Twentieth Century - Finestre sull'Arte

Gianni Bertini, the tireless research of a protagonist of the avant-garde on display in Lecce

The Biscozzi | Rimbaud Foundation in Lecce is hosting, from May 16 to September 13, 2026, an exhibition dedicated to Gianni Bertini(Pisa, 1922 - Caen, 2010), entitled Gianni Bertini. Story of a man without history. The initiative, born from the syne...
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At the Oman National Museum in Muscat, a reflection on Italian design from the postwar period to the present day

The exhibition 1 to a Million Italian Design Stories opened on May 23, 2026 at theOman National Museum in Muscat, and can be visited until November 15, 2026. The exhibition is produced by ADI Design Museum and curated by Maria Cristina Didero, with i...
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Max Bill, the form that measures time. What the Chiasso exhibition looks like

There is a small blue timer hanging on the wall in one of the last rooms of the exhibition that the m.a.x. museum in Chiasso is dedicating to Max Bill, and perhaps it is necessary to start from here, from an object that is domestic and almost meek in...
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Ghosts, myths, visions: this is Symbolism in Italy. What the Magnani Rocca exhibition looks like.

It may provoke mild, amused unease to think that the Villa Borghese painted by Onorato Carlandi is pure invention, a pagan fantasy, the shredding of a dream. It does not exist, that Villa Borghese. There is not the great, sinister, shadowy oak that C...
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Great Art at the Movies continues with a documentary on Lucio Fontana, May 25, 26 and 27 only

The second event of the new season of La Grande Arte al Cinema will be dedicated to Lucio Fontana. The documentary Lucio Fontana, The Final Cut, produced by Nexo Studios and Good Day Films, will arrive in Italian theaters on May 25, 26 and 27, 2026. ...
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Churchill painter: at the Wallace Collection, London, the first major posthumous exhibition in the UK

The Wallace Collection in London is dedicating a major retrospective to the paintings of Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), the first major posthumous exhibition in the United Kingdom devoted to his art. The exhibition, open to the public from May 23...
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The Maritime Republics, the birth of a myth: from nineteenth-century intuition to fascism

The concept of "maritime republics" is of relatively recent invention , a formulation owed to a Swiss historian named Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi and in particular to his Histoire des républiques italiennes du moyen â...
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At Castel Sant'Angelo, the Cambellotti Rooms reopen to the public for the exhibition dedicated to Duilio Cambellotti

At Castel Sant'Angelo, the Cambellotti Rooms (the Hall of Columns, the Assault Units Room and the Cavalry Room), decorated by Duilio Cambellotti between 1925 and 1926 to house the flags of the disbanded regiments after World War I, reopen to the publ...
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