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Reportage from Modenantiquaria 2025: our selection of the most interesting works (with prices)

Modenantiquaria is one of the most important events in the Italian and international antiques scene, and the 2025 edition, running from Feb. 8 to 16, will not disappoint the expectations of enthusiasts and experts in the field. The fair, held every y...
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One border, two cities, Nova Gorica and Gorica: the European capital is "borderless"

It has now been 40 years since the first nomination of a city as European Capital of Culture, an initiative that rewards those entities capable of contributing to the strengthening of the European "spirit" and cultural ties of the people living in EU...
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Reportage from Arte Fiera 2025: the guide to the most interesting things (with prices)

Almost two hundred galleries, more than half a century old, four curated sections, nine prizes, hundreds of works to see, evaluate, try to understand, try to like. Arte Fiera arrives at 2025 without feeling the burden of its 48 editions and its 51 ye...
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Assault on Culture Decree: League proposes amendment weakening superintendencies

Due to arrive next Monday, Feb. 3, in the House chamber is the "culture" decree law, approved by the Council of Ministers on Dec. 23."The Decree approved today is a first step to respond to the needs of the culture value chain and to give a perspecti...
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Siena's Pinacoteca Nazionale reassembles a masterpiece, Sano di Pietro's Polyptych of the Gesuati

The Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena recomposes after centuries the Polyptych of the Gesuati by Sano di Pietro (Siena, 1405 - 1481): the Madonna Enthroned between St. Dominic, St. Jerome, Blessed Giovanni Colombini, St. Augustine and St. Francis, preser...
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Between art and science, the Botanical Museum of the University of Pisa.

Heirs to immense cultural and scientific heritages, university museums are called upon in our contemporary times to face the age-old problem of variegated collections, made up of objects that are not easy to read, pertaining to sectorial fields of em...
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Luca Beatrice, a "tester" of Italian art. For a critical profile

Luca Beatrice has always been convinced that Futurism was the only, true Italian avant-garde of the twentieth century. It is necessary to start from here in order to situate his figure as a critic, of equal if not greater importance than that of the ...
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The best exhibitions of 2024 according to the expert jury of Finestre Sull'Arte

As per tradition, on the last day of the year Finestre Sull'Arte publishes the ranking of the best Italian exhibitions of the year just ended. This year, for the ranking of the best exhibitions of 2024 in Italy, there are two important novelties: we ...
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How Italy's autonomous museums fared in 2023

Comprehensive statistical data on state museum institutions in the year 2023 were released in November. Beyond the generic releases issued already months ago (visitors are growing, by a little, and receipts are growing by a lot, thanks in part toincr...
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But could Italy ask France to return the works requisitioned by Napoleon?

CouldItaly demand from France the return of all the works requisitioned during the Napoleonic spoliations that did not come back after the fall of Napoleon and that are still kept in French museums? This is a question that is often asked when one he...
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About Picasso the foreigner

We receive a response from Annie Cohen-Solal, curator of the Picasso the Strangerexhibition in Milan (Palazzo Reale, September 20, 2024 to February 2, 2025), to Federico Giannini's review, and at the same time also a text from a young writer, Ginevr...
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G7 Tourism: what was discussed at the two-day event in Florence

"Keep tourism among the priorities of national and international political agendas": this is the unprecedented passage contained in the final document signed by representatives of the G7 countries at the summit held in Florence Nov. 13-15. Long consi...
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The aesthetics of the bolt

In recent days one of today's most important Italian poets, Valerio Magrelli, published an alarming article on the increasing number of contemporary art sculptures made of all kinds of materials and in random and more or less useless forms that are n...
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Artissima 2024, our selection: 20 works to see (with prices)

Artissima, Turin's contemporary art fair, reaches its thirty-first edition in 2024, confirming the Piedmontese capital as one of the nerve centers for the contemporary art market. Among the thousands of works presented in the galleries of Artissima, ...
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Where do the coins from the Trevi Fountain go?

The Trevi Fountain is undoubtedly one of the most famous monuments in the world: first of all, of course, because of the extraordinary work of the late Baroque that it is, but also because of the ritual associated with it that every tourist who comes...
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Art Basel reclaims its name and rediscovers the Grand Palais: a monumental fair

It has regained its former institutional home, the imposing Grand Palais, and definitively enshrined its new name, Art Basel Paris, the multi-location fair that from city to city marks the annual calendar for the entire art world and creates a series...
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