....Read more...
BPER Bank gallery for the first time in Genoa: masterpieces from the Genoa and Modena cores on display
From April 21 to July 23, 2023, the BPER Banca Gallery presents for the first time in Genoa the exhibition Sinfonie d'Arte. Masterpieces in Dialogue between Modena and Genoa, staged at Palazzo Doria Carcassi, curated by Anna Orlando and Lucia Peruzzi...Read more...
An Italian team of scholars has discovered an important new technique for larcheology
An all-Italian team has developed an innovative method that will revolutionize the field ofarchaeology. Scholars have used it with surprising results on archaeological bones, making the invisible visible. These important results, published in the jou...Read more...
Mantua, news at the Ducal Palace: the tour route is expanded and the Corte Nuova reopens
Important news in Mantua for the Ducal Palace. The visiting itinerary is widened: in fact, the Corte Nuova itinerary reopens. It is therefore possible to visit Giulio Romano's L'Appartamento di Troia with a renovated layout, the newly restored Galler...Read more...
Rome, Villa Farnesina hosts exhibition dedicated to Raphael and Agostino Chigi
The anniversary of the death of Raphael, who disappeared on April 6, 1520, coincides with another anniversary: the passing of the pope's very rich banker, the Sienese Agostino Chigi, on April 11, 1520, only five days after the Urbino master. As is we...Read more...
We sell Klimt's Judith to finance the stadium. Venice, alderman's shock proposal
It sounds like a belated April Fool's joke, but in reality he is dead serious about the Venice City Council's Councillor for Mobility, Infrastructure and Roads, Renato Boraso, who in an interview with the daily La Nuova Venezia launches what has been...Read more...
Mario Turetta is the new secretary general of the Ministry of Culture
The Ministry of Culture finally has a new secretary general: he is Mario Turetta, MiC's top executive. The Council of Ministers, at its meeting last Thursday, April 6, 2023, held at Palazzo Chigi and chaired by President Giorgia Meloni, at the propos...Read more...
Cinque Terre, some steps of the Monesteroli Steps landslide: closed
Easterbitter for hikers who were planning a walk on the Grand Staircase in Monesteroli (La Spezia) on Easter Monday: Saturday it was in fact transennaded because 5 stone steps part of the steep path, overlooking the sea, collapsed, and after the insp...Read more...
Ronciglione is the Borgo dei Borghi 2023
It is Ronciglione the "Borgo dei Borghi" 2023: the town in the province of Viterbo won this year's competition that each year, traditionally on Easter Day, pits twenty Italian villages (one per region) against each other on Rai Tre as part of the suc...Read more...
On newsstands a Mickey Mouse on contemporary art, introduced by Jacopo Veneziani
A Mickey Mouse special all about art. In fact, the collectible TopoLibro oncontemporary art, out with issue 3515 of Mickey Mouse, has been on newsstands since last April 5. Introduced by art historian and popularizer Jacopo Veneziani, the TopoLibro o...Read more...
Art on TV April 10-16: Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci and Steve McCurry
We wish you a Happy Easter and discover together the TV programs dedicated to art from April 10 to 16. On Rai 3 continues the airing of Discovering the Golden Bough from Monday to Friday at 3:25 pm. On Rai 5 Monday and Tuesday at 7:25 p.m. will be ...Read more...
Restoration of Siena Cathedral organs completed. The last intervention in 2000
Theorgan of the Cathedral of Siena, which is constantly undergoing routine checks and tuning to ensure its best efficiency while respecting its considerable historical material, was in such a condition of integrity that it did not require complete re...Read more...
In Pietrasanta, the first Italian solo exhibition of Russian artist Alisa Yoffe, who makes works with iPhones
From April 7 to June 18, 2023 at the Ex Marmi on Via Nazario Sauro 52 in Pietrasanta, the first solo exhibition in Italy of Russian artist Alisa Yoffe (Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 1987), organized by The Project Space and Tg residency and curated by Sofiya...Read more...
Genoa, 10 unusual places off the beaten path of mass tourism
"With that face a little bit like that, with that expression a little bit like that that we have before we go to Genoa...": so sang Bruno Lauzi (or Paolo Conte, depending on which version you prefer) in that habanera tango with the overwhelming rhyth...Read more...
Family Portrait painted by Degas restored thanks to Friends of Florence
The Family Portrait made by Edgar Degas and kept at the Musée d'Orsay has been restored thanks to Friends of Florence and until July 23, 2023, it will be displayed as part of the major exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay dedicated to Manet ...Read more...
Rome hosts solo exhibition of Maurizio Cannavacciuolo, one of Italy's most original postmodern artists
The painting of Maurizio Cannavacciuolo (Naples, 1954), i.e., one of the most original, ironic and complex Italian postmodern artists, is on display at Visionarea ArtSpace in Rome in two unprecedented cycles of works that seem to depict the coexisten...Read more...
In Orbetello, Virginia Overton's giant concrete tulip.
The fifth edition of the Hypermaremma contemporary art festival officially opened this morning with the unveiling of Tulip, the monumental sculptural work by artist Virginia Overton. Placed at Orbetello 's Polveriera Guzman and facing the lagoon, Tul...Read more...
Orpheus and sirens, still doubts about authenticity. Ministry will subject the statues to studies
Doubts are again hovering over the authenticity ofOrpheus and the Sirens, the rare Magna-Greek sculptural group from 350-300 B.C., which illegally left Italy, was purchased in Switzerland in 1976 by the Getty Museum (it is precisely on the Swiss mark...Read more...
Cristiana Capotondi will be Margherita Hack in a Rai film dedicated to the astrophysicist
Shooting began at the end of March on the film Margherita of the Stars, directed by Giulio Base and written by Monica Zapelli with Federico Taddia, which aims to tell the life of Margherita Hack on TV. Based on the autobiographical book Nove vite com...Read more...
Turin, at Villa della Regina over 40 shots tell the story of the dog as a true member of the family
From April 20 to June 25, 2023, Villa della Regina in Turin will host the exhibition Divas. Dog Portraits. More than forty works will be placed between the Villa's Piano Nobile and different rooms, never open to the public before, in a path that inte...Read more...
Florence, Accademia Gallery recovers Facebook profile a month after hacker attack
The Accademia Gallery in Florence has finally regained possession of the museum's official Facebook profile a month after thehacking attack it suffered, when unknown individuals had taken over the page by fraudulently posting violent film clips in a ...Read more...
Where will tourists go on vacation for Easter 2023?
Under the motto of "Easter with whom you want," there are many Italians and foreigners who will get out of cases to take a trip in the Easter week that once again confirms the driving power of art cities especially at this time of year (far from the ...Read more...
Pisa, National Geographic's Planet Earth exhibition at Palazzo Blu.
From April 7 to June 25, Palazzo Blu in Pisa is hosting National Geographic's third exhibition for the Explore cycle: titled Planet Earth, the photo exhibition follows the success of the previous editions On the Moon and Beyond and Oceans, the Last F...Read more...
Working in culture, this week's vacancies
Back again this Friday is the event for those looking for jobs in culture. Vacancies, open positions and calls we have gathered from April 1-7. Windows on Art has opened selections for external collaborators for the subjects design and contemporary ...Read more...
An exhibition on Picasso in Sarzana on the 50th anniversary of his death
The city of Sarzana is dedicating an exhibition to Pablo Picasso (Malaga, 1881 - Mougins, 1973) on the 50th anniversary of his death: the City of Sarzana with the organization of Paloma, a project of Comediarting, and in collaboration with the Museo ...Read more...
Villa Pignatelli hosts Gianni Berengo Gardin's first solo exhibition in Naples
Villa Pignatelli hosts from April 6 to July 9, 2023 the first solo exhibition in Naples of Gianni Berengo Gardin (Santa Margherita Ligure, 1930). It is the exhibition entitled Gianni Berengo Gardin. L'occhio come mestiere, curated by Margherita Gucci...Read more...
Perugia announces exhibition that places Perugino in dialogue with Burri
From June 21 to Oct. 2, 2023, Palazzo Baldeschi, Corso Vannucci, Perugia, will host the exhibition NERO Perugino/Burri, commissioned by Fondazione Perugia as part of the activities promoted for the celebrations of the five-hundredth anniversary of th...Read more...
After Florence and Milan, Vatican Museums welcome casts of Michelangelo's three Pieta
On the occasion of Easter, the Vatican Museums are opening to the public until Jan. 6, 2024, the exhibition Michelagnolo's Love and Effort Together. The casts of the three Pieta, dedicated to the three Pieta by Michelangelo Buonarroti. Set up at the ...Read more...
Evening openings until 11:30 p.m. and guided tours of Perugino exhibition in Perugia
Thanks to the support of Confindustria Umbria - Perugia Section, it will be possible to visit the major exhibition at the National Gallery of Umbria dedicated to Pietro Vannucci known as Perugino, entitled Il meglio maestro d'Italia. Perugino in his ...Read more...
Lucca dedicates an exhibition to the dense epistolary web of Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi
On Friday, April 7, the exhibition Le lettere di Elisa: così governava la Principessa di Lucca, curated by Roberta Martinelli, opens to the public in the fresco room on the ground floor of the San Micheletto complex, home of the Fondazione Cas...Read more...
Ravenna, an exhibition at MAR examines the relationship between Alberto Burri and the city
The MAR - Art Museum of the City of Ravenna, as part of the8th Biennial of Contemporary Mosaic, presents the exhibition BURRIRAVENNAORO, a review dedicated to Alberto Burri, curated by Bruno Corà, hosted in the first and second floor rooms of ...Read more...
Piacenza, in Volumnia gallery exhibition on Milanese architect and designer Franco Albini
Franco Albini. Method and Poetry is the title of the retrospective curated by Stefano Andrea Poli on one of the most significant architects of the 20th century: Franco Albini (Robbiate, Oct. 17, 1905 - Milan, Nov. 1, 1977), a Milanese architect and d...Read more...
The precious sculptural group of Orpheus and the Sirens returns permanently to Taranto
The result of a clandestine excavation in an archaeological area in the Taranto area in the 1970s and later illegally exported to the United States of America, the sculptural group of Orpheus and the Sirens is finally coming home. The work, consistin...Read more...
For Maundy Thursday, the Cenacolo Vinciano opens its doors to inmates of Opera prison
Today the Cenacolo Vinciano will open its doors to special visitors: inmates of Milan's Opera prison. This was announced by Emanuela Daffra, Regional Director Museums Lombardy. "On the evening of Maundy Thursday, thanks to the sponsorship of America...Read more...
Drunk at museum, broke statue and created US-China diplomatic incident: will plea bargain sentence
It will cost dearly for a Philadelphia young man's night out at the museum, who in 2017 got drunk during an evening event at the Franklin Institute and broke a finger on a statue of a terracotta army knight loaned from China to the American museum. T...Read more...
Pieve di Teco, reopens the Diocesan Museum at the Oratory of the Madonna della Ripa
After the reopening of the Diocesan Museum of Albenga, with its renovated layout and temporary exhibition "In Coena Domini" (March 31-October 1, 2023) featuring the Last Supper of Villa Guardia on display and musealized, another reopening affects thi...Read more...
Livorno City Museum director appointed: he is art historian Paolo Cova
At last, the Museum of the City of Livorno has its scientific director. In fact, the selection by qualifications and interview for the position has been concluded, and the commission's verdict smiles on art historian Paolo Cova, who gets the appointm...Read more...
At the Trento Civic Gallery, Fogarolli's solo exhibition investigates the boundary between normality and deviance
The Trento Civic Gallery continues its investigation of the contemporary by welcoming until June 4, 2023 Christian Fogarolli's solo exhibition entitled Christian Fogarolli. Decade. Based on an idea by Vittorio Sgarbi and curated by Gabriele Lorenzoni...Read more...
Gamba Castle celebrates Mario Cresci's deep connection to the Aosta Valley
The Gamba Castle in Châtillon - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Aosta Valley hosts until June 18, 2023 the exhibition Mon cher Abbé Bionaz! Mario Cresci a photographer for the Aosta Valley. Curated by Luca Fiore and produced...Read more...
Auctions April 5-11: contemporary art, coins and majolica
Easter is just a short time away, and we bring you the best auctions from April 5 to 11 At Pandolfini 's, the Montelupo Time Auction : Renaissance Majolica will start on April 11 and end on the 19th. Among the lots for sale are majolica plates, tank...Read more...
Italy's luxury tourism sector is booming
There are the torpedoes that drop off hordes of tourists with sandwich and water bottle for a hit-and-run tour of our cities of art, but there are also those who plan a vacation with all the comforts to quietly enjoy their chosen destination for thei...Read more...
European Photography 2023 reflects on Europe's restless identity
From April 28 to June 11, 2023, Fotografia Europea, the international cultural festival dedicated to contemporary photography produced and promoted by the Palazzo Magnani Foundation and the Municipality of Reggio Emilia with the contribution of the E...Read more...
Rome, Casa Balla reopens by popular demand from April 6
Starting Thursday, April 6, 2023, by popular demand, the Futurist House of Giacomo Balla (Turin, 1871 - Rome, 1958) in Rome will reopen to the public after several months of a stop to visits. This is the house where the great Futurist artist Giacomo ...Read more...
Florence, three Orsanmichele masterpieces move temporarily to Bargello
Three masterpieces from the Orsanmichele Museum are being moved a few hundred meters in order to allow the public to continue admiring them during the closure of the monumental complex for work that began last December and is scheduled to end on Sept...Read more...
An exhibition on Leonardo da Vinci's atelier at the Leo Lev Center in Vinci
It is titled The Universes of Leonardo da Vinci the exhibition that, from April 2, 2023, the Leo Lev Exhibition Center in Vinci (Florence), is organizing in its spaces to narrate the "Achademia" of Leonardo da Vinci, that is, the artist's atelier, fo...Read more...
In Milan, BUILDING dedicates an exhibition to the visual deceptions of Aldo Mondino
In Milan, BUILDING presents from April 5 to June 17, 2023 the exhibition Aldo Mondino. Rules for Deception, curated by Alberto Fiz and with the collaboration of theAldo MondinoArchive. Dedicated to Aldo Mondino (Turin, Italy, 1938 - 2005), one of the...Read more...
UNESCO director-general's visit to Ukraine. 6.9 billion will be needed for culture
Visit to Ukraine forUNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay, who was in Kyiv, Chernihiv , and Odessa between yesterday and today to meet with top national authorities. In particular, during her visit, Azoulay had the opportunity to confer with Preside...Read more...
Contemporary art at elementary school. Fondazione CRT launches call for schools in Piedmont.
The Call for Proposals aulArte, a project conceived and promoted by the Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT and aimed at all elementary school in the Piedmont region, has been published to promote the knowledge and dissemination ofconte...Read more...
Vicenza, at the Coppola Foundation the double solo exhibition of Matthias Weischer and Flavio De Marco
Double solo exhibition at the Coppola Foundation in Vicenza, which from May 6 to July 30, 2023 presents Stanze, an exhibition by Flavio De Marco (Lecce, 1975) and Matthias Weischer (Elte, Germany, 1973), which can be visited in the spaces of the Torr...Read more...
MANN, new Campania Romana section inaugurated in historic rooms closed for more than 50 years
This morning saw the opening in the presence of Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano of the new section "Campania Romana. Sculptures and Paintings from Public Buildings" of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples: 2,000 square meters of rooms in...Read more...
Padua, New Church of St. Agnes reopens after lengthy restoration
After a long recovery and restoration work started in 2015 thanks to the Alberto Peruzzo Foundation, theformer Church of Sant'Agnese, among the oldest architectures in the historic center of Padua, is now open to the public. After a series of cultura...Read more...
Bologna, at Pinacoteca Nazionale completely rearranged Renaissance rooms
The Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, after hosting the exhibition Julius II and Raphael. A New Season of the Renaissance in Bologna, reopens the Renaissance rooms, those with works from the 15th and 16th centuries, which are presented with a new exhi...Read more...
Borghese Gallery hosts first exhibition dedicated to Dosso Dossi's Aeneas frieze
The Borghese Gallery presents from April 4 to June 11, 2023 the previously unseen exhibition Dosso Dossi. The Frieze of Aeneas, curated by Marina Minozzi. This is the first exhibition dedicated to the great Ferrarese artist's pictorial cycle. On thi...Read more...
Rolli Days returns with an edition dedicated to Genoa as queen of the sea
From April 28 to May 1, 2023, Rolli Days will return to Genoa in their spring edition. The leitmotif of this edition will be The Sea, Genoa and its Palaces: four days immersed in beauty, among art, culture and the sea; an opportunity not to be missed...Read more...
Florence Academy Gallery, University of Florence students narrate the museum's paintings
The Galleria dell'Accademia of Florence and the Department of History, Archaeology, Geography, Art and Performing Arts - SAGAS of the University of Florence present the In punta di pennello project, which will involve students in a program of activit...Read more...
Turin's GAM devotes an exhibition to Italian sculpture between 1940 and 1980
The GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Turin presents from April 4 to September 10, 2023 the exhibition Viaggio al termine della statuaria. Italian Sculpture 1940-1980 from the GAM Collections, with which the museum intends to co...Read more...
Photographing the Park: at the Fortress of Bard the exhibition of the winners of the sixteenth edition of the competition
Ongoing at the Scuderie del Forte di Bard(AO), until April 25, is the exhibition of the winning and mentioned photos of the 16th edition of the international nature photography contest Fotografare il Parco, organized by the Gran Paradiso, Stelvio, Ab...Read more...
Bologna hosts first monographic exhibition on painter Giuseppe Marchesi known as Samson
Giuseppe Marchesi (Bologna, 1699-1771), of restless temperament and imposing build, to which he owed his nickname Samson, was among the most fruitful painters in cosmopolitan 18th-century Bologna, where the art scene was as lively as ever. But the ar...Read more...
Miart 2023: Growing. International modern and contemporary art fair returns to Milan.
From April 14-16, 2023, miart, Milan's international modern and contemporary art fair organized by Fiera Milano and directed for the third year by Nicola Ricciardi, returns. With 169 participating galleries (a double-digit increase over 2022), from ...Read more...
Art on TV April 3-9: Raphael, Titian, Emilio Isgrò
Let's look forward to Easter with the best TV programs dedicated to art. On Rai 3 Discovering the Golden Bough will be broadcast Tuesday through Friday at 3:25 pm. On Rai 5 from Monday to Friday at 7 p.m. reruns of Art Night will be broadcast. On W...Read more...
Filippo Boldini in Lugano's public collections: an exhibition at Pinacoteca Züst
Filippo Boldini in Lugano's public collections, curated by Alessandra Brambilla, traces the entire career of Filippo Boldini (Paradiso, 1900 - Lugano, 1989), a much-loved and collected artist in Canton Ticino, to whom exhibitions and publications hav...Read more...
Important new work by Romanino discovered. Going up for auction at Bertolami's
Romanino 's (Girolamo Romani; Brescia, c. 1485 - c. 1566) catalog is enriched with a new work, for a "resounding addition," as stated by the Bertolami auction house at which the painting will go on sale next April 27, with an estimate between 470 and...Read more...
Venice, 18th-century frescoes in Palazzo Badoer restored
Restorations have been completed in Venicein the two rooms on the first piano nobile of the Iuav University's headquarters in Palazzo Badoer: this is the conservative restoration of two ceilings decorated with frescoes and stuccoes from the late 18th...Read more...
Milan, at the Basilica of San Celso the exhibition Aperçues by Nina Carini
From March 7 to April 15, the spaces of the Basilica of San Celso in Milan will host the exhibition Aperçues, a solo show by artist Nina Carini (Palermo, 1984) curated by Angela Madesani and Rischa Paterlini. The exhibition project is realized...Read more...
An exhibition at Brescia Castle showcases a selection of precious Turkestan carpets
From April 1 to November 5, 2023, the Castle of Brescia will host the exhibition The Knots of the Garden of Paradise, organized by Fondazione Tassara, which has decided to make available, on the occasion of the events related to Bergamo Brescia Itali...Read more...
Bologna, finishes the restoration of Lavinia Fontana's Judith
Next Wednesday, April 5, at 11 a.m., the Civic Museums of Ancient Art of Bologna are organizing an event open to all to present the restoration of Lavinia Fontana 's Judith with the Head of Holofernes (Bologna, 1552 - Rome, 1614), preserved at the Mu...Read more...
Agrigento is the Italian Capital of Culture 2025
Agrigento has been officially named Italian Capital of Culture 2025. The first city to get the important recognition was Mantua in 2016, then Pistoia (2017), Palermo (2018) and Parma in 2020, which was also extended in 2021 because of the pandemic. ...Read more...
Rome, at the Alberto di Castro Antiquities Gallery an exhibition dedicated to Corrado Cagli
A journey into the surprising world of Corrado Cagli (Ancona, 1910 - Rome, 1976), a great painter and master of the 20th century: is the one proposed by the exhibition Cagli 1947-1959 at the Galleria Antichità Alberto Di Castro in Rome, curate...Read more...
Brescia, Luigi Basiletti exhibition celebrates 200 years since the start of excavations at the Capitolium
On the bicentenary of the beginning of the excavation of the Capitolium of Brescia, Fondazione Brescia Musei and Ateneo di Brescia celebrate the event with the exhibition Luigi Basiletti and Antiquity, dedicated to the painter, archaeologist, creator...Read more...
Milan, Zanele Muholi, African LGBTQIA+ artist and exponent of Visual Activism, on display at Mudec
For the past ten years, South African artist Zanele Muholi (Umlazi, South Africa 1972) has been among the most celebrated contemporary artists, as well as one of the most interesting voices in Visual Activism, but her work coincides in toto with her ...Read more...
Ferrara, an exhibition on the great students of Roberto Longhi: Pasolini, Bassani, Testori
In Ferrara, the Ariostesa Library is hosting, from April 3 to June 24, 2023, the exhibition-dossier Art and Literature in the Name of Roberto Longhi. Bassani, Pasolini, Testori set up in the spaces of the Ariosto Room of the Library, and organized by...Read more...
Altino, from April 1 the Archaeological Area reopens. And there will be tours organized as ... TV series
In the Veneto region, the archaeological area of Altino (Quarto d'Altino, Venice) reopens to the public: the archaeological areas will again be open to the public from April 1, and in the coming months the Cloaca will also be left on view while visit...Read more...
David's sculptures in Florence: a documentary chronicles all the Davids in Tuscany's capital city
A biblical hero, David, the young King of Judah and Israel who defeats the giant Goliath, is a symbolic figure of good fighting against evil, who, over the centuries, has fascinated so many artists that he has been the subject of various sculptures f...Read more...
Bologna, Museo Ottocento opens: a new museum on Bolognese painting of the 1800s and 1900s
The Museo Ottocento, a new institution dedicated to nineteenth- and twentieth-century Bolognese painting, is born in Bologna. It will be located in Piazza San Michele on Strada Maggiore, an axis that connects the International Museum and Library of M...Read more...
Venice, a new space opens: the Rooms of Photography. And it begins with Ugo Mulas
A new center for photography opens in Venice : these are the Stanze della Fotografia, the joint initiative of Marsilio Arte and the Giorgio Cini Foundation, destined to continue the path begun in 2012 at the Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice, in the convict...Read more...
In Jesi important anthology of Patrizio Di Massimo, among today's leading Italian painters
In Jesi, the Civic Museums of Palazzo Pianetti and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Jesi welcome, from April 23 to September 3, 2023, the exhibition Antologia (2013-2023) by Patrizio Di Massimo (Jesi, 1983), an internationally renowned artist, on...Read more...
Spoleto, controversy over appointment of young Saverio Verini as director of Civic Museums
There is controversy surrounding the appointment of the new director of Spoleto's civic museums : it is the young Saverio Verini, born in 1985 in Città di Castello, who will succeed Marco Tonelli at the helm of the contemporary art center in P...Read more...
Omar Hassan's art comes to Palermo for the first time with a brand new exhibition
The Royal Palace in Palermo is hosting until Oct. 1, 2023, the unprecedented exhibition PUNCTUM, conceived and designed by Italian-Egyptian artist Omar Hassan (Milan, 1987) with the Frederick II Foundation. After exhibiting in Miami and New York, via...Read more...
Carrara, Vôtre's 2023 season kicks off. It starts with historic names and Mimosa's solo exhibition
Double date for Vôtre Spazi Contemporanei in Carrara, one of the most active and innovative contemporary art spaces in Tuscany. Vôtre kicks off the 2023 exhibition season at its Palazzo del Medico venue in Carrara with two projects, both ...Read more...
Sarzana, at Cardelli & Fontana's Super Amateur solo exhibition by young Marco Salvetti
First gallery exhibition for young Tuscan artist Marco Salvetti (Pietrasanta, 1983), who is exhibiting at the solo show Super Amateur at Cardelli & Fontana gallery in Sarzana (La Spezia), from March 25 to May 13, 2023. On display are a series of ...Read more...
Auctions from March 29 to April 4: contemporary art, archaeology and ancient weapons
As Easter approaches, let's find out the best auctions from March 29 to April 4. Today, March 29, Pandolfini opens the Archaeology auction selling historical artifacts from AncientEgypt,Ancient Rome and other civilizations. Three auctions at Wannen...Read more...
Milan, Fabbrica Eos' historic headquarters reopens with exhibition of singer-songwriter and painter Francesco Tricarico
The historic location of Fabbrica Eos Arte Contemporanea in Milan 's Piazzale Baiamonti reopens to the public and does so, from March 30 to April 29, 2023, with a solo exhibition by Francesco Tricarico (Milan, 1971) entitled Don't stop the paint. The...Read more...
French judge agrees with Miriam Cahn, who exhibited shocking work on Bucha crimes
A controversy that had been launched by a deputy from Rassemblement national, a French extreme right-wing party, around the work Fuck Abstraction!, displayed at the Swiss artist's exhibition at the Paris museum, is resolved in favor of Miriam Cahn an...Read more...
At the Boboli Gardens, the Camellia Garden opens to the public for the first time.
In Florence , a secret corner that is now finally ready to welcome visitors after a long and complex restoration opens to the public for the first time in the Boboli Gardens: it is the Camellia Garden. This small green space, created in the shadow of...Read more...
Rome, restoration of the Altar of the Fatherland begins
The restoration campaign of theAltar of the Fatherland, promoted by the VIVE Institute - Vittoriano and Palazzo Venezia, directed by Edith Gabrielli, started today in Rome . The Vittoriano was conceived in the aftermath of Victor Emmanuel II's death ...Read more...
Ai Weiwei recreates Monet's Water Lilies with Legos: a 15-meter work
A major exhibition by Ai Weiwei (Beijing, 1957) entitled Ai Weiwei. Making Sense at the Design Museum in London: while waiting for it to open, the museum has unveiled an important, new work by the celebrated artist. It is Claude Monet's Water Lilies...Read more...
Amsterdam, scalpers go wild for Vermeer exhibition: tickets go for hundreds of euros
That the Jan Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam was destined to be a huge success was to be expected. Indeed, it is the largest retrospective ever devoted to the artist, capable of bringing together as many as twenty-eight works (i.e....Read more...
Fragments of Parthenon marbles that belonged to the Vatican returned to Greece
Last Friday, March 24, a ceremony was held at the Acropolis Museum in Athens for the return of the three fragments of the metopes, frieze and pediments of the Parthenon, which were returned to Greece by the Vatican Museums in a decision announced las...Read more...
An exhibition on Mauro Staccioli in Milan five years after his death
In Milan, Galleria A arte Invernizzi opened on March 9, 2023 an exhibition dedicated to Mauro Staccioli (Volterra, 1937 - Milan, 2018), ten years after his last solo exhibition in the same spaces, and five after the artist's death. Entitled Mauro Sta...Read more...
Archive of Regina Cassolo Bracchi, Italy's first avant-garde sculptor, is born
An initiative to highlight one of the most interesting Italian artists of the 20th century: Regina Cassolo Bracchi (Mede, 1894 - Milan, 1974). After the first major Italian museum retrospective presented at the GAMeC in Bergamo in 2021, following the...Read more...
Naples, an exhibition at MANN on the influence of ancient art on Picasso
From April 5 to August 27, 2023, the National Archaeological Museum in Naples is hosting the exhibition Picasso and Antiquity , which aims to illustrate the profound influence of one of the greatest museums of classical art on the work of one of the ...Read more...
From April 1, the Moorish Tower of Villa Torlonia will be open to visitors.
Following the opening to the public, from the end of 2021, of the Moorish Greenhouse, from April 1 until June 24, 2023, the Moorish Tower, another evocative and imposing construction that, together with the Moorish Greenhouse, constitutes the archite...Read more...
Castel Sant'Angelo brings 1960s fashion on display
From March 27 to May 21, 2023, the National Museum of Castel Sant'Angelo is hosting in the Superior Armories the exhibition-performance The Sweet Sixties: Narratives of Fashion, curated by Stefano Dominella and Guillermo Mariotto. Swinging London, M...Read more...
Pisa honored as best UNESCO site at tourismA, Archaeology and Cultural Tourism Exhibition
The city of Pisa has been awarded the ACTA(Archeological and Cultural Tourism Award), the new journalistic award of the Italian Tourism Press Group (GIST) dedicated to archeological and cultural tourism, as the best UNESCO site. The idea of introduci...Read more...
Irene Fenara's work investigating mechanical gazes on display at Palazzo Braschi
The Museo di Roma in Palazzo Braschi is hosting until April 9, 2023 the seventh exhibition of Portfolio, a section of the Quotidiana exhibition cycle, conceived and produced by the Quadriennale di Roma, in collaboration with Roma Culture, Sovrintende...Read more...
The Demetrio Stratos Archive will be based in Ravenna. Acquisition from region and municipality completed
In Ravenna, at Palazzo Malagola, the memorial space dedicated to Efstràtios Demetriou, aka Demetrio Stratos, the great musician and voice researcher who died in 1979 at the age of only thirty-four, will be housed in the eponymous Center for Vo...Read more...
Albenga's Diocesan Museum reopens with new layout and displays the Last Supper from Villa Guardia
The Diocesan Museum of Albenga will reopen on Friday, March 31, with a new layout and special temporary exhibition that will be on view to the public until October 1, 2023: In Coena Domini, this is the title of the exhibition, will display the precio...Read more...
The Pontifical Villas Train is back: the electric train that goes all the way to Castel Gandolfo
Thanks to the collaboration between the Vatican Museums and the FS Italian Group, until November 4, 2023, it is possible to board the Ville Pontificie Train, which every Saturday connects theold Vatican City train station with the Pontifical Villas o...Read more...
New York, major baseball team gave away museum admissions for fans
In the United States, the new season of MLB, Major League Baseball, the main professional baseball league, is about to begin: the start of games is set for March 30. And there is one team that, while waiting to take the field, has decided to combine ...Read more...
The Manifesto of the Future of Books is born. Delivered today to Minister Sangiuliano
After a year of appointments and initiatives around books and reading, Ivrea Italian Book Capital 2022 today presented the Manifesto for the Future of Books, handing it over to Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano representing the entire country. Di...Read more...
Art on TV March 26-31: Correggio, Parmigianino and Van Gogh
March draws to a close. Let's greet it with the best TV programs dedicated to art from March 26 to 31. On Rai 3 continues the airing of Discovering the Golden Bough from Monday to Friday at 3:25 pm. On Rai 5 on Tuesday, March 28 at 7:24 p.m. there ...Read more...
Anatomical waxes from Florence's La Specola on display at Fondazione Prada
From March 24 to July 17, 2023, the Fondazione Prada, in its Milan location, is hosting the exhibition Anatomical Waxes: The Specola of Florence | David Cronenberg, conceived in collaboration with La Specola, part of the Museum of Natural History and...Read more...
At Trento's MUSE No War, a site-specific work against all war
Agostino Carollo has created for the MUSE Museum of Science in Trento anunprecedented site-specific work that can be seen and heard at the museum every day at different times and is intended to communicate a strong and clear message: it is meant to r...Read more...
Two immersive portals will unite Bergamo and Brescia: soon to be installed TheGate2023
The mayors of Bergamo and Brescia cut a symbolic "start of work" ribbon for the construction of the two large portals of TheGate2023 installation. The two high-tech structures will directly connect the cities, which have been named Italian Capital of...Read more...
Italia Nostra's appeal granted: Villa Adriana is safe. Lazio Regional Administrative Court blocks Nathan's allotment
With sentence 04841/2023, the Lazio Regional Administrative Court (Second Extraction Section) has ruled on the appeal filed back in 2012 by Italia Nostra against the resolutions and authorizations issued by several Bodies starting from the Municipali...Read more...
Padua, Luxardo Museum opens, dedicated to historic liquor brand
The Luxardo Museum, a business museum dedicated to the historic brand of liqueurs and ingredients for artisanal confectionery, as well as one of the oldest distilleries in the world, has been inaugurated just a stone's throw from the company's headqu...Read more...
More than forty archaeological artifacts related to pre-Columbian cultures returned to Mexico
On March 24, 2023, at the headquarters of theEmbassy of Mexico in Italy, in Rome, in the presence of the Mexican Minister of Culture, Alejandra Frausto, and the Ambassador of Mexico to Italy Carlos Garcia di Alba, the Commander of the Carabinieri Tut...Read more...
Trani dedicates a monograph to Letizia Battaglia, one year after her death
The Beltrani Palace of Arts in Trani is hosting from March 31 to May 31, 2023 the exhibition Letizia Battaglia. Testimony and Narrative. A roundup of thirty black-and-white shots that have marked the visual memory of the history of our country, rangi...Read more...
At Palazzo Merulana an exhibition ... on the nose. Featuring works by Magritte, Fabre, Cattelan and many others
From March 25 to May 21, 2023 Palazzo Merulana, in synergy with the Elena and Claudio Cerasi Foundation and CoopCulture, is presenting the exhibition Noses for Art, conceived and curated by Joanna De Vos and Melania Rossi. A selection of over fifty w...Read more...
La Sapienza in Rome is the best university in the world for classical studies
The best university in the world for classical studies and ancient history? La Sapienza in Rome, Caput mundi. This is the supremacy certified by QS World University Rankings by Subject, the ranking elaborated through qualitative parameters of the tea...Read more...
Macerata, GABA.MC Gallery showcases art in the Marche region between the 1970s and early 2000s
When Colors Tell. Art in the Marche between the 1970s and early 2000s is the title of the exhibition curated by Vittoria Coen and M. Letizia Paiato scheduled from March 28 to May 6 at GABA.MC the Academy's gallery. Among the 50th anniversary events, ...Read more...
Florida, teacher forced to resign after showing image of Michelangelo's David
In Florida, and specifically in the capital city of Tallahassee, a teacher at a charter school (i.e., a school funded by both public and private funds) was was forced to resign from her position after some parents complained that she showed images of...Read more...
The Galleria Nazionale delle Marche dedicates an exhibition to the history of the Ducal Palace in Urbino
From April 27 to November 5, 2023, the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche presents the exhibition The Ducal Palace of Urbino. The Fragments and the Whole, curated by Luca Molinari Studio and Luigi Gallo. The exhibition is designed with an approach that ...Read more...
Nomellini, Viani and Levy star in Forte dei Marmi summer exhibition
From June 17 to November 5, 2023, Forte Leopoldo I in Forte dei Marmi hosts the exhibition Accadde in versilia, produced by the Society of Fine Arts with the City of Forte dei Marmi and Fondazione Villa Bertelli. The exhibition aims to highlight the ...Read more...
Charles V in Mantua and a major Rubens exhibition: the 2023 exhibition season of Fondazione Palazzo Te
Mantua: Europe of Cities is the title of Fondazione Palazzo Te's 2023 exhibition season, which, from March 24, 2023 to January 7, 2024, will explore the role of the city of Mantua in the construction of the ideals and values of modern European societ...Read more...
Venice Biennale's Historical Archives of Contemporary Arts acquires Lorenzo Capellini Fund
TheHistorical Archives of Contemporary Arts of the Venice Biennale is acquiring the Lorenzo Capellini Fund, with the aim of preserving and enhancing the archive of the great photographer, who in sixty years of activity, formerly a contributor for Pan...Read more...
Jobs in culture, open positions in Fondazione Prada, Ancona Superintendency, Scala di Milano
As every Friday, the appointment with our column dedicated to those looking for jobs in culture is renewed. Here are vacancies, notices, and open positions that we have gathered from March 17 to 24, 2023. In Bolzano, the Province of Bolzano, which w...Read more...
Caravaggio's Bacchus will be... lent to Vinitaly. Sangiuliano announces it
Two famous works of art history will become wine advocates at the main wine fair, Vinitaly in Verona. This is no joke: Caravaggio 's Bacchus and the Bacchus Child attributed to Guido Reni, both belonging to the Uffizi Galleries, will be displayed amo...Read more...
Vienna, at Leopold Museum 15 works hang crooked: it's a climate initiative
For the past several days, visitors to the Leopold Museum in Vienna have found a surprise in the museum: several works hanging crookedly. The museum had begun posting photos on its social media portraying the works, all views and landscapes, hanging ...Read more...
Turin, Leonardo Mosso's Red Cloud arrives at the Royal Palace, donated to the Royal Museums
Important donation for the Royal Museums of Turin, which, from March 23, 2023, in the Manica Nuova of the Royal Palace, will welcome the installation Nuvola Rossa (1975) by Leonardo Mosso (Turin, 1926 - 2020), a precious donation from the heirs of th...Read more...
Reggio Emilia, European Photography 2023 exhibitions: from Sabine Weiss to Luigi Ghirri
Reggio Emilia is increasingly a City of Photography thanks to Fotografia Europea, the international cultural festival dedicated to contemporary photography that was born in 2006 and is produced and promoted by the Palazzo Magnani Foundation and the M...Read more...
Maxi enlargements of famous paintings from the Pinacoteca di Brera cover the walls of a hospital
At theIstituto Clinico Humanitas, thanks to the Brera in Humanitas project, twenty-three details taken from fifteen masterpieces from the Pinacoteca di Brera come to the hospital's waiting rooms and corridors. Maxi-format enlargements, made from 680m...Read more...
Is artificial intelligence a powerful autonomous creature? At OGR Turin, a group exhibition reflects on the topic
The OGR Turin focuses on the future with a group exhibition in which contemporary culture meets technology: Perfect Behaviors. Life redesigned by the algorithm, curated by Giorgio Olivero. The exhibition is intended to be aninvestigation into changin...Read more...
More than a hundred homes of famous people across Italy will open their doors to visitors
A weekend of open doors to discover the homes that have hosted the "Greats." From Ugo Tognazzi to Leonardo Da Vinci, from Antonio Canova to Salvatore Quasimodo, from Luciano Pavarotti to Giuseppe Verdi, from John Keats to Pier Paolo Pasolini, passing...Read more...
Art as a vehicle for freedom. In Milan, two works by Enrico Baj are exhibited in prison
Two works by Enrico Baj arrive at the Opera Detention Home thanks to the ALMA - Arte Libera Musei Aperti initiative. The objective of theCorte Sconta Cultural Association's project, carried out with the contribution of Fondazione di Comunità M...Read more...
What if Quentin Massys' ugly duchess is actually a man?
It is one of the most famous paintings in the National Gallery in London: it is the so-called Ugly Duchess ("The Ugly Duchess"), a 1513 work by the Flemish artist Quentin Massys (Leuven, 1466 - Antwerp, 1530), and for a long time it was thought it mi...Read more...
A comic strip tells the story and career of Massese artist Gigi Guadagnucci
Saturday, March 25, at 5 p.m., inside the 17th-century Villa La Rinchiostra in Massa, home of the Guadagnucci Museum, will be the presentation of Gigi Guadagnucci Sculptor. La storia a fumetti, a notebook of drawings created by Massa cartoonist Loren...Read more...
Crema Museum showcases the entire Stramezzi Collection with works from the deposits
From April 22 to June 18, the Pinacoteca del Museo Civico di Crema e del Cremasco will inaugurate the second edition of Depositi esposti, a review with which the Crema Museum, aligning itself with what has already been experimented by other museums, ...Read more...
Discovering Perugino's places: thematic itineraries
On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the death of Pietro Vannucci known as Perugino (City of Pieve, c. 1450 - Fontignano, 1523), theArchdiocese of Perugia-City of Pieve has organized, as part of the Perugino in the Sign of Time project, a seri...Read more...
Genoa as seen by a 19th century photographer and a contemporary painter in an exhibition comparing them
From March 11 to May 21, 2023, the Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art in Genoa is hosting the exhibition Endless Genoa. Glimpses of the City between Noack and Bayter, born from the collaboration between the museum itself and the Documentation Cen...Read more...
Royal Palace of Caserta and Campania Region sign agreement for the enhancement of the Royal Park
The Royal Palace of Caserta and the General Directorate for Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies of the Campania Region signed a memorandum of understanding this morning for the protection of monumental trees, valuable plant essences and their ge...Read more...
Bust-portrait of Prospero Farinacci attributed to Bernini donated to Castel SantAngelo Museum
A bust-portrait of Prospero Farinacci, a Roman jurist and intellectual who lived between the 16th and 17th centuries, attributed to Gian Lorenzo Bernini, is being donated to the National Museum of Castel Sant'Angelo. The sculpture left the United Sta...Read more...
Milan, major exhibition on surrealism with masterpieces from Holland at Mudec
On view from March 22 to July 30, 2023 at Mudec - Museo delle Culture in Milan is the exhibition Dalí, Magritte, Man Ray and Surrealism. Masterpieces from the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, which presents more than 180 works including painting...Read more...
Rai Cinema launches free game inspired by The Divine Comedy, to step into Dante's shoes
Ahead of Dantedì, the national day dedicated to Dante Alighieri celebrated on March 25, Rai Cinema presents a multiplatform project dedicated to the Divine Comedy. Dante's universe will be the protagonist of an innovative narrative declined in...Read more...
Italian Biennial of Poetry among the Arts is born. First edition in April
Six cities (Alessandria, Tortona, Piacenza, Cremona, Parma, Bologna) and more than three hundred poets, artists and musicians are involved in the first edition of the Italian Biennial of Poetry among the Arts, which, from April 2023 to January 2024, ...Read more...
Academy of Spain holds first exhibition in Rome dedicated to Joaquín Sorolla
From March 21 to June 11, 2023, the Real Academia de España en Roma welcomes the exhibition Joaquín Sorolla, flashes of light and color, curated by Blanca Pons-Sorolla and María López Fernández. This is the first ex...Read more...
Important acquisition for the Braidense Library: the Rizzardi Collection arrives
Important acquisition for the Braidense National Library in Milan: its holdings are enriched with the arrival of the Rizzardi Collection, donated to the Braidense in November 2021, which includes the complete catalog of works printed by the publishin...Read more...
Hauntology. The spectral nature of painting on display in Todi at the Abbondio Gallery
With the concept of "hauntology " (a corruption of the English terms "haunting" and "ontology"), coined by Jacques Derrida in his 1993 book Spectres of Marx and later taken up by Mark Fisher in his Spectres of My Life. Writings on Depression, Hauntol...Read more...
At Palazzo Braschi, Carlo and Fabio Ingrassia's work that grew out of a reflection by Pistoletto
The Museo di Roma in Palazzo Braschi hosts from March 17 to May 7, 2023 the fourth exhibition of Paesaggio, the section of the Quotidiana exhibition cycle conceived and produced by the Quadriennale, in collaboration with Roma Culture, Sovrintendenza ...Read more...
Naples' National Archaeological Museum launches its own edition of Monopoly
The National Archaeological Museum of Naples is the first Italian museum to have a "collector's" edition of Monopoly, the world's best-loved board game. Only 1,000 copies of the MANN-branded Monopoly have been made, and they are already available at ...Read more...
Florence, Academy Gallery Facebook page hacked. Serious delays from Meta
Unfortunate mishap for the Accademia Gallery in Florence: its Facebook page has in fact been hacked. Since last March 16, unknown individuals who have taken over the museum's official channel have been posting clips of violent films in fraudulent Eng...Read more...
The paint used to daub Palazzo Vecchio? Dangerous to historic stones
In Florence, the cleaning of the outer walls of Palazzo Vecchio, which were daubed with orange paint last Friday by two climate activists who were immediately stopped by two policemen and Mayor Dario Nardella, who was on site for an inspection of the...Read more...
In Conversano, the first major exhibition dedicated to Antonio Ligabue in Puglia
From March 25 to October 8, 2023, the Aragonese Castle of Conversano will host the Antonio Ligabue exhibition, curated by Francesca Villanti, promoted and supported by the Municipality of Conversano City of Art and Museco - Museums in Conversano, wit...Read more...
Mosaic floor of an older house emerges at Stabian baths
Investigations to study the earlier building phases of the large Stabian Baths complex, located on Pompeii's central street, namely Via dell'Abbondanza, have unearthed the mosaic floor of the hall of anolder dwelling, which was obliterated to make wa...Read more...
Naples, an exhibition around Caravaggio's Flagellation at the Royal Palace
The only Caravaggio work in the Capodimonte National Museum in Naples moves a few kilometers and reaches the Royal Palace where, from March 16 to May 9, the exhibition Dialogues around Caravaggio, set up in the Genovese Gallery at the Royal Palace in...Read more...
Art on TV March 20 to 26: Munch, Titian and the Mona Lisa
With the beginning of spring, let's find out the TV programs dedicated to art from March 20 to 26. On Rai 3 continues the airing of Discovering the Golden Bough from Monday to Friday at 3:35 pm. On Rai 5 from Monday to Friday at 8:15 p.m. reruns of...Read more...
MASI in Lugano dedicates an exhibition to Hedi Mertens, an artist who investigates geometric abstraction
From April 2 to October 15, 2023, the Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana presents the exhibition Hedi Mertens. The Logic of Intuition, curated by Francesca Benini and Arianna Quaglio. The exhibition project aims to return to the public the work and...Read more...
Genoa's National Museums celebrate Father's Day with themed opening and guided tour
On Sunday, March 19, 2023, on the occasion of Father's Day, the National Museums of Genoa(Palazzo Reale and Palazzo Spinola) will be exceptionally open from 1:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., with last admission at 6:30 p.m. With a single full ticket of 10 euros ...Read more...
Lediesis return to the Mann in Naples with their Superwomen
From March 22 to May 22, 2023, the Lediesis return to the Mann in Naples with the exhibition SuperNature. On the occasion of the arrival of spring, the museum wants to celebrate Mother Earth in this way through images of goddesses and women, also tak...Read more...
Autograph letter by D'Annunzio returned after more than a decade to Rome's Central Library
Carabinieri from the Antiques Section of the Operational Department of the Cultural Heritage Protection Command have returned a handwritten letter by Gabriele D'Annunzio, stolen more than a decade ago, to the National Central Library in Rome. Returni...Read more...
Prato Textile Museum dedicates an exhibition to kimonos
From April 29 to November 19, 2023, the Prato Textile Museum will host the exhibition Kimono - Reflections of Art between Japan and the West, organized by the Prato Textile Museum, with the collaboration of the Gorizia Museum of Fashion and Applied A...Read more...
Sardinia, reopens after four years the hypogeum of San Salvatore di Sinis
After four years, theHypogeum of San Salvatore di Sinis reopens: in fact, the project for the works to secure and restore the hypogeum and the church of San Salvatore di Sinis has been approved. Theancient village characterized by the small houses fa...Read more...
Getty Museum acquires an important early medieval manuscript and a painting by Annibale Carracci
The J. Paul Getty Museum has announced two important acquisitions: these are the Codex of Irmengarda, a manuscript made for the 11th-century noblewoman Irmengarda of Nellenburg, of the House of Egisheim-Dagsburg in Germany, and a painting by Annibale...Read more...
Thomas Braida's solo exhibition at the Concord National Museum
From March 26 to May 13, 2023, the Museo Nazionale Concordiese in Portogruaro (Venice) will host the exhibition Hỳbris, debris, Pastis, a solo show by Thomas Braida (Gorizia, 1982), one of the most interesting young Italian artists, curated by Eva ...Read more...