Contemporary art - Finestre sull'Arte

Even in Spain, gallery owners denounce too high VAT compared to France and Germany: 'It's discrimination'

As in Italy, galleries in Spain report a difficult situation for the art market due to the failure to reduce VAT on artworks. In fact, the Spanish government continues to apply a21 percent VAT rate to the art market, unlike Germany and France, where ...
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Metamorphosis of creation and perception in the new Technologies of Art

This text is about the connection between art and technology. And I’m talking about technology that genuinely enables the creation of art. Technology as a protagonist, companion, and at the same time an indispensable tool in the creative pr...
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Petrit Halilaj will create a new work in the Langhe, in Dogliani, in a former school

Radis, the art in public space project promoted by the Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, returns for its second edition. After the positive experience in Rittana, where Giulia Cenci created the work le masche, the initiative - again ...
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At MAXXI in Rome an exhibition on water, an element of connection that belongs to everyone and no one

From April 18 to August 17, 2025, MAXXI in Rome hosts the exhibition Something in the Water curated by Oscar Tuazon and Elena Motisi. Water becomes a common thread between artistic languages belonging to different generations and contexts: a fluid, ...
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Pignotti's manuscripts and Italian visual poetry on display at BNCF

From May 8 to July 29, 2025, the Dante Room of the National Central Library in Florence will host a major exhibition of contemporary Italian poetry and art. Entitled Originals. "The Manuscripts of Today's Poets" and Verbo-Visual Poetics in Italy, the...
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Wangechi Mutu at the Borghese Gallery: it is the first exhibition of a living woman in the museum

From June 10 to September 14, 2025, the Borghese Gallery opens its halls for the first time to the solo exhibition of Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu (Nairobi, 1972). The exhibition project Poems of the Black Earth, curated by Cloé Perron...
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Pope Francis died: here's what he did for art during his pontificate

This morning, April 21, 2025, at 7:35 a.m., Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, passed away: the first pope from the American continent in history left behind him a legacy articulated not only on a spiritual level, but also in the cultural and ...
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Bologna, Basilica of San Petronio opens for first time to secular contemporary art with Joan Crous

For the first time,secular contemporary art is making its entrance into the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna: starting Saturday, April 26, on the anniversary of the bombing of Guernica (1937) during the Spanish Civil War at the hands of German and...
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