Contemporary art Photography Ravenna
In 1014, a papal bull issued by Pope Benedict VIII recorded the existence of a small religious community on a hill in the Langhe: the cellam Sancti Petri. This is the first documented mention of the Monastery of San Pietro in Monforte…
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Museums Archaeology Brescia Lombardy
Making museums accessible means not only allowing everyone to visit them, but also enabling every person to understand their collections, artifacts, and traditions. This is the goal of the initiative involving three Italian institutions as…
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Exhibitions Auctions of the week
The work of Agostino Bonalumi (Vimercate, 1935 – Desio, 2013) will be the focus of the exhibition *Agostino Bonalumi. Certain Streets in Manhattan, scheduled at the Mazzoleni Gallery in Milan from November 11, 2026, to February 6…
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Accra, Ghana. A digital archive that began on Instagram to collect images of traditional Ghanaian culture has evolved into a cultural center open to the city. This is the story of Si Hene, a project founded in 2020by Ghanaian artist Rita…
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Exhibitions Design Milan Triennale Triennale Milan
From November 6, 2026, to March 7, 2027, the Gallerie d'Italia in Naples will host “Angelica and Élisabeth: The Age of Women Painters,” an exhibition dedicated to Angelica Kauffmann (Chur, 1741 – Rome, 1807) and…
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News Modern Art Twentieth Century
How can European cathedrals incorporate new works of art without compromising their historical and architectural identity? And what responsibilities come with commissioning a contemporary work intended to become part of a centuries-old…
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Two paintings by Paul Bril (Antwerp, 1554 – Rome, 1626) are once again on view at the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan following restoration work. The works are *Landscape with Hermits* and *Landscape with Shepherds and Pilgrims*, both…
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Modern Art Ducal Palace of Genoa Museums
Avant-garde art finds a home in the Milan subway. In the spring of 2027, the Museum of Avant-garde (MA-g) will open its permanent home inside the Marche station on the M5 line, transforminga currently unused area into a new cultural space…
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Museums Contemporary art Rivoli Castle
To visit the Library of the Certosa di San Lorenzo in Padula (Salerno), visitors must enter in their socks. This is the unique feature of the new visiting procedures introduced to protect one of the most precious spaces in the monastic…
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Museums Archaeology Saudi Arabia
Cecilie Hollberg will be the new director of Palazzo Madama – Turin’s Civic Museum of Ancient Art. The Board of Directors of the Fondazione Torino Musei unanimously approved her appointment, granting her a four-year term…
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New evidenceof ancient Caere is emerging from the Etruscan necropolis at Monte Abatone, in Cerveteri (Rome), where an archaeological survey and stabilization project has led to the rediscovery of several burial chambers and the recovery of…
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Contemporary art Brera Picture Gallery Milan
Who deserves to be represented by a monument in contemporary public space? This is the question at the heart of *De viris et mulieribus illustribus* — a production and training residency for new skills in contemporary sculpture—a project…
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Exhibitions Ancient art Five hundred Painting restoration Venice
Usually, to understand a distant era, we dig: we unearth fragments and try to reconstruct what has been lost. Federica Giulianini (Ravenna, 1990) says she wants to do the opposite. “The exhibition plays on this paradox,&rdquo…
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Exhibitions Bologna Painting Raphael Sanzio
Take a ring, cut it, twist one of the two ends, and close it again. The result is a ribbon that no longer has an inside or an outside—a continuous surface that can be traversed without ever encountering an edge. Max Bill (Winterthur, 1908…
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We are accustomed to thinking of biennials as major contemporary art exhibitions, but the one currently being organized for Naples would instead have a different focus: cultural heritage, understood in both its tangible and intangible…
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News MAXXI MAXXI Foundation Museums
Director Tinto Brass has passed away in Rome at the age of 93. He was born Giovanni Brass in Milan on March 26, 1933, and owes his unusual stage name to a nickname he had been given by his family. As a boy, he spent his time drawing, and…
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Exhibitions Antiques BIAF 2026 Florence
From the gradual depletion of water resources to collective responsibility for water conservation: this is the central theme of *L’ultima goccia* (The Last Drop), Sandro Gorra’s exhibition scheduled from November 25, 2026, to…
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Exhibitions Twentieth Century Art
Twelve photographs document the rooms of the Arcangeli family’s last home in Bologna, revealing traces of a domestic and intellectual history through the marks left on the walls by furniture, books, and works of art. This is the “Casa…
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On November 4, 1966, the Arno River flooded Florence, causing extensive damage to the city’s historical and artistic heritage. Sixty years after that event, the relationship between the Tuscan capital and its river takes center stage…
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Exhibitions Photo exhibition Photography
In Milan, from November 11 to December 19, 2026, the Doris Ghetta Gallery presents *Qui il sentiero si perde* (Here the Path Disappears), a solo exhibition by Alessandro Artini (Tione di Trento, 2000), at its gallery space. The exhibition…
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Exhibitions Florence International Antiques Biennale
What does it mean to design a museum from a feminist perspective? The question isn’t just about which female artists to hang on the walls, but how spaces change, the relationship between the viewer and what is being viewed, and the…
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The Antonino Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum in Palermo has completed its renovation project with the reopening to the public of the first and second floors, which underwent restoration, functional rehabilitation, and a redesign of…
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Exhibitions Museums Royal Palace of Caserta
The fragments of the “Olla di Cerere” do not come from a single vessel, but from at least two different jars, all made using the same technique. This is one of the findings to emerge from an interdisciplinary research project that…
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Market Contemporary art New technologies of art
After setting a record in London with the sale of her extraordinary collection of Surrealist art and design, Pauline Karpidas (Manchester, 1943) returns to the spotlight at Sotheby’s with another chapter in her collecting story: a…
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Contemporary art Louvre Sculpture Six hundred Spain
In a notebook belonging to Édouard Manet (Paris, 1832–1883), a name appears: Laure. It is the name of the woman the painter portrayed between 1862 and 1863—the same woman who,in *Olympia*(now at the Musée d’Orsay…
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