Venice - Finestre sull'Arte

Luc Tuymans creates two unpublished works for the altar of the Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice

From May 9 to November 23, 2025, the altar of the Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice will host two new works by Belgian painter Luc Tuymans (Mortsel, 1958), among the most influential voices in contemporary painting. Commissioned by the Bened...
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Venice, major discovery at Rialto: 16th century mural painting resurfaces on Grand Canal

In the heart of Venice, under the daily eyes of thousands of passersby and tourists, a forgotten fragment of history and art was hiding. Now, thanks to a careful and shared intervention, that fragment has returned to light. In fact, during restoratio...
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Here's how Venetian museums showcase their 20th-century treasures. Interview with Elisabetta Barisoni

After more than a decade spent as a curator at Mart in Rovereto, in 2015 Elizabeth Barisoni found a home at Muve - Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, becoming already the following year responsible for the organizational management of the Internatio...
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Venice, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection dedicates an exhibition to Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice presents from April 12 to September 15, 2025 the exhibition Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. Anatomy of a Space, curated by Flavia Frigeri. The exhibition offers an in-depth and wholly new look at theevolution o...
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Venice's Doge's Palace hosts an exhibition on gold, an artistic dialogue between Crete and Venice

From April 30 to September 29, 2025, the Doge's Palace in Venice, in the Doge's Apartment, hosts the exhibition The Painted Gold. El Greco and Painting between Crete and Venice, curated by Chiara Squarcina, Katerina Dellaporta and Andrea Bellieni. A...
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Venice is in danger of being largely submerged by 2150. INGV's shock study

Venice and its lagoon could face a future marked by extreme flooding if urgent measures are not taken to counter sea level rise and continued soil subsidence. This is the alarm raised by researchers from theNational Institute of Geophysics and Volcan...
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Awe, reality, enigma: Pietro Bellotti and seventeenth-century painting on display in Venice

The Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice announces the opening of the exhibition Awe, Reality, Enigma. Pietro Bellotti and Seventeenth-Century Painting in Venice, which will be on view from September 19, 2025 to January 18, 2026. Curated by Francesco Ce...
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At Venice airport, Koen Vanmechelen's Noah's Ark. It will be on display for one year

A traditional Venetian vaporetto is reinterpreted and transformed into a modern ark carrying a microcosm of our world. It is Noah's Ark, the impressive work by Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen, which has been on display for a few days at theVenice air...
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