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Art and volunteerism meet in Rome: exhibition at CSV Lazio

In Rome,contemporary art comes out of traditional circuits and meets the world of social work with The Fifth Season. Art at the Center of Volunteering, an exhibition that will be inaugurated on May 14, 2026 at 6 p.m. at the regional headquarters of C...
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Amina Saoudi at the Biennale: story of an underrated artist that legitimizes Koyo Kouoh's exhibition

In the shortlist of ten Arab artists competing in the 61st Venice Art Biennale, including such well-known ones as Kader Attia and Walid Raad, only three artists are from an earlier generation, born between the 1940s and 1950s: Palestinian Vera Tamari...
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Christo returns to London: a project from Gagosian that never came to fruition

Gagosian has announced an exhibition dedicated to Christo that, at the gallery's London headquarters, will bring together rare works and a historical project that was never realized, conceived with Jeanne-Claude in 1968. The exhibition, titled Christ...
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Iran renounces participation in Venice Biennale

More shingles on the Venice Biennale 2026. Today, just days before the official opening,Iran announced that it will not take part in the 61st International Art Exhibition, scheduled for May 9 to November 22, 2026. The news was released through a stat...
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Equatorial Guinea debuts at the Venice Biennale with Paraguayan artist Ingrid Seall and the theme of undergrowth

From May 9 to Nov. 22, 2026, Palazzo Donà dalle Rose in Venice will host, within the Pavilion of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, present for the first time in history in the official programming of the Venice Biennale, Paraguayan artist Ing...
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In my unassuming opinion. On the visibility of Italian art outside Italy.

Visibility-invisibility of Italian art outside Italy is the theme that most recurs in the discourses that have been made, at least since the last two decades, within the Italian art world. However, in my unassuming opinion, the real problem is not so...
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At MAXXI L'Aquila, exhibition dedicated to Ai Weiwei recounts catastrophes and memory

From April 29 to Sept. 6, 2026, MAXXI L'Aquila will host AI WEIWEI: Aftershock, an exhibition entirely dedicated to Ai Weiwei (Beijing, 1957), a Chinese artist, architect and activist who is among the best-known figures on the international contempor...
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Venice, in the Sale Canoviane of the Museo Correr, Julian Charrière in dialogue with Canova

At the Museo Correr in Venice the exhibition Dialoghi Canoviani continues, a project that relates contemporary artistic research to the legacy of Antonio Canova. The second edition offers a confrontation between the Franco-Swiss artist Julian Charri&...
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