Twentieth Century - Finestre sull'Arte

Franco Vaccari, the artist who envisioned the audience as a work of art. What’s the exhibition in Bolzano like?

It will happen—no one knows when, but we can predict it with a certain degree of certainty—that Franco Vaccari will cease to be regarded merely as an excellent photographer and will begin to be recognized for what he truly was, namely, a steadfast pi...
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An exhibition in Bibbona rediscovers Memo Vagaggini, a leading figure of the early 20th century

From July 9 to October 25, 2026, the Palazzo del Comune Vecchio in Bibbona ( Livorno) will host the exhibition *Memo Vagaggini: Painting Between Reality and Dream*, an exhibition dedicated to one of the leading figures in early 20th-century painting,...
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The Method of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Pioneers of Industrial Photography. What the MAST Exhibition Is Like

Starting in the 1960s, the structural crisis in the mining and steel industries profoundly reshaped the economy and geography of those European countries that had most closely based their industrial identity on that model. Oil, which was cheaper and ...
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Ancona Focuses on the 20th Century: A Trilogy of Exhibitions to Reexamine Italian Art

The City of Ancona is launching a new exhibition program dedicated to 20th-century art in Italy and the Marche region, featuring a project comprising three exhibitions that, over the course of two years, will explore the role of the Marche region in ...
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Keith Haring Exhibition in Rome: Over 140 Works at Palazzo Braschi

From October 6, 2026, to April 11, 2027, the Museo di Roma at Palazzo Braschi will host “Keith Haring,” a major exhibition dedicated to one of the most famous and beloved artists of the second half of the 20th century. Curated by Kaoru Yanase, Ilaria...
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Three sculptures by Robert Rauschenberg donated to the Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland

Three major sculptures by Robert Rauschenberg (Port Arthur, 1925 – Captiva Island, 2008) are joining the ARTIST ROOMS collection, a collection of modern and contemporary art established in 2008 and managed by the Tate in London and the National...
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Two rare Futurist flowers by Giacomo Balla are added to the collections of the KMSKA in Antwerp

Bottegantica announces the acquisition by the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (KMSKA) in Antwerp of a rare pair of Futurist sculptures created by Giacomo Balla. The works, *Tree* and *Rose*, dating from around 1918, are two painted wo...
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The Fattori Museum in Livorno Gets a Makeover: Why the New Exhibition Design Marks a Turning Point

The old layout of the Fattori Museum in Livorno is gone, finished, no longer exists, and we will never see it again: dismantled before last year’s exhibition on Giovanni Fattori, it has now been completely renovated, transformed, and replaced. ...
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