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Stephanie Rosenthal will be the new artistic director of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam

Stephanie Rosenthal will be the new artistic director of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam starting in the spring of 2027. The appointment was announced on September 30 by the museum’s Supervisory Board. Rosenthal is currently dire...
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Sotheby’s is auctioning the Blaquier-Arrieta collection, featuring works by Monet, Van Gogh, and Cézanne

On November 18, 2026, in New York,Sotheby’s will present the Blaquier-Arrieta Collection, a collection of works that traces some of the key milestones in the emergenceof modern art,from Impressionism in the 1870s to the innovations of Post-Impr...
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At the Sacra di San Michele, a new elevator makes the heart of the monument accessible

To create the elevator shaft inside the Sacra di San Michele, it was necessary to cut into the rock. It was therefore not merely a matter of installing a new elevator system in a historic building: the construction of the new elevator—which now ensur...
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The scandal surrounding Prince Poniatowski’s “antique” gems resurfaces at the BIAF

When, in 1832, the Polish prince Stanisław Poniatowski, grandson of the last king of Poland, published the second volume of the catalog raisonné of his vast collection of engraved stones in Florence, he included in the introductory pages a sta...
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In Rome, the Mitreo Barberini—the sanctuary of Mithras hidden beneath the Barberini Palace—reopens to the public

The Barberini Mithraeum, one of the most fascinating sites in underground Rome, will reopen to the public on October 3, 2026. The sanctuary of the ancient cult of Mithras, hidden beneath the Palazzo Barberini, houses one of the most significant depic...
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Alex Da Corte brings "Sun and Shadow" to the Palazzo della Ragione in Bergamo

Bergamo is hosting a new exhibition by Alex Da Corte (Camden, New Jersey, 1980), created for the Palazzo della Ragione, from November 13, 2026, to January 17, 2027. The exhibition, titled Sun and Shadow, is curated by Stefano Raimondi and produced by...
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Volterra: A Photo of Piazzale Loreto Becomes a Work of Art and Sparks a Political Controversy

The famous historical photograph of Mussolini hanging upside down in Piazzale Loreto, turned into a poster and displayed in the window of an art studio in downtown Volterra (Pisa), has become the center of a political controversy. The image shows the...
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Mercanteinfiera returns to Parma with new sections and four exhibitions exploring the memory of objects

The 45th fall edition of Mercanteinfiera, scheduled to take place at Fiere di Parma from October 3 to 11, 2026, will also be dedicated to objects as instruments of memory. The event, one of the leading international fairs dedicated to antiques, moder...
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