Contemporary art - Finestre sull'Arte

The private collector: savior or jailer of art?

There are figures who, more than others, traverse art history as ambivalent presences, somewhere between the generosity ofthe patron and the rigor of the banker. Figures who do not create, do not paint, do not sculpt, but without whom much art woul...
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Kunst Meran Merano Arte's 2026 program between exhibitions, residencies and urban reflection

Kunst Meran Merano Arte presented its cultural program for 2026, outlining a calendar that moves between contemporary art, architecture, curatorial research and public engagement practices. The new season consists of three exhibition projects, an art...
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Back for its 14th edition ART CITY Bologna, dedicated this year to knowledge and its transmission

From Thursday, February 5 to Sunday, February 8, 2026, ART CITY Bologna returns, now in its fourteenth edition. The program of exhibitions and events, promoted by the Municipality of Bologna with the support of BolognaFiere on the occasion of Arte Fi...
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Contemporary art of 2025 is women. What emerges from the ranking of the best exhibitions

Two pieces of data emerge, and extremely prominently, from the ranking of the best exhibitions held in Italy in 2025. Before going into them, however, a few details to provide the reader with a little context. Finestre sull'Arte wanted to repeat last...
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Farewell to Guglielmo Aschieri, the painter of still lifes. Gianluca Sgherri's remembrance

Guglielmo Emilio Aschieri, besides being a fine artist, was a kind, thoughtful and, above all, irresistibly nice man. His painting has always impressed me deeply. While moving within a traditional, solid and impeccable technique, his work was strikin...
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Ministry of Culture, allocated about 272 thousand euros for acquisition of contemporary works in state museums

The Ministry of Culture has issued a circular setting out procedures and criteria for the submission of proposals aimed at theacquisition of works of contemporary art to enrich the collections of state museums and places of culture. The measure, issu...
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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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Nan Goldin, when life becomes image. What the HangarBicocca exhibition looks like.

To crown Nan Goldin's more than 40-year career, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, in collaboration with the Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin and the Grand Palais Rmn in Paris, has or...
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