Modern Art - Finestre sull'Arte

Milan, here is the program of exhibitions on the occasion of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympics

Milan is preparing to welcome the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games with an approach that goes beyond sports, transforming the city into a major cultural stage. The City Council, together with leading cultural institutions, has p...
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Sotheby's Paris: record 89.7 million and a Modigliani sold for 27 million

During Art Basel Paris week, the energy surrounding the art market translated into an unprecedented result for Sotheby's Paris office. The auction house recorded its highest total ever in France for a combined sale of modern and surrealist art, with ...
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England, five-figure sale for a Dalí that was bought for only £150

A fortuitous discovery turned into a surprising artistic rediscovery and a major adjudication on the international market. An original painting by Salvador Dalí, purchased for only 150 pounds during a house clearance in Cambridge, England(we h...
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Gipsoteche e Musei d'artista in Toscana: study day in Montevarchi (Arezzo)

The Cassero per la scultura italiana dell'Ottocento e del Novecento - Museo Civico di Montevarchi (Arezzo) is organizing, in collaboration with the Centro Cagianelli per il '900, a study day dedicated to Gipsoteche and Musei d'artista in Toscana. The...
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Not just cuts: why Lucio Fontana was a ceramic genius

Lucio Fontana (Rosario, 1899 - Comabbio, 1968), although internationally recognized primarily for his Cuts (or, rather, Waits), actually devoted a preponderant part of his creative activity to ceramics, a medium of expression that he radically transf...
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Art won't stop war, but it still teaches how to look at the world

What can art do in the face of war? At first glance I would feel like rephrasing the question into what, in the face of the current scenario, we, all of us, could or should do. Evidently little, even where a civilian consciousness makes its presence ...
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Qatar turns out to own "Desperate" Courbet's masterpiece

The famous Self-Portrait by Gustave Courbet (Ornans, 1819 - La-Tour-de-Peilz, 1877) known as Le Désespéré ("The Despairing Man") was revealed today to be the property of the Qatar Museums: the news came as an agreement was announ...
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Rome remembers Giulio Turcato with a retrospective on the 30th anniversary of his death

Rome commemorates, on the 30th anniversary of his death, Giulio Turcato (Mantua, 1912 - Rome, 1995), one of the most radical and inventive figures in post-World War II Italian art, with an exhibition hosted at the Giuliani Foundation for Contemporary...
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