The Directorate General for Museums of the Ministry of Culture has announced the outcome of the international public selection process for the appointment as director of fourteen Italian museums and cultural institutes. This is a major step in the go...
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Spain's cultural heritage is being enriched thanks to a nobleman paying inheritance tax in works of art, an operation permitted by the Spanish tax authorities. It happens in the Canary Islands, where the family of Count de la Vega Grande de Guadalupe...
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Luca Rossi is the only artist under 50 to enter with his own work in the new exhibition itinerary ofOsteria Francescana, the restaurant led by Massimo Bottura and internationally recognized as one of the symbolic places of contemporary gastronomic cu...
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The art and collectibles market is gearing up for a whirlwind week with a calendar that, between Feb. 19 and Feb. 25, 2026, ranges from precious vintage silverware to avant-garde design and pop culture memorabilia. Italian auction houses open the per...
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On the night of Feb. 17-18, a break-in occurred at the Basilica of the Blessed Virgin of St. Luke in Bologna. According to information from theArchdiocese, unknown persons forced the night closure of the Holy Image and broke the protective glass of t...
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The National Gallery in London has announced the launch of a plan to cut staff and reduce programs, following a projected deficit of 8.2 million pounds (about 9.44 million euros) in the 2026/27 budget. The decision, as Artnet reports, follows the ado...
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Starting Feb. 18, 2026, the Louvre Museum will expand its visitor offerings with an augmented reality project developed in conjunction withSnap Inc.'s Paris-based AR Studio. The initiative, titled The Incredible Unknowns of the Louvre, introduces afr...
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Two hundred years after the death of Carl Maria von Weber (Eutin, 1786-London, 1826), one of the greatest German composers of the 19th century, Dresden is building an entire year of cultural programming around the figure of the composer who contribut...
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It will be the Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice, to host from March 28 to November 22, 2026 The-exchange-value-of-language-has-fallen-to-zero ("The exchange-value-of-language-has-fallen-to-zero"), an exhibition by Joseph Kosuth curated by Mario Codognato a...
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Museo Galileo and the Museo Nazionale Romano announced the signing of a collaboration protocol on Feb. 13, 2026, valid for three years with the possibility of renewal. The agreement is in the spirit of building a national museum system and aims to st...
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We probably won't see him competing against Franjo von Allmen to battle it out on the steep slopes of the Streif in Kitzbühel or the devastating curves of the Stelvio in Bormio, nor does it appear that he has been summoned along with Franzoni, P...
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Registration is now open for the third edition of d:cult, the Training Course in Scientific Dissemination of Cultural Heritage promoted by the IANUA School of the University of Genoa. The course, aimed at young graduates under 35 from all over Italy,...
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Following the vast fire that broke out at dawn in Naples' Chiaia district, which enveloped the Sannazaro Theater causing the dome to collapse and a dense column of smoke, the first images of the building's interior are now emerging. The blaze, which ...
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Serious damage in Rome to theElephantine that supports theMinerva obelisk, located in the center of Piazza della Minerva, near the Pantheon. The pachyderm's left tusk was in fact found broken at the foot of the monument. The episode dates back to Mon...
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Henrike Naumann, the artist who, together with Vietnamese artist Sung Tieu, is representing Germany at the Venice Art Biennale 2026, curated by Kathleen Reinhardt, passed away at just 41 years old following a cancer diagnosis that came too late.
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Poland has announced the artists who will represent the country at the 61st International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, scheduled for 2026. The Polish Pavilion will host Liquid Tongues, a project signed by Bogna Burska and Daniel Kotowski...
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From March 3 to June 7, 2026, theIstituto Centrale per la Grafica in Rome presents the exhibition Maarten van Heemskerck and the Fascination of Rome: Visual Paths of the Eternal City, curated by Tatjana Bartsch, Rita Bernini and Giorgio Marini, with ...
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Landing at the Ministry of Culture is the issue concerning the use of the image of Leonardo da Vinci 'sVitruvian Man within a commercial dedicated to the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, currently broadcast by Rai with daily programming and repeat...
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The television theme song that accompanies daily live broadcasts of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games has ended up at the center of a controversy involving the relationship between philological fidelity of the artwork and the need for globa...
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Florence celebrates Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, theElectress Palatina, with a day of initiatives sponsored by the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence and the Bargello Museums. The event is set for Wednesday, Feb. 18, at the Medici Chapel Museum, whe...
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Discovery at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence, where a recent investigation has unearthed a volume of extraordinary interest to the history of science: a printed copy of Claudius Ptolemy'sAlmagest, published in Basel in 1551, containing ...
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Coming to Turin 's Palazzo Madama from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will be Johannes Vermeer's Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, starring from March 5 to June 29, 2026 in a new project entitled Encounter with the Masterpiece. The initiative inaugurates...
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Latest news from the world of art and culture, with a selection of calls and professional opportunities published between February 10 and 16, 2026.
In Turin, Fondazione Torino Musei has launched an expression of interest for the position of Director...
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A serious fire broke out at dawn today in the Chiaia neighborhood of Naples, involving the building housing the Sannazaro Theater on Via Chiaia. The particularly high flames were visible even from a great distance for several hours, while a dense col...
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Vittorio Sgarbi was acquitted by the Court of Reggio Emilia, in abbreviated form, of thecharge of money laundering related to the affair of Rutilio Manetti 's painting The Capture of St. Peter, owned by the Cavallini Sgarbi Foundation, which was exhi...
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