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Oxford, Christ Church Picture Gallery closes for major renovation and expansion

Oxford, Christ Church Picture Gallery closes for major renovation and expansion

Oxford's Christ Church, one of the colleges that make up the prestigious University of Oxford, has announced an ambitious project to renovate and expand the Christ Church Picture Gallery, one of England's most important museums, intended to transform...
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Genoa earns 3 Michelin Stars: Strada Nuova Museums among destinations worth the trip

Genoa earns 3 Michelin Stars: Strada Nuova Museums among destinations worth the trip

Genoa strengthens its role on the international cultural and tourism scene with a highly prestigious recognition that marks a new phase in the enhancement of the city's heritage. Indeed, in the year that marks the 20th anniversary of the inclusion of...
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Venice Biennale, despite everything open the Russia Pavilion. Here's what it looks like

Venice Biennale, despite everything open the Russia Pavilion. Here's what it looks like

At the Venice Biennale, after much controversy on the eve of the event, the Pavilion of Russia returns to open, marking Moscow's return to the exhibition for the first time since its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The opening is one of the most controv...
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This is what the Italy 2026 Pavilion looks like: images from "With you with everything" by Chiara Camoni

This is what the Italy 2026 Pavilion looks like: images from "With you with everything" by Chiara Camoni

Presented today at the Italian Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale: Con te con tutto, a project by Chiara Camoni (Piacenza, 1974) curated by Cecilia Canziani. Promoted by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture...
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Art and volunteerism meet in Rome: exhibition at CSV Lazio

Art and volunteerism meet in Rome: exhibition at CSV Lazio

In Rome,contemporary art comes out of traditional circuits and meets the world of social work with The Fifth Season. Art at the Center of Volunteering, an exhibition that will be inaugurated on May 14, 2026 at 6 p.m. at the regional headquarters of C...
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Art Events lights up the Venice Biennale 2026 with a global network of projects

Art Events lights up the Venice Biennale 2026 with a global network of projects

While waiting for the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, entitled In Minor Keys and curated by Koyo Kouoh, the contemporary art system is preparing for a new exhibition cycle of wide international scope. The activity of Art Eve...
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Luca Rossi returns to Biennale as "water messiah" and moves pavilion in house

Luca Rossi returns to Biennale as "water messiah" and moves pavilion in house

Redefining the very concept of the exhibition pavilion, removing it from the centrality of physical space and transferring it to the domestic dimension. It is on this premise that In Home Pavilion, a project by the collective led by Luca Rossi, is ba...
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Christo returns to London: a project from Gagosian that never came to fruition

Christo returns to London: a project from Gagosian that never came to fruition

Gagosian has announced an exhibition dedicated to Christo that, at the gallery's London headquarters, will bring together rare works and a historical project that was never realized, conceived with Jeanne-Claude in 1968. The exhibition, titled Christ...
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Portrait of Francesco Borgia by Francesco Hayez goes up for auction in Cologne

Portrait of Francesco Borgia by Francesco Hayez goes up for auction in Cologne

On May 21 in Cologne, the Lempertz auction house will close its week devoted to ancient art with a sale of paintings and drawings that brings together 250 lots, offering a broad traversal of European art history from the Northern Renaissance to the I...
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Iran renounces participation in Venice Biennale

Iran renounces participation in Venice Biennale

More shingles on the Venice Biennale 2026. Today, just days before the official opening,Iran announced that it will not take part in the 61st International Art Exhibition, scheduled for May 9 to November 22, 2026. The news was released through a stat...
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Working in art and culture: this week's open positions

Working in art and culture: this week's open positions

Our monitoring of news in the arts and cultural heritage sector continues, with a summary of calls for applications, public selections and professional proposals published during the week of April 28-May 4, 2026. In Milan, the company Moncler is loo...
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Villa d'Este, Tiburtina Hall reborn in 3D: simulated Renaissance light

Villa d'Este, Tiburtina Hall reborn in 3D: simulated Renaissance light

Rediscovering a historical space according to the original perceptual modes related to the light and environmental conditions of the Renaissance. This is the approach behind the 3D viewer dedicated to the virtual restitution of the First Tiburtine Ha...
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Luca Pozzi brings to Verona a dragon inspired by Dragon Ball and quantum gravity

Luca Pozzi brings to Verona a dragon inspired by Dragon Ball and quantum gravity

From May 4 to 17, the Verona Chapter Library will host Luca Pozzi 's work Arkanian Shenron (2020) in the Monumental Hall, a multi-platform installation that is part of an exhibition itinerary dedicated to the interweaving of contemporary artistic lan...
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Federica Torrenti wins the Luigi Ghirri Award with "The Fortress"

Federica Torrenti wins the Luigi Ghirri Award with "The Fortress"

Federica Torrenti is the winner of the 13th edition of Giovane Fotografia Italiana | Premio Luigi Ghirri. The Bolognese artist, born in 1999, was awarded by the jury composed of Arianna Catania, Adele Ghirri, Stefano Graziani, Damiano Gullì an...
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CAMERA presents summer exhibitions 2026: Gruyaert and Jeker open new season

CAMERA presents summer exhibitions 2026: Gruyaert and Jeker open new season

In Turin, CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia launches its new exhibition course with two exhibitions marking the beginning of François Hébel's artistic direction. The summer program, on the calendar from June 18 to October 4, 20...
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The Russian Pavilion at the Biennale will remain closed after the opening. Moscow had not been invited

The Russian Pavilion at the Biennale will remain closed after the opening. Moscow had not been invited

Seven pages of a report arrived on the table of Palazzo Chigi at the center of the case involving the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale and the management of compliance with the European sanctions regime. The document, as reported by L'Espresso...
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Three meetings at the Omero Museum on Picasso and Guernica to educate for peace

Three meetings at the Omero Museum on Picasso and Guernica to educate for peace

The Omero State Tactile Museum in Ancona is hosting the series of meetings Educating for Peace with Art - Picasso and Guernica, an initiative that interweaves historical reflection, artistic analysis and civic insight on the occasion of the 90th anni...
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Finestre sull'Arte moves editorial staff to Venice for 61st Biennale

Finestre sull'Arte moves editorial staff to Venice for 61st Biennale

On the occasion of the 61st Venice Biennale, Finestre sull'Arte will temporarily relocate its editorial staff to Venice from May 5 to 9, 2026, during the days of the event preview. The operational headquarters will be Palazzo Smith - Casa Art Events,...
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Caravaggio and his models: a survey of sources and reconstructions of female figures

Caravaggio and his models: a survey of sources and reconstructions of female figures

The meeting Beyond the Canvas will be held on May 5 in the Sala di Liegro of Palazzo Valentini in Rome. Caravaggio's Roman Models, an appointment dedicated to the analysis of one of the most discussed aspects of the production of Michelangelo Merisi ...
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License to credit, archaeologists: you risk untrue statements to work

License to credit, archaeologists: you risk untrue statements to work

TheNational Association of Archaeologists (ANA) is once again intervening on the regulation of the credit license, the tool introduced on Oct. 1, 2024, with the aim of raising safety levels at construction sites and reducing the number of occupationa...
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At Florence's Cathedral of the Image, the immersive journey into Dante's Inferno

At Florence's Cathedral of the Image, the immersive journey into Dante's Inferno

Starting May 15, 2026, the Cathedral of the Image in Florence will host INFERNO - Immersive Experience in the Divine Comedy, an immersive exhibition inspired by Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. The experience will take the audience on a journey into ...
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Art on TV May 3-9: Warhol, Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli

Art on TV May 3-9: Warhol, Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli

Rai and Sky Arte present a wide-ranging programming schedule that spans art, design and in-depth features dedicated to Italian territories. Below is the schedule from May 3 to 9. On Rai Storia, Sunday, May 3 from 09:50 to 10:40 a.m. airs Leonardo da...
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Equatorial Guinea debuts at the Venice Biennale with Paraguayan artist Ingrid Seall and the theme of undergrowth

Equatorial Guinea debuts at the Venice Biennale with Paraguayan artist Ingrid Seall and the theme of undergrowth

From May 9 to Nov. 22, 2026, Palazzo Donà dalle Rose in Venice will host, within the Pavilion of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, present for the first time in history in the official programming of the Venice Biennale, Paraguayan artist Ing...
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Venice, at Palazzo Franchetti the contemporary glass of Bertil Vallien and Martin Janecký

Venice, at Palazzo Franchetti the contemporary glass of Bertil Vallien and Martin Janecký

On the occasion of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Palazzo Franchetti is hosting from May 5 to November 22, 2026, two solo exhibitions dedicated to Bertil Vallien and Martin Janecký, major figures in the internati...
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Como dedicates exhibition to Turner: Lake and Italian landscape in Tate's works

Como dedicates exhibition to Turner: Lake and Italian landscape in Tate's works

From May 29 to Sept. 27, 2026, the city of Como will host an exhibition project dedicated to William Turner (1775-1851), a central figure of English Romanticism, with a path spread between Palazzo del Broletto and the Pinacoteca civica. The initiativ...
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