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May 1 holiday: about 7 million Italians will be traveling, according to Federturismo

May 1 holiday: about 7 million Italians will be traveling, according to Federturismo

The May 1 holiday season is shaping up to be all about travel. According to Federturismo, about 7 million Italians are ready to leave. This is a positive sign for tourism, already buoyed by a 6.8 percent increase in attendance recorded in the past th...
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Artemisia Gentileschi, the decapitated Magdalene sold for 837,500 euros

Artemisia Gentileschi, the decapitated Magdalene sold for 837,500 euros

A result far beyond expectations marked the sale of the... Beheaded Magdalene by Artemisia Gentileschi (Rome, 1593 - Naples, post 1654). This fragmentary painting, which is missing its head(we had discussed it in a dedicated article), fetched an impr...
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At the Rivoli Castle the first solo exhibition in an Italian museum dedicated to Cecilia Vicuña

At the Rivoli Castle the first solo exhibition in an Italian museum dedicated to Cecilia Vicuña

The Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea hosts, from April 29 to September 20, 2026, El glaciar ido(The vanished glacier / The vanished glacier), the first solo exhibition in an Italian museum dedicated to Cecilia Vicuña. Born in Sant...
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Valencia, 2000 years of architecture: gothic, modernism and avant-garde

Valencia, 2000 years of architecture: gothic, modernism and avant-garde

To walk around Valencia is to traverse more than two thousand years of urban history, legible in the different architectural styles that coexist in the city. From evidence of Roman times to contemporary architecture, Valencia's urban fabric looks lik...
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Ca' Riviera, a new center for contemporary art on the Brenta Riviera, is born

Ca' Riviera, a new center for contemporary art on the Brenta Riviera, is born

A new space dedicated tocontemporary art is appearing in the cultural landscape of the Veneto region. In fact, starting May 9, 2026, Ca' Riviera, an independent project founded by Leonardo Tiezzi and Riccardo Corò, opens with the aim of creati...
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Wood in Fabula, in Palazzolo the forest becomes contemporary art

Wood in Fabula, in Palazzolo the forest becomes contemporary art

In Palazzolo sull'Oglio (Brescia), the exhibition Legno in Fabula has recently opened. Go to the woods, go!, set up in the historic spaces of Rocha Magna, the town's castle, from April 18 to June 7, 2026. The initiative is one of the central events o...
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TEFAF and Bank of America fund restoration of rare Medici tapestry at Minneapolis Institute

TEFAF and Bank of America fund restoration of rare Medici tapestry at Minneapolis Institute

The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) has been named as a beneficiary of the TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund 2026, an initiative sponsored by The European Fine Art Foundation together with Bank of America, Lead Partner of TEFAF New York. The joint co...
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The best pavilion at the Venice Biennale? It's your house! Luca Rossi's proposal

The best pavilion at the Venice Biennale? It's your house! Luca Rossi's proposal

Radically redefine the very concept of the exhibition pavilion, moving it from physical space to the domestic dimension. In essence: the best pavilion at the Venice Biennale is your home. This is the proposal of In Home Pavilion, a project by the Luc...
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Modica, Passion Canvases restored: rare 1795 cycle returns

Modica, Passion Canvases restored: rare 1795 cycle returns

In Modica (Ragusa), the Teleri della Passione (Canvases of the Passion ) from the Church of the Carmine, an extraordinarily important pictorial cycle dating back to 1795 and recently recovered after more than a century of oblivion, have been restored...
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Mexico, new monumental Maya site discovered with 80 buildings

Mexico, new monumental Maya site discovered with 80 buildings

TheNational Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), an entity of the Secretariat of Culture of the Government of Mexico, has registered a new Mayan-era archaeological site in the municipality of Othón P. Blanco, in the state of Quintana ...
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Ferrara and cinema: itineraries between directors, films and historical memory

Ferrara and cinema: itineraries between directors, films and historical memory

The link between Ferrara and cinema has its roots in an urban planning that seems to have been conceived for cinematic staging. Often referred to as Europe's first modern city because of the Addizione Erculea, an extraordinary work of urban planning ...
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Working in art and culture: this week's proposals

Working in art and culture: this week's proposals

We continue our in-depth look at opportunities for professionals in the arts and cultural heritage system. Here are vacancies, open positions, opportunities and competitions we have collected between April 21 and April 27, 2026. In Cogne (Aosta Vall...
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Artist's books by Guido Strazza in Subiaco (Rome): the exhibition at Santa Scolastica

Artist's books by Guido Strazza in Subiaco (Rome): the exhibition at Santa Scolastica

The State Library of the Santa Scolastica National Monument in Subiaco, in the province of Rome, is hosting from April 30 to June 2, 2026 the exhibition Libri d'artista. Guido Strazza for Subiaco, curated by Simona Ciofetta and with scientific coordi...
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Recoaro Terme, a new center for art is born: the Cantiere del Contemporaneo

Recoaro Terme, a new center for art is born: the Cantiere del Contemporaneo

A new cultural center dedicated to contemporary art, territory and community is taking shape in Recoaro Terme (Vicenza). It is called "Cantiere del Contemporaneo" and is a wide-ranging initiative that will be officially inaugurated on Saturday, May 2...
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The first standard for cultural heritage management is born

The first standard for cultural heritage management is born

SGPI01:2024, the first standard dedicated to the protection, enhancement and accessibility of cultural heritage, promoted by the Stati Generali del Patrimonio Italiano together with Certiquality, was presented in Florence. The initiative aims to intr...
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Capua, restored the wooden Madonna by Pietro and Giovanni Alemanno

Capua, restored the wooden Madonna by Pietro and Giovanni Alemanno

The Diocesan Museum of Capua (Caserta) presented the restoration of a polychrome wooden sculpture depicting a Madonna and Child attributed to sculptors Pietro Alemanno and Giovanni Alemanno and dated around 1480. The intervention is part of the 20th...
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A new gallery opens in Milan: Ghiringhelli Art Gallery. It starts with Japanese art

A new gallery opens in Milan: Ghiringhelli Art Gallery. It starts with Japanese art

From May 8 to June 27, 2026, Milan will host the debut of Ghiringhelli Art Gallery, a new exhibition project specializing in contemporary Japanese art, which opens with the exhibition Refracted Worlds. Contemporary Japan Through Multiple Lenses. The ...
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Tessere d'Arte in Forlì: Fiber Art and enterprise in the Dino Zoli Foundation exhibition

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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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