The celebrated German painter Georg Baselitz, among the most influential figures incontemporary European art, died today at the age of 88.Born in 1938 in Deutschbaselitz, then East Germany, as Hans-Georg Kern, he moved in 1956 to East Berlin, where h...
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The International Jury of the 61st. International Art Exhibition, In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh (May 9-Nov. 22, 2026), composed of Solange Farkas (president), Zoe Butt, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Marta Kuzma, Giovanna Zapperi. This has just been announced in...
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A manuscript, datable to the early 9th century, has been discovered at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Rome that contains the oldest known poem in Old English: it is a copy of theCaedmon Hymn dating from between 800 and 830, making it the third ...
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With the arrival of spring, Villa delle Rose, a garden located in Gaeta within the Monte Orlando Regional Park between the ancient and modern city, reopens to the public. The site presents itself as a green area characterized by a collection of palm ...
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Starting May 1, the public will once again be able to admire in the Throne Room of the Royal Palace in Genoa two large canvases by Luca Giordano, one of the main protagonists of seventeenth-century Italian Baroque painting. They are The Struggle betw...
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An important archaeological discovery has emerged during investigations conducted at the Sanctuary of Hercules the Victor in Tivoli, one of the most significant monumental complexes in Roman Italy. As part of a new campaign of studies promoted by the...
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The art market calendar for the week between April and May 2026 promises to be one of the densest and most varied of the spring season.
Auctions in Italy
In Italy, activity is feverish, featuring some of the industry's most prestigious signatures. ...
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The Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the provinces of Salerno and Avellino has initiated urgent checks after reports of a vandalism incident allegedly involvingSalerno's Medieval Aqueduct, popularly known as Devil's Bridges...
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The Ministry of Culture has ordered inspectors to be sent to the headquarters of the Venice Biennale at Ca' Giustinian as part of a series of checks related to the staging of the Russian pavilion planned for the 2026 Art Biennale. As reported by the ...
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Presented today, at the Caserma "La Marmora" in Rome, headquarters of the Carabinieri Operational Department for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (TPC), 337 cultural goods returned from the United States at the end of operations concluded between ...
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A restoration project involving the Fountain of Lions has been launched at the Buonconsiglio Castle in Trento, with work scheduled between April and July 2026. The operation is part of a historical-artistic heritage enhancement initiative supported b...
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From May 13 to June 16, 2026, the Gallery of 10 Corso Como in Milan presents an exhibition project dedicated to Jannis Kounellis (Piraeus, 1936 - Rome, 2017), among the main protagonists ofArte Povera and a central figure intwentieth-century art. The...
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In May and June 2026 the Monumental Rooms of Palazzo Venezia in Rome will be accessible to the public as part of the project Cantiere aperto. The Monumental Rooms of Palazzo Venezia, an initiative that will allow visitors to take a closer look at one...
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At the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Gallery) in Dresden, within the Zwinger complex, the first-ever retrospective exhibition outside Italy dedicated to Antonio Allegri known as il Correggio (Correggio, c. 1489 - 1534), titled Corregg...
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International research, in which theUniversity of Bari Aldo Moro took part, has made it possible to reconstruct the dietary habits and culinary techniques of communities belonging to the Kura-Araxes culture, which lived in the South Caucasus about 5...
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The May 1 holiday season is shaping up to be all about travel. According to Federturismo, about 7 million Italians are ready to leave. This is a positive sign for tourism, already buoyed by a 6.8 percent increase in attendance recorded in the past th...
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A result far beyond expectations marked the sale of the... Beheaded Magdalene by Artemisia Gentileschi (Rome, 1593 - Naples, post 1654). This fragmentary painting, which is missing its head(we had discussed it in a dedicated article), fetched an impr...
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The Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea hosts, from April 29 to September 20, 2026, El glaciar ido(The vanished glacier / The vanished glacier), the first solo exhibition in an Italian museum dedicated to Cecilia Vicuña. Born in Sant...
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To walk around Valencia is to traverse more than two thousand years of urban history, legible in the different architectural styles that coexist in the city. From evidence of Roman times to contemporary architecture, Valencia's urban fabric looks lik...
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A new space dedicated tocontemporary art is appearing in the cultural landscape of the Veneto region. In fact, starting May 9, 2026, Ca' Riviera, an independent project founded by Leonardo Tiezzi and Riccardo Corò, opens with the aim of creati...
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In Palazzolo sull'Oglio (Brescia), the exhibition Legno in Fabula has recently opened. Go to the woods, go!, set up in the historic spaces of Rocha Magna, the town's castle, from April 18 to June 7, 2026. The initiative is one of the central events o...
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The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) has been named as a beneficiary of the TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund 2026, an initiative sponsored by The European Fine Art Foundation together with Bank of America, Lead Partner of TEFAF New York. The joint co...
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Radically redefine the very concept of the exhibition pavilion, moving it from physical space to the domestic dimension. In essence: the best pavilion at the Venice Biennale is your home. This is the proposal of In Home Pavilion, a project by the Luc...
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In Modica (Ragusa), the Teleri della Passione (Canvases of the Passion ) from the Church of the Carmine, an extraordinarily important pictorial cycle dating back to 1795 and recently recovered after more than a century of oblivion, have been restored...
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TheNational Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), an entity of the Secretariat of Culture of the Government of Mexico, has registered a new Mayan-era archaeological site in the municipality of Othón P. Blanco, in the state of Quintana ...
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