Museums Archaeology Photography
“My boredom kept growing during my visit to the museum. After the audio section, there was a large hall with even more information to read, and it was just too much. That’s when I decided to leave.” These are the words of…
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Policy Bayeux Tapestry British Museum
The Art Bonus will also be available to cultural festivals, private museums, corporate archives, ecclesiastical institutions, and organizations dedicated to the preservation of historic villas and gardens. This is one of the new provisions…
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News 61. International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia Venice Biennale
The early closure of Art Basel Paris has left an unresolved financial issue for participating galleries: who will reimburse exhibitors for the two canceled days of the fair? This is the issue that, in the days following the event’s…
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Modern Art Archaeology Etruscan art Etruscans
An enigmatic figure with a long tail emerges from a surface crisscrossed by two intersecting golden lines. This is the subject of *Fil d’Or*, a painting created in 1953 by Leonora Carrington (Clayton Green, 1917 – Mexico City…
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A portrait of the daughter of Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun ( Paris, 1755–1842), painted during her years of exile in Italy, which has remained in a private collection for over two centuries and is now set to be…
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Blue as the common thread running through twenty centuries of trade, travel, and encounters between civilizations: this is the theme of OLTREMARE, the exhibition that will be on view at the Diocesan Museum of Genoa from November 19, 2026…
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Exhibitions Contemporary art Milan
A painting damaged by the 1966 flood, which was salvaged through a complex restoration process and remained in the museum’s storage for years, is once again on public view. From November 3, 2026, to January 31, 2027, the Galleria…
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Museums Royal Palace of Caserta
The return of Gaetano Previati’s *Via Crucis* to Milan marks one of the highlights of the celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the Carlo Maria Martini Diocesan Museum. In March 2027, the museum will inaugurate a completely renovated…
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Contemporary art Ministry of Culture
Mysterious figures come to life amid the architecture of the Tower of Babel, transforming a static sculpture into a visionary world of apparitions and optical illusions. This is the experience at the heart of *Babele Fantasma*, the work by…
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Exhibitions art and fashion Art and sports
Precious silks, Oriental rugs, tapestries, historical garments, and archival documents reveal the complex network of commercial, artistic, and artisanal relationships forged by Stefano Bardini, the renowned Florentine antiquarian, and his…
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Photography Farnese Palace restoration Restorations Rome
Four days of events and gatherings to inaugurate a new space dedicated to photography: from December 4 to 7, 2026, Turin will celebrate the opening of FIAF House, the new headquarters of the Italian Federation of Photographic Associations…
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The Correr Museum in Venice is beginning the redesign of two first-floor galleries, dedicated to the domestic life of Teodoro Correr and to the history of the Serenissima as a city-state.The project is supported by the Comité…
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Three major international museums of contemporary art—the MoMA in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and M+ in Hong Kong —are joining forces to create a new international alliance among museum institutions. The agreement, announced on…
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Malta looks to the future of tourism with confidence. According to the archipelago’s tourism board, which we met in Rimini during the TTG Travel Experience tourism fair, the outlook for the destination is positive. The trend the…
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Alberto Angela arrived at Lucca Comics & Games 2026 dressed as the Mandalorian, the character from the Star Wars saga. Today, October 31, the science communicator took part in the parade dedicated to the universe created by George…
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Contemporary art Contemporary art
Presented this morning in Turin as part of the 2026 edition of Artissima, the Luca Beatrice Prize is dedicated to the critic and curator who passed away prematurely last year: The first edition of the award, which will be dedicated to…
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Contemporary art Ancient art Blessed Angelicus
Turin’s contemporary art collections are expanding thanks to the acquisition grants awarded at Artissima 2026 and a 300,000-euro fund from the CRT Foundation, which was used to purchase 15 works that will become part of the…
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From Aristide Maillol ’s model to her involvement in the Resistance during World War II, and on to her work as a gallery owner and collector: the Musée Maillol in Paris is dedicating an exhibition to Dina Vierny that traces…
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Archaeology Archaeological Park of Herculaneum Archaeology Herculaneum
On November 5, 2026, the House of the Mosaic Atrium and the Wattle-and-Daub House—two of the most important residences in ancient Herculaneum—will reopen to the public after decades of closure. The presentation will take place at 11 a.m…
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News Contemporary art Mantua Pop Art
The works of sculptor Alma Allen have arrived in Venice to fill the U.S. Pavilion at the Art Biennale, but their return trip could prove more complicated than expected: the organization responsible for the American pavilion, the American…
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Archaeology Jorge Luis Borges Venice
A sanctuary key, a thymiaterion, and two inscriptions in the Messapian language: these are some of the elements that make a tomb unearthed during excavations at the Archaeological Park of the Messapian Walls in Manduria, in the province of…
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Milan is dedicatingthe fall of 2026 to two leading figures in 20th-century art: Salvador Dalí at Palazzo Reale and Henri Matisse at MUDEC. These two major international exhibitions, supported by Enel, explore, respectively, the…
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Artissima 2026 has announced the winners of nine of the twelve awards presented as part of its 33rd edition. Alongside its established awards, this year the Turin fair is introducing two new initiatives: the Seletti Wonder Award, which…
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It will be the largest exhibition ever dedicated to Piero della Francesca: this is how the National Gallery in London announced it, noting that the exhibition will bring together, for the first time in centuries, some of Piero della…
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Exhibitions Campi Flegrei Archaeological Park
A Christ who, after more than two thousand years on the cross, decides to come down and sit at its foot, weary of what he sees happening in the world. An orangutan fleeing a room while dragging a chandelier behind him, a giraffe carrying a…
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