A digital artwork by Refik Anadol (Istanbul, 1985) that captures the emotional essence of Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi 's (Rosario, 1987) most significant goal was sold at auction by Christie' s for $1.87 million (just under 1.6 million euros...
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A medieval manuscript from the prestigious monastic library of Mont Saint-Michel, one of the most important of its time in France, was recently rediscovered after more than two hundred years of absence. The return to the French national collections r...
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Important archaeological discovery in Brno, Czech Republic, where a fragment of armor from 3,200 years ago, the era in which the Trojan War is conventionally placed, has been found. The fragment was hidden in the ground for more than 3,000 years, and...
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In France, in the heart ofOccitania, along the Route de Lespignan, one of the most ambitious historical reconstruction projects of experimental archaeology in France will take shape in the city of Béziers, a town of 80,000 inhabitants located ...
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Umbria officially launches its path to the 100th anniversary celebrations of the birth of Dario Fo (Sangiano, 1926 - Milan, 2016), a leading figure in contemporary theater and Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997. The multi-layered program, intended fo...
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As summer gets into full swing, the auction world is preparing for a period of transition. Analyzing the calendars for the week of July 24-30, 2025, a varied picture emerges, with the big international maisons holding court while the Italian realitie...
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A new permanent intervention has been created for the Villa Carlotta Botanical Museum and Garden in Tremezzina, on Lake Como: it is To the women who are not allowed to fulfill their dreams! / To all those women who are not allowed to fulfill their dr...
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Johnny Depp announced last July 10, via a post on his official Instagram profile, a special screening of the film Modigliani - Three Days on the Wing of Madness in the United Kingdom. The news was accompanied by photographs documenting a visit to Lon...
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From Sept. 20, 2025 to Jan. 11, 2026, the halls of Palazzo Reale in Milan will host the exhibition Leonora Carrington, a retrospective (the first in Italy) featuring more than 60 works that reconstructs the life and career of British surrealist Leono...
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The Seceda area, an alpine pasture located above Ortisei in Val Gardena (Bolzano province) in the Dolomites, is once again the focus of public attention due to increasing tourist pressure and some recent infrastructure choices. In the last few hours...
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Ozzy Osbourne (Birmingham, 1948 - 2025), the historic frontman of Black Sabbath who passed away yesterday, ended his career with one last concert while attracting the attention of the public and press a few days later with an unusual charitable art p...
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Work has begun in Florence to update and expand the monitoring system of Brunelleschi's Dome, with the aim of ensuring an ever greater understanding of the monument's structural behavior. The intervention involves the implementation of new technologi...
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Legendary singer Ozzy Osbourne, one of the most iconic voices of hard rock and heavy metal and the historic leader of the British band Black Sabbath, passed away today at the age of 76. Breaking the news was the family in a note: "With sadness, more ...
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The United States has formally announced its intention to withdraw fromUNESCO, the United Nations agency dedicated to education, science and culture. The organization's director-general, Audrey Azoulay, received the official communication from Washin...
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A few days after the closing of the Caravaggio 2025 exhibition set up at Palazzo Barberini, Rome, the capital is once again wondering about one of the mysteries of Italian art history: the theft of the Nativity with Saints Lawrence and Francis, paint...
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Work has officially begun in Turin on the restoration of the main facade of the Church of the Great Mother of God, one of the landmarks of the Piedmontese capital. The intervention will be entirely sponsored by ONE srl, a Milan-based company active i...
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The scorching heat sweeping across Italy is not sparing the capital. In Rome, where temperatures continue to touch or exceed 40 degrees, the wave of mugginess has led to increasingly frequent scenes of citizens and tourists seeking refreshment in the...
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From November 21, 2025 to May 4, 2026, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw will open its doors to The Woman Question: 1550-2025, an exhibition curated by art historian and curator Alison M. Gingeras. Divided into eight sections, the exhibition aims to...
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From July 8 to Nov. 30, 2025, the city of Agrigento, the Italian Capital of Culture, will host at Villa Aurea the exhibition Treasures of Art from Italy's National Museums, an exhibition project designed to enhance the richness and dissemination of t...
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An exhibition exploring the boundary between ornament and design is being held in Como at the recently opened Diaz14 gallery on Via Diaz, proposing jewelry as a contemporary art form. The exhibition, open to the public until September 30, brings toge...
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More than fifty years after its theft, the Madonna and Child by Antonio Solario (Chieti or Venice, c. 1465 - Naples, 1530), which had been stolen on the night of August 24-25, 1973, from the halls of the museum in the Dolomite capital along with seve...
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More than one hundred new Tier II executives appointed at the Ministry of Culture: following the announcement in recent days by Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli, the AgenziaCULT news agency has previewed the names and locations assigned to 128 new M...
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From Oct. 3, 2026 to Jan. 31, 2027, the National Gallery in London will host a major exhibition devoted to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, which aims to be the largest in the United Kingdom devoted to the French Impressionist in the past two decades.
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The extensive program of interventions that is affecting the entire Royal Museums of Turin complex continues, with worksites active on several fronts, from the Royal Palace to the Sabauda Gallery, from the Library to the Armory, from the Royal Garden...
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The construction of the T2 section of the Rome Metro Line C, which will connect Piazza Venezia to Viale Mazzini by crossing part of the capital's historic center, opens a new chapter in the complex relationship between contemporary infrastructure and...
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