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In Milan, a weekend entirely dedicated to the universe of Hayao Miyazaki

As part of the exhibition Itadakimasu. Hidden Stories in the Anime Kitchen, set up at Spazio Varesina 204 in Milan until April 6, 2026, a weekend entirely dedicated to the universe of Hayao Miyazaki. Through the written word and drawing, the proposed...
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Venice, museum tickets rise: Doge's Palace becomes a 35-euro bloodletting

Visiting the Doge's Palace in Venice, starting this 2026 that has just begun, will be a bloodletting: not that the ticket to the city's most visited site used to be cheap, but as of this year the Venice Civic Museums Foundation has decided on a 5 eur...
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Genoa, strike at National Museums over staff shortages. Management: soon to be filled

In Genoa , it's strike today at the national museum venues: the USB union, after formally launching the mobilization last Dec. 23, 2025, has called an agitation for today, Tuesday, Jan. 6, at the venues of Palazzo Reale in Via Balbi and Palazzo Spino...
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Paris, this is what the new contemporary stained glass windows at Notre-Dame will look like. But it's a controversy

An exhibition entirely devoted to the new stained glass windows of Notre-Dame Cathedral, which were designed by French artist Claire Tabouret (Pertuis, 1981), opened last Dec. 10 and will run until March 15, 2026, at the Grand Palais in Paris. The ex...
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The Royal Palace of Caserta reopens its restored Grand Fishpond after years

On Epiphany Day, the Royal Palace of Caserta returns one of its most evocative places to the Royal Park: the Peschiera Grande, in the heart of the Old Woods. After years marked by a complex and lengthy dispute with the first-ranked company in the bid...
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Rome's Villa Medici hosts the first major retrospective dedicated to Agnès Varda in Italy

From March 25 to May 25, 2026, Villa Medici, home of theFrench Academy in Rome, pays tribute to the photographic production of Agnès Varda (1928-2019) with the first major retrospective dedicated to her in Italy, held on the occasion of the 70...
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At 2,732 meters above sea level, at Lagazuoi, Fulvio Morella's art, inclusion and sports project

It opened on January 3, 2026, at the Lagazuoi Expo Dolomiti, one of the highest exhibition spaces in Europe, located at 2,732 meters above sea level, Fulvio Morella 's Cortina di Stelle exhibition, the final chapter of the project I limiti non esisto...
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Farewell to Lucia Di Luciano, protagonist of the last Vanguard of twentieth-century art

Lucia Di Luciano, a central figure in the research ofkinetic-programmed art, has passed away at the age of 93. Over the course of a career spanning more than 70 years, the artist established herself as a leading protagonist of what Lea Vergine called...
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80 works on Ovid's Metamorphoses on display at the Rijksmuseum, in collaboration with the Galleria Borghese in Rome

Very few literary works of antiquity have exerted such a profound and lasting influence on art as Ovid's Metamorphoses. The major exhibition to be staged at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam from February 6 to May 25, 2026, entitled Metamorphoses, will br...
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Vienna, at the Leopold Museum the first monographic exhibition dedicated to Gustave Courbet in Austria

From February 19 to June 21, 2026, the Leopold Museum in Vienna will host Gustave Courbet. Realist and Rebel, the first monographic exhibition devoted to Courbet in Austria. Gustave Courbet is considered one of the leading exponents of realism, a mo...
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Michelangelo and Rodin in dialogue and comparison in an exhibition at the Musée du Louvre

From April 15 to July 20, 2026, the Louvre will host in the Hall Napoléon the exhibition Michel-Ange/ Rodin. Corps Vivants, curated by Marc Bormand and Chloé Ariot, and organized by the Musée du Louvre with the collaboration of t...
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Donated 61 works by Matisse to the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris. They tell the story of the bond between the artist and his daughter

Sixty-one works by Henri Matisse are entering the collections of the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris thanks to a generous donation from Barbara Dauphin Duthuit, wife of Claude Duthuit, grandson of the famous painter. Following the Matisse et Mar...
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Ca' Pesaro hosts the first major Venetian exhibition dedicated to Jenny Saville

The Ca' Pesaro Gallery of Modern Art in Venice will host Jenny Saville at Ca' Pesaro from March 28 to November 22, 2026, the first major Venetian exhibition dedicated to the artist. The exhibition aims to recount the path of one of the most significa...
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Perugia celebrates Giotto and St. Francis with a major exhibition

From March 14 to June 14, 2026, the National Gallery of Umbria in Perugia celebrates the800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi with the major exhibition Giotto and St. Francis. A Revolution in Fourteenth-Century Umbria, curated by Ve...
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Forte dei Marmi, Villa Bertelli opens Mino Maccari's living room with an exhibition

Until Jan. 6, 2026, an exhibition in the halls of Villa Bertelli in Forte dei Marmi allows visitors to take a journey inside the creative universe of Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989). Entitled The Maccari Collection. In my living room, and cu...
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Monumental paintings in the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and Martyrs in Rome restored

The complex restoration of the 18th-century altarpieces and canvases by Francesco Trevisani and Niccolò Ricciolini in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome has been completed. The intervention, which involved 20 large ...
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Etruscans and Veneti: an exhibition in Venice on the fundamental role of water in the sacred and society

From March 6, 2026, theDoge's Apartment in the Doge's Palace in Venice will host the exhibition Etruschi e Veneti. Waters, Cults and Sanctuaries, an exhibition project with a broad scientific and popular scope in order to investigate the fundamental ...
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Madrid, Prado acquires work by Luisa Roldán: historic recognition for Baroque sculptor

For the first time in its history, the Prado Museum in Madrid welcomes into its collections a sculpture by Luisa Roldán (Seville, 1652 - Madrid, 1706), one of the most extraordinary and long underrated figures of the Spanish Baroque. The entry...
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Amsterdam, the Vondelkerk, an important neo-Gothic church, on fire: possibly a firework

New Year's Eve in Amsterdam was marked by a dramatic event that deeply affected the city's architectural heritage. Around 00:50 on January 1, 2026, a fire of vast proportions broke out at the Vondelkerk, the 19th-century neo-Gothic church located in ...
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All the portraits of Jan van Eyck reunited for the first time: will happen in 2026 in London

For the first time in history, all portraits painted by Jan van Eyck (Maaseik, 1390 - Bruges, 1441) will be brought together in a single exhibition. It will happen at the National Gallery in London, which from Nov. 21, 2026 to April 11, 2027 will hos...
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The 15 most read articles of 2025 on Finestre Sull'Arte

As tradition dictates, the New Year of Finestre Sull'Arte begins with a ranking of the 15 most-read articles in the magazine in the past year: so for this New Year's Eve 2026, too, let's take a look at the most popular and most talked-about articles ...
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Exhibitions 2026: all the previews of the announced exhibitions

Let's start 2026 with previews of the exhibitions that will take us throughout this new year. From Milan to Venice, from Genoa to Turin to Rome, here are 20 exhibitions announced for a 2026 full of great art. 1. Anselm Kiefer, Robert Mapplethorpe, t...
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Cinetel, 496 million box office in 2025 with 68 million tickets sold

According to data released by Cinetel, the cinema sector closes the year with significant results, reaching a total box office of 496 million euros and 68 million admissions. These figures are in continuity with those recorded in the previous two yea...
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At the Capodimonte Museum, Bertozzi & Casoni's ceramics dialogue with the permanent collection

The Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples welcomes until April 26, 2026 the exhibition Bertozzi & Casoni. Metamorphosis, curated by Eike Schmidt and Diego Galizzi. The exhibition takes place in the rooms of the Royal Apartments on the secon...
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The most interesting archaeological discoveries of 2025

What were the most interesting and surprising archaeological discoveries of 2025? We have selected some of the most significant finds. Archaeology continues to prove itself to be a constantly evolving discipline, capable of returning fragments of an...
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