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Tessere d'Arte in Forlì: Fiber Art and enterprise in the Dino Zoli Foundation exhibition

The Dino Zoli Foundation in Forlì presents the exhibition Tessere d'Arte. Interweaving Matter and Creation, curated by Nadia Stefanel, scheduled from April 29 to July 31, 2026. The exhibition focuses on Fiber Art as a field of research in whic...
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Pompeii, artificial intelligence reconstructs for the first time the escape of an eruption victim

The Archaeological Park of Pompeii has employed artificial intelligence tools for the first time to create, in collaboration with theUniversity of Padua-Digital Cultural Heritage Laboratory, a digital reconstruction that is based on data from archaeo...
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Piacenza's Ricci Oddi Gallery is reborn: museum gets renovated again

A new phase opens in the history of Piacenza's Ricci Oddi Gallery of Modern Art. In fact, the Emilian museum will present itself starting tomorrow, Tuesday, April 28, with the result of a complex project of redevelopment and refurbishment of its exhi...
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Giuliano Giuggioli in Livorno: ecology becomes a pictorial metaphor

For the first time in his long career, Tuscan painter Giuliano Giuggioli (Vetulonia, 1951) is exhibiting in Livorno with an exhibition entirely dedicated to the theme ofecology. The exhibition, entitled Eco - logic. Giuliano Giuggioli ecological meta...
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In Lucca, four African women artists investigate identity and rights in "Bread, Roses and Colors" exhibition

The exhibition Bread, Roses and Colors - Il pane, le rose e i colori (Bread, Roses and Colors), curated by Alessandro Romanini, opens on Friday, May 8, 2026, at 7 p.m. at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Lucca. The initiative, promoted by the Fondazi...
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CAINO's "ICONA" exhibition in Perugia investigates the sacred in contemporary times

Opening on April 30, 2026, at 6 p.m., at the Santa Maria della Misericordia Exhibition Hall in Perugia, the exhibition ICONA di CAINO, curated by Beatrice Bortoluzzi, will be on view until May 18. The exhibition project is part of a reflection on the...
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Beatrice Venezi fired from Fenice after her statements about orchestra

Beatrice Venezi is no longer music director of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, and the relationship between the theater and the maestro comes to a clean break. In fact, the Foundation announced today the termination of all future collaboration with t...
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Florence, restoration of Masaccio's Trinity completed after three years

After three years of interventions, the restoration of Masaccio's Trinity, among the most important masterpieces of the early Renaissance, kept in the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, has been concluded. A restoration that represents not ...
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Villa Arconati, a few kilometers from Milan, is one of the film sets of The Devil Wears Prada 2

Villa Arconati, located in the heart of the Groane Park a few kilometers from Milan, was chosen as the film set for the new chapter of The Devil Wears Prada, hosting some of the production's most exclusive scenes. Kept private until the very end, the...
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Trento, Italian art from the 1980s to the present day on display at Palazzo delle Albere

From April 24 to September 6, 2026, Palazzo delle Albere hosts the exhibition Anachronisms and Discronies. Italian Art from the 1980s to Today, curated by Margherita de Pilati and Ivan Quaroni. MART thus returns to occupy the spaces of the historic ...
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Art on TV from April 26 to May 2: Piranesi, Leonardo da Vinci and Gauguin

Rai and Sky Arte offer a particularly rich programming schedule, spanning art, design, and in-depth features dedicated to Italian territories. Programming from April 26 to May 2, 2026. On Rai Storia the programming opens on Sunday, April 26, from 09...
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Venice Biennale, Minister Giuli will attend neither the pre-opening nor the opening ceremony

Minister Alessandro Giuli will not be present in Venice during the pre-opening days of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, nor will he take part in the opening ceremony scheduled for May 9. The decision was officially annou...
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In Germany, at Kunsthaus Apolda, the fashion and nude photographs of Günter Rössler

Through May 3, 2026, Kunsthaus Apolda, Germany, is hosting the exhibition Günter Rössler. Fashion and Nude Photography, curated by Kirsten Schlegel. Among the most significant figures in twentieth-century German photography, Günter R&o...
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In Venice, at the Berengo Foundation, Tony Cragg investigates the qualities of matter

The Berengo Foundation, in the spaces of Ca' Tron in Venice, will present from May 5 to November 22, 2026 the exhibition Ocean of Drops, where the protagonist will be Tony Cragg (Liverpool, 1949), among the main protagonists of contemporary sculpture...
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A large decorated cloth in a 17th-century church: in Cremona, the work of Castelli and Cherstich

A kind of runway , of large canvas inside a seventeenth-century church. It happens in Cremona where, until June 2026, the church of San Carlo hosts Sospeso nel moto con addebito di vuoto, a project signed by Guglielmo Castelli and Fabio Cherstich tha...
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At MAXXI in Rome, the second chapter of the exhibition on Andrea Pazienza

From April 24 to September 27, 2026, MAXXI in Rome hosts Andrea Pazienza. You Don't Always Die, an exhibition curated by Giulia Ferracci and Oscar Glioti that constitutes the second chapter of the exhibition project dedicated to the artist on the 70t...
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In Bologna, more than 300 works tell the story of Banksy's origins and the School of Bristol

From March 27 to August 2, 2026, Palazzo Fava in Bologna hosts Banksy Archive 01 - The School of Bristol (1983-2005), an exhibition that systematically addresses the cultural, urban, and political context in which Banksy's visual language took shape....
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Vezzoli's Metaphysical Nike enters permanent exhibit at Santa Giulia Museum in Brescia

On Thursday, April 23, 2026, in the Viridarium of the Santa Giulia Museum in Brescia, Francesco Vezzoli's Nike Metafisica was installed, a work that becomes a permanent part of the contemporary sculpture park's itinerary. The intervention is part of ...
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Peggy Guggenheim in London: the birth of a collector on display in Venice

From April 25 to October 19, 2026, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice presents the exhibition Peggy Guggenheim in London. Birth of a Collector, the largest exhibition ever mounted in a museum setting dedicated to theLondon experience of the ce...
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Up for auction is the De Oratore illustrated by Bartolomeo Sanvito, a masterpiece of Renaissance miniature painting

A masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance is returning to the international market. Indeed, in May, at Pandolfini 's Milan headquarters, an extraordinary copy of Marcus Tullius Cicero's De Oratore, illuminated and calligraphed by Bartolomeo Sanvito (P...
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Venice Biennale, jury excludes Russia and Israel from awards

The international jury of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale has made it known that it will refrain from considering countries whose leaders are currently charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Co...
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Turkey, two-meter-high statue of Athena discovered in Laodicea's Western Theater

In Turkey, at the archaeological site of Laodicea in the Denizli district, a new discovery in the Western Theater complex has brought attention back to the monumental and decorative phases of stage architecture in Roman Asia Minor. As part of the ong...
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Sougwen Chung in Milan: BODY MACHINE (MERIDIANS) on the ledwall of Palazzo Citterio

From April 23 to July 14, 2026, the large ledwall on the ground floor of Milan's Palazzo Citterio will host BODY MACHINE (MERIDIANS), an installation by Sino-Canadian artist Sougwen Chung (1985). The work is being presented for the first time in Ital...
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A papyrus of the Iliad in a Roman mummy: here's what emerges from discovery in Egypt

A discovery destined to impact studies in papyrology and funerary archaeology comes from the site of al-Bahnasa, Egypt, identified with ancient Oxyrhynchus. The archaeological mission of theUniversity of Barcelona and theInstitute of the Ancient Near...
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Europa Nostra Awards 2026, here are the winners. There are five Italians

Thirty are the winners of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2026, announced by the European Commission and Europa Nostra. The awards, co-funded by the Creative Europe program, represent the largest European award scheme dedicated to...
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