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Cingoli wins Borgo dei Borghi 2026: triumph for the "Balcony of Marche"

Cingoli wins Borgo dei Borghi 2026: triumph for the "Balcony of Marche"

It is Cingoli that has won the title of Borgo dei Borghi for 2026, an award given annually as part of the TV program Il Borgo dei Borghi, broadcast on Rai 3, which effectively confers the palm as Italy's most beautiful village. The proclamation of th...
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An exhibition at MAXXI in Rome investigates the ironic component that runs through Italian culture

An exhibition at MAXXI in Rome investigates the ironic component that runs through Italian culture

MAXXI in Rome hosts, from April 2 to September 20, 2026, the exhibition Tragicomica. Perspectives on Italian Art from the Second Twentieth Century to the Present, curated by Andrea Bellini and Francesco Stocchi, offering a broad and multidisciplinary...
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Easter free museum and Easter Monday special openings

Easter free museum and Easter Monday special openings

On Easter and Easter Monday, state-run museums, galleries, archaeological areas and parks, villas, gardens, abbeys and monumental complexes will remain regularly open to the public, allowing broad accessibility to cultural venues throughout Italy. On...
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Art on TV April 5-11: Piero della Francesca, Caravaggio and Giotto

Art on TV April 5-11: Piero della Francesca, Caravaggio and Giotto

Rai and Sky Arte dedicate the week to art, design and historical curiosities. Here is the programming from April 5 to 11. On Rai Storia the programming for the next few days devotes ample space to history and art, including historical insights and s...
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At Gallerie d'Italia in Naples, Alexi Worth's works dialogue with Attic and Magna Graecia ceramics

At Gallerie d'Italia in Naples, Alexi Worth's works dialogue with Attic and Magna Graecia ceramics

The Gallerie d'Italia in Naples is hosting, from April 3 to July 5, 2026, the exhibition Vortici. Alexi Worth in Dialogue with Ceramics, curated by Silvia Gaspardo Moro and Richard Neer. The project proposes an unprecedented comparison between Attic ...
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Theft at Magnani-Rocca, appeal to the public: "Come defend beauty"

Theft at Magnani-Rocca, appeal to the public: "Come defend beauty"

After the theft from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation in Mamiamo di Traversetolo, an affair that has hit Italian cultural heritage hard, the Foundation itself is launching a collective appeal to react through participation and sharing of beauty. After t...
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The treasure in the mud: the bronzes of San Casciano, history of discovery

The treasure in the mud: the bronzes of San Casciano, history of discovery

When the hot water of Tuscany 's hot springs meets clayey mud, sometimes history stops and reveals millennia-old secrets that resurface intact, defying time. It happened in San Casciano dei Bagni, in the province of Siena, where, a few meters from th...
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Another Antonello da Messina rediscovered: rare 15th-century painting at auction

Another Antonello da Messina rediscovered: rare 15th-century painting at auction

Another brings Antonello da Messina (Messina, c. 1430 - 1479), a pivotal figure of the Italian Renaissance, back into the spotlight, following the recent return of his Ecce Homo to the market and the subsequent purchase of the panel by the Italian st...
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A metaphysical cabin on the sea. Luca Bertolo's talk for Hypermaremma.

A metaphysical cabin on the sea. Luca Bertolo's talk for Hypermaremma.

The eighth edition of Hypermaremma kicks off on Saturday, April 4, 2026, inaugurating the new season with the project Observatory M1 by Luca Bertolo (Milan, 1968). The appointment is set for 11:30 a.m. at La Torba Beach (also known as "Playa La Torba...
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Vatican Pinacoteca, Barberini tapestries on display for the 400th anniversary of the Dedication of St. Peter's Basilica

Vatican Pinacoteca, Barberini tapestries on display for the 400th anniversary of the Dedication of St. Peter's Basilica

Four hundred years after the Dedication of St. Peter's Basilica on November 18, 1626, the exhibition The Barberini Tapestry. The Resurrection and Dedication of the Vatican Basilica, which can be visited from March 30, 2026 at the Vatican Pinacoteca a...
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Venice, works by contemporary American artists Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince at the Fondazione Prada

Venice, works by contemporary American artists Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince at the Fondazione Prada

Fondazione Prada, at its Venetian venue Ca' Corner della Regina, presents the exhibition Helter Skelter: Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince, curated by Nancy Spector, from May 9 to November 23, 2026. The exhibition brings into dialogue, for the first tim...
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At Unipol Tower in Milan, Alberto Burri in dialogue with five creations of contemporary Japanese fashion

At Unipol Tower in Milan, Alberto Burri in dialogue with five creations of contemporary Japanese fashion

From April 16 to May 5, 2026, CUBO Enterprise Museum of Unipol Group presents at Unipol Tower in Milan the exhibition project Abitare il Nero. From Alberto Burri to the Fashion Designers of the Japanese School. At the center of the exhibition is Nero...
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Aromatic substances from Africa and Asia also in Pompeii's smoke burners: a study

Aromatic substances from Africa and Asia also in Pompeii's smoke burners: a study

In Pompeii, not only local plants were used on domestic altars, but also aromatic substances from Africa and Asia. This is revealed by scientific analyses conducted by an international team of scholars, who investigated the materials burned in Roman ...
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Somalia participates in the Venice Biennale for the first time, with a Pavilion on poetry

Somalia participates in the Venice Biennale for the first time, with a Pavilion on poetry

The Federal Republic of Somalia will participate in the Venice Biennale for the first time with its first National Pavilion, which will be on view from May 9 to Nov. 22, 2026 at Palazzo Caboto. The exhibition will bring together works by Ayan Farah, ...
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One hundred works from the Della Ragione Collection, from Morandi to Vedova, in Castelfiorentino, Florence.

One hundred works from the Della Ragione Collection, from Morandi to Vedova, in Castelfiorentino, Florence.

CAMBIO Cultural Center of Castelfiorentino (Florence) in collaboration with Museo Novecento, presents from April 3 to September 20, 2026 the exhibition Cento opere dalla Raccolta Alberto Della Ragione. From Morandi to Vedova, curated by Sergio Risali...
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Ali Cherri, Silver Lion in Venice, denounces Israel for bombing in Beirut in which parents died

Ali Cherri, Silver Lion in Venice, denounces Israel for bombing in Beirut in which parents died

On April 2, Lebanese artist Ali Cherri (Silver Lion in Venice at the 2022 Biennale), together with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), filed a war crimes complaint with the crimes against humanity section of the Paris judicial court...
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Naked and lying on the beach at Venice Lido: they thought he was a corpse, he was an artist

Naked and lying on the beach at Venice Lido: they thought he was a corpse, he was an artist

It gained some resonance last March 28, an unusual incident that occurred on the Venice Lido: some passersby swam by a man, naked, white, lying on the beach and inert. Thinking of a dead body, they alerted law enforcement and medical aid, but the man...
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Pisa, the Church of Santa Maria della Spina will be fully restored: work has already begun

Pisa, the Church of Santa Maria della Spina will be fully restored: work has already begun

The restoration of the church of Santa Maria della Spina, on the Lungarno Gambacorti, was launched in recent days by the City of Pisa. The intervention, which will affect both the interior and exterior spaces of the building, is aimed at the protecti...
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Le Havre, the Manhattan on the Normandy coast: art, architecture, and the Monet centennial

Le Havre, the Manhattan on the Normandy coast: art, architecture, and the Monet centennial

Long associated primarily with its function as a commercial and industrial port, Le Havre has experienced a profound reinterpretation of its urban and cultural identity in recent decades. Located on the coast of Normandy, the city, called "the Manhat...
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Hackers at the Uffizi? Courier speaks of stolen data, museum denies

Hackers at the Uffizi? Courier speaks of stolen data, museum denies

An alleged hacker attack on the computer systems of the Uffizi Galleries and its possible consequences for the security of the museum complex are at the center of a divergence between what Corriere della Sera reported in an article published this mor...
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Gianmarco Mazzi swears in at Quirinale: he is the new minister of tourism

Gianmarco Mazzi swears in at Quirinale: he is the new minister of tourism

Gianmarco Mazzi is sworn in this morning at the Quirinale as the new Minister of Tourism, officially taking office in the government led by Giorgia Meloni. The ceremony is being held in the presence of the Head of State, Sergio Mattarella, who receiv...
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Golden helmet of Coțofenești and two bracelets stolen from Drents Museum in January 2025 recovered

Golden helmet of Coțofenești and two bracelets stolen from Drents Museum in January 2025 recovered

Coțofenești's goldhelmet and two of the three bracelets stolen from the Drents Museum in Assen, Netherlands, in January 2025 have been found and will return to Romania. This was announced by the director of the Drents Museum, Robert van Langh, in a ...
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Vietnam debuts at Venice Biennale with its own pavilion: here's what it brings

Vietnam debuts at Venice Biennale with its own pavilion: here's what it brings

For the first time in its history, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is officially participating in the Venice Art Biennale: The debut takes place as part of the 61st. International Art Exhibition, scheduled to be held in Venice from May 9 to Nov. 22...
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Two Monets never seen in a century at auction in Paris: estimates up to 8 million euros

Two Monets never seen in a century at auction in Paris: estimates up to 8 million euros

Two paintings by Claude Monet that have remained in private collections for more than a century will be auctioned at Sotheby 's in Paris on April 16 as part of the Art Moderne et Contemporain Evening Auction. The works,Vétheuil , effet du mati...
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Greece, discoveries between Kasos and Karpathos: five Byzantine wrecks and anchors identified

Greece, discoveries between Kasos and Karpathos: five Byzantine wrecks and anchors identified

A series of wrecks, commercial amphorae, Byzantine anchors and remnants of port infrastructure have been identified in the seabed between the islands of Kasos (Caso) and Karpathos (Scarpanto), in the Dodecanese (archipelago of Greece), during an unde...
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