Contemporary art - Finestre sull'Arte

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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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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The best exhibitions of 2025 according to more than 100 experts. Here are the rankings

On December 31 of each year, Finestre Sull'Arte publishes the ranking of the best Italian exhibitions of the year just ended. Once again this year, the ranking of the best exhibitions of 2025 in Italy was decreed by a quality jury composed of more th...
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It is painter Maïa Régis this year who pays homage to Caravaggio's Nativity in the Oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo

For the sixteenth edition of NEXT, the project created in 2010 with "the intent to exorcise, through contemporary art, one of the deepest wounds in the world's cultural heritage, transforming the grief over the loss of the Nativity by Caravaggio, sto...
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Milan, at Palazzo Citterio, Debora Hirsch's digital installation dedicated to endangered trees

From January 15 to April 15, 2026, the large ledwall on the ground floor of Palazzo Citterio in Milan will host Vanishing Trees, a site-specific installation by Debora Hirsch, curated by Clelia Patella. The project, promoted by Palazzo Citterio and M...
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Reading the art of the present without hierarchies. Interview with Maurizio Coccia

What is the meaning of curating contemporary art today, understood as a practice of connecting and surfacing the present? In this interview with Gabriele Landi, Maurizio Coccia, Director of the Center for Contemporary Art Palazzo Lucarini in Trevi (P...
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MUS.E Foundation launches two new calls for artists and curators

Residencies, training and production represent the pillars through which Fondazione MUS.E renews and strengthens its commitment to supportcontemporary art, launching two new calls aimed at artists, artists and curators. Within the cultural programmi...
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What happened to scandal in contemporary art?

There was a time whenart knew how to set the squares on fire. When Manet exhibited his Olympia in 1865, the Parisian bourgeoisie screamed outrage: it was not the nude itself, but the direct gaze of the model, who did not allow herself to be consumed ...
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