Venice - Finestre sull'Arte

Fondazione Prada 2026 program: new Settis exhibition and Jafa project stand out

Exhibitions by major international artists: this is what 2026 will look like for the Fondazione Prada in its Milan and Venice venues. The program will feature, in detail, Cao Fei, Cyprien Gaillard, Mona Hatoum, Arthur Jafa, Richard Prince, and Hito S...
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Christie's is putting up for sale Ca' Dario, the... cursed house in Venice painted by Monet

In the Dorsoduro sestiere, along one of the best-known stretches of the Grand Canal in Venice, Ca' Dario, also known as Palazzo Dario, is now the subject of a proposed sale curated by Christie's International Real Estate. The building overlooks one o...
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Venice, museum tickets rise: Doge's Palace becomes a 35-euro bloodletting

Visiting the Doge's Palace in Venice, starting this 2026 that has just begun, will be a bloodletting: not that the ticket to the city's most visited site used to be cheap, but as of this year the Venice Civic Museums Foundation has decided on a 5 eur...
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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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Etruscans and Veneti: an exhibition in Venice on the fundamental role of water in the sacred and society

From March 6, 2026, theDoge's Apartment in the Doge's Palace in Venice will host the exhibition Etruschi e Veneti. Waters, Cults and Sanctuaries, an exhibition project with a broad scientific and popular scope in order to investigate the fundamental ...
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In Venice, Olaf Nicolai installs a skating rink in an 18th-century frescoed palace

In the year of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, in Venice you can skate in the frescoed ballroom on the second floor of an ancient 18th-century palace. In fact, at Palazzo Diedo, Berggruen Arts & Culture presents Eisfeld II, an ice in...
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The history of glass in Venice does not start from the Renaissance, but has older origins: new research reveals

The history of glass in Venice has its roots in a far more remote, articulate and technologically advanced past than one imagines. When one thinks of Venetian glass in fact, the collective imagination leads to the Renaissance, but this deeply ingrain...
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Venice, Pinault Collection announces new exhibitions for 2026, between Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana

The Venetian spaces of the Pinault Collection will host four major solo exhibitions dedicated to leading artists of the contemporary scene, starting in spring 2026, set up between Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana. From March 29, 2026 to January...
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