From today through February 7, 2027, the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome will host the first major monographic exhibition dedicated to Jacopo da Pontormo (Pontorme, Empoli, 1494 – Florence, 1557) ever staged outside of Florence. The exhibition, sponso...
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In Kayalıpınar, in central Turkey, an archive dating back about 3,400 years provides new insights into the organization of the Hittite state, health and military emergencies, and the religious practices of the court. Excavations conducted in 2026 at ...
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A violent storm struckthe island of Ischia overnight, causing damage to the Church of San Gaetano in Forio and disrupting traffic in several municipalities. A lightning strike hit the dome of the church, causing parts of the plaster to break off and ...
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The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam will undergo renovations beginning in the fall of 2028. The museum and the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science have reached an agreement on the funding needed to carry out the work, following a mediation...
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After being closed to the public for ten years, Patrimonio Nacional is reopening the Museums of Painting and Architecture at the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial in Madrid. The renovation project involved a total investment of 3.1 millio...
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From November 5 to 8, 2026, AMART—the antiques fair now in its eighth edition—returns to the Museo della Permanente in Milan. Organized by the Associazione Antiquari Milanesi and PROMO.TER Confcommercio Milano, this year’s event brings together...
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For Sonia Pallai, director of the WE Montecatini Tourism Foundation, the future of tourism in Montecatini Terme depends on the city’s ability to move beyond nostalgia for its glorious spa heritage and build a new identity, without sacrificing t...
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On Friday, October 30, 2026, at 6:00 p.m., the PAV Parco Arte Vivente in Turin will open the exhibition *Piero Gilardi. “From Art to Life,” an exhibition curated by Marco Scotini, is dedicated to a crucial period in the career of Turin-based artist P...
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One hundred years after its founding, the Friends of Brera are celebrating their history with an exhibition dedicated to the works acquired and donated to the Pinacoteca di Brera over the years, along with a program of events that will continue throu...
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In Venice, Palazzo Grassi is presenting the fifth edition of its film series, curated by Dominique Païni. Titled “Faraway Cinema,” the new screening series will take place from October 14 to December 2, 2026, every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., bringi...
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People under 30 —or, to use a term that’s currently in vogue, Gen Z—are the generation that spent the most on art in the first half of 2026. Not only that: among collectors under 30 surveyed by Art Basel and UBS, one in eight spent over a milli...
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How can everyday life be transformed into a representation that conveys the desires, emotions, and contradictions of existence? This is one of the questions that runs through the work of Giandomenico Tiepolo, the focus of the exhibition *Giandomenico...
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From January 23 to June 13, 2027 , Palazzo Martinengo in Brescia will host *Men in Art: From Titian to Boldini*, an exhibition dedicated to the depiction of the male figure in the history of Italian art from the dawn of the Renaissance to the thresho...
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The thirteen illuminated choir books from the 16th century housed in the library of the Certosa di Pavia underwent a comprehensive process of diagnostic assessment, restoration, and conservation. The project, launched in the second half of 2025, was ...
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La Conocchia, one of Naples’ largest and most significant historic complexes, which has long been in a state of neglect, will not end up in the hands of the private buyer who won it at auction. The Ministry of Culture has, in fact, exercised it...
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Ten years of research and cataloging have culminated at the British Museum, where Italian Renaissance woodcuts are the focus of a major exhibition. The project, sponsored by the Giorgio Cini Foundation’sInstitute of Art History and curated by L...
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There are images we’re used to viewing all at once and which, precisely for that reason, we risk not truly observing. The Sistine Chapel is one of them: an endless array of figures, scenes, painted architectural elements, and details that the eye mus...
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“Inspiration Europe: Artistic Dialogues Between the 19th and 20th Centuries” is launching in Vicenza —a three-year exhibition project sponsored by the City of Vicenza and dedicated to Italy’s cultural and artistic ties with Germany, France, and...
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From October 17 to 27,the former Anglican Church in Alassio (Savona) will host an exhibition featuring Giuseppe Guidi (1881–1931). “The Sign and Alchemy” is a retrospective exhibition dedicated to Giuseppe Guidi (Castel Bolognese, 1881 – ...
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An elegant and provocative artist who challenged the conventions of his time and questioned the very boundaries of art. James McNeill Whistler (Lowell, 1834 – London, 1903) is the focus of “Whistler: Dandy and Disruptor,” an exhibition that the...
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For Mimmo Rotella (Catanzaro, 1918 – Milan, 2006), tearing was never merely a gesture: removing a poster from a wall meant appropriating an existing image, taking it out of its context, and transforming it into something else. In the final deca...
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In Arezzo, the story of St. Francis and his cultural, artistic, and spiritual legacy is enriched by a new chapter. As part of the celebrations marking the 800th anniversary of the saint’s death, the Tuscany Regional Directorate of National Museums of...
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Technology is being integrated into Turkey’s strategies for protecting its archaeological heritage with a new aerial surveillance system installed in the ancient city of Sardis and in the area of the Bin Tepe coastal mounds, in the province of ...
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A small roll of film, a few photos taken in Centuripe, and a wedding photograph from 1979 helped reconstruct the history of the Centuripe pyx—the precious 3rd-century B.C. terracotta vessel thatthe Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam has now returned ...
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Even before the world truly became “global,” people, goods, knowledge, and cultures were already crossing the oceans along trade routes that connected distant continents. It is from this perspective that *Florence Global: The World of Fra...
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