The natural phenomenon known in Mexico as “mar de fondo”—characterized by intense wave action that alters the coastal landscape—has brought to light new evidence of ancient civilizations along the coast of the state of Colima. In Playa Tecuanillo, in...
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The MAM – Media Art Museum opens to the public on Friday, October 9, 2026, in Rome, billed as the capital’s first permanent museum entirely dedicated to media art. The new institution is located at Corso d’Italia 37/D, occupies appr...
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To understand what Ferrara was—and, above all, how the city has preserved its artistic heritage over time—it is not enough to look only at the paintings: one must also trace the stories of those who collected them, the institutions that acquired them...
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New traces of Roman Agrigento are emerging from the Valley of the Temples. During excavations conducted by the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa within the Archaeological and Landscape Park of the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, remains of frescoe...
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The Fayum portraits—the famous faces painted on funerary panelsin ancient Egypt—are among the most celebrated images of antiquity, but in Italy they are also among the hardest to see, at least all together, given their rarity and fragility. There are...
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When snow covers a landscape, it seems to take away rather than add: it erases details, softens colors, alters distances, and makes it harder to distinguish what belongs to observation from what arises from perception. It is above all in this uncerta...
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Now 95 years old, one of Germany’s greatest artists, Heinz Mack (Lollar, 1931), continues to explore the relationship between light, color, and form. It is precisely this exploration—developed by the German artist over more than seventy years o...
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The restoration of an archaeological mosaic usually takes place out of sight of visitors, behind the barriers of a construction site or inside a workshop. At the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, however, work on the floors of the Bouleuterion—the ...
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Luigi Russolo returns to his hometown with an exhibition featuring some eighty works and documents, marking the return to Italy—after twenty years—of *La Musica* (1911), one of his best-known paintings. From October 18, 2026, to February 28, 2027, th...
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From October 13, 2026, to January 30, 2027, the Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome presents *On Leaning*, an exhibition of new works by the painter Svenja Deininger, focused on a painterly practice that rejects a predetermined starting point and procee...
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Yet another theft at a French museum: Joseph Forêt’s*Apocalypse*, a monumental artist’s book famous for its cover by Salvador Dalí, based on the text of St. John, was stolen during the night between Sunday, October 4, and Mon...
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From Michelangelo’s *David* to the sculptures of Auguste Rodin and Antoine Bourdelle, and on to the interpretations of Giulio Aristide Sartorio, Leonardo Bistolfi, and Adolfo De Carolis: the Accademia Gallery in Florence is dedicating an exhibi...
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The University of Salento’s 18th excavation campaign inthe ancient Roman city of Aquinum, located within the territory of the present-day municipalities of Castrocielo and Aquino (in the province of Frosinone), has unearthed two archaeological ...
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From Vulci to Villa Giulia. “La via degli Eroi” is the new project connecting the Vulci Archaeological and Naturalistic Park and the National Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia in Rome through a combined ticket available starting October 15, 2026.
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Two paintings attributed to the Master of 1416 will be on display together from October 6, 2026, to March 14, 2027, in the first-floor galleries of the Accademia Gallery in Florence. The Madonna and Child with Saints Peter, Anthony the Abbot, Julian,...
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A gas cylinder prompted the Carabinieri to respond on the morning of Monday, October 5, in Florence, where the object was found beneath the statue of David in Piazzale Michelangelo. TGCOM24 reported the news. The cylinder was spotted around 7:30 a.m....
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From November 20, 2026 , to March 29, 2027, the San Francesco Monumental Complex in Cuneo will host the exhibition *The Age of the Baroque: Bernini, Gentileschi, Rubens*, sponsored by the CRC Foundation and Intesa Sanpaolo. Curated by Maurizia Ciccon...
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A sword over 3,000 years old, still so well-preserved that the edge of the blade remains sharp, has resurfaced from the waters of Lake Mezzano in Tuscia. The artifact, dating to the 13th century B.C., was discovered during the final stages of the res...
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On October 1, the Monza Cathedral Foundation was presented to the community. This philanthropic fund was established on February 26, 2025, within the Monza and Brianza Community Foundation with the goal of supporting the restoration, maintenance, and...
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The future of Milan’s MUDEC is back on the table even before the current concession expires: the bid process launched by the City of Milan to award the museum’s management for the next eight years was in fact unsuccessful— —concluding without a singl...
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A Venice defined by light, matter, and space takes center stage in the art market. It is *Concetto Spaziale, Mezzogiorno in Piazza S. Marco*, one of the most significant works from Lucio Fontana’s famous *Venezia* series, which on October 22 wi...
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In the sea off the coast of Adrasan, on Turkey’s southern coast, thousands of plates and bowls that have lain on the seafloor for about 2,100 years are coming to light. They are part of the cargo of an ancient merchant ship that sank at a depth of be...
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What can painting still convey in an era dominated by the contemporary? This is one of the questions that run through the work of Carlo Maria Mariani (Rome, 1931–New York, 2021), an artist who made art history, memory, and culture the foundation of h...
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A young man intently observes his own reflection in a mirror. A young classmate of his carefully holds up the mirror, while behind them stands the solemn and austere figure of Socrates, wrapped in an imposing gray cloak and distinguished by a wavy, s...
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In mythological tradition, the chimera is a creature composed of parts belonging to different animals: it is, therefore, a hybrid organism in which disparate elements cease to be merely separate fragments and become something new. It is precisely thi...
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