Twentieth Century - Finestre sull'Arte

On the silent modernity of Emilio Malerba. What the exhibition in Lucca looks like

The fingers press on the keys with an almost painful subtlety. One seems to feel them as they rest on the black and white of the piano with a precise and obsessive tension, as if each phalanx must learn obedience even before the sound. In that slight...
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Tribute exhibition to Arnaldo Pomodoro at Gallerie d'Italia in Milan one year after his death

The Gallerie d'Italia in Milan's Piazza Scala welcomes, from May 29 to October 18, 2026, the exhibition Arnaldo Pomodoro: A Life. The great works of the Intesa Sanpaolo Collections and Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation. A tribute that Gallerie d'Italia - I...
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The queer before the queer. Tivoli between ruins and desire

Between the late nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century, Tivoli assumed a new role in the European artistic imagination. Villa Adriana and Villa d'Este gradually ceased to be merely archaeological destinations or obligatory...
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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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