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Pontormo: A massive exhibition featuring over 130 works opens at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome 

Pontormo: A massive exhibition featuring over 130 works opens at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome 

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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Turkey: A 3,400-Year-Old Hittite Archive Discovered—It Chronicles Epidemics and Wars

Turkey: A 3,400-Year-Old Hittite Archive Discovered—It Chronicles Epidemics and Wars

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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Ischia: Lightning Damages the Dome of the Church of San Gaetano; Building Closed

Ischia: Lightning Damages the Dome of the Church of San Gaetano; Building Closed

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 starting in 2028: funding agreement reached

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam will undergo renovations starting in 2028: funding agreement reached

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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Madrid: After Ten Years, the Museums of Painting and Architecture at the Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial Reopen

Madrid: After Ten Years, the Museums of Painting and Architecture at the Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial Reopen

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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AMART 2026: Over 60 international antique galleries in Milan

AMART 2026: Over 60 international antique galleries in Milan

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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“Montecatini Terme Must Once Again Become a Destination”: An Interview with Sonia Pallai

“Montecatini Terme Must Once Again Become a Destination”: An Interview with Sonia Pallai

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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Piero Gilardi, from Art to Social Activism: An Exhibition on His Political Work at the PAV in Turin

Piero Gilardi, from Art to Social Activism: An Exhibition on His Political Work at the PAV in Turin

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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The Friends of Brera Celebrate Their 100th Anniversary: An Exhibition Chronicles Acquisitions and Donations to the Museum

The Friends of Brera Celebrate Their 100th Anniversary: An Exhibition Chronicles Acquisitions and Donations to the Museum

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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Palazzo Grassi is bringing eight films from Africa, the Americas, and Asia to Venice

Palazzo Grassi is bringing eight films from Africa, the Americas, and Asia to Venice

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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Gen Z spends the most on art (but doesn't want to show off their collections)

Gen Z spends the most on art (but doesn't want to show off their collections)

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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Giandomenico Tiepolo, the Genius Beyond His Father: An Exhibition in Vicenza Rediscovers the Painter’s Originality

Giandomenico Tiepolo, the Genius Beyond His Father: An Exhibition in Vicenza Rediscovers the Painter’s Originality

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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Men in Art, from Titian to Boldini: The Depiction of Male Identity in Brescia

Men in Art, from Titian to Boldini: The Depiction of Male Identity in Brescia

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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Certosa di Pavia: 13 illuminated 16th-century choir books have been restored

Certosa di Pavia: 13 illuminated 16th-century choir books have been restored

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 Reopens to the Public: The Ministry of Culture Acquires the Former Pontano Boarding School in Naples

La Conocchia Reopens to the Public: The Ministry of Culture Acquires the Former Pontano Boarding School in Naples

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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Italian Renaissance Woodcuts at the British Museum: The Giorgio Cini Foundation’s Atlas on Display

Italian Renaissance Woodcuts at the British Museum: The Giorgio Cini Foundation’s Atlas on Display

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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The Sistine Chapel Becomes a Sticker Album: The Seventh Artonauti Collection Is Here

The Sistine Chapel Becomes a Sticker Album: The Seventh Artonauti Collection Is Here

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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Vicenza: Italian Art Engages with Europe in a New Trilogy of Exhibitions

Vicenza: Italian Art Engages with Europe in a New Trilogy of Exhibitions

“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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Giuseppe Guidi, the artist beloved by d’Annunzio, on display in Alassio

Giuseppe Guidi, the artist beloved by d’Annunzio, on display in Alassio

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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Whistler: Dandy and Rebel—The First Dutch Retrospective on the Painter at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

Whistler: Dandy and Rebel—The First Dutch Retrospective on the Painter at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

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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Monumental Mimmo Rotella: 25 major works from the 1980s to 2005 on display in Catanzaro

Monumental Mimmo Rotella: 25 major works from the 1980s to 2005 on display in Catanzaro

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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St. Francis in Arezzo: Seven Reliquaries and Margarito’s Ancient Portraits Tell the Story of the Saint

St. Francis in Arezzo: Seven Reliquaries and Margarito’s Ancient Portraits Tell the Story of the Saint

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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In Turkey, drones monitor Sardi and Bin Tepe, UNESCO sites threatened by illegal excavations

In Turkey, drones monitor Sardi and Bin Tepe, UNESCO sites threatened by illegal excavations

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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The Centuripe pyx returns to Sicily: the Allard Pierson Museum returns the ancient vase following new research

The Centuripe pyx returns to Sicily: the Allard Pierson Museum returns the ancient vase following new research

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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Florence and the First Wave of Globalization: Francesco Carletti’s Journey Around the World on Display

Florence and the First Wave of Globalization: Francesco Carletti’s Journey Around the World on Display

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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