Art and artists

From India to Thailand, here are the world's tallest statues

A huge tribute to one of the founding fathers of today's Indian Republic: at 182 meters high, the Statue of Unity with the likeness of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is to date the tallest statue in the world. The tribute to the man who in the 1940s led th...
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An end and not a means. The 100 years of the Ravenna Mosaic School.

Exactly 100 years ago, in 1924, the Mosaic School of theRavenna Academy of Fine Arts was born. To commemorate the centennial (1924-2024), the Academy has initiated a program of initiatives that include reviews, conferences and publications designed t...
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Winners of Praemium Imperiale 2024, the Oscars of Art, announced

The winners of the Praemium Imperiale 2024, the Oscar of Art, were announced this morning. They are Sophie Calle (France) for painting, Doris Salcedo (Colombia) for sculpture, Shigeru Ban (Japan) for architecture, Maria João Pires (Portugal/Sw...
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10 works to learn about Grazia Varisco, pioneer of Italian kinetic art

Grazia Varisco (Milan, Italy, 1937) is a major figure in the Italian modern and kinetic art scene. She is known for her exploration of visual perceptions and spatial dynamics through the use of industrial materials and innovative techniques. The arti...
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Marina Abramović arrives in Pesaro, in augmented and live reality

As a national premiere, from June 5 to June 18, 2024, the Pescheria Visual Arts Center in Pesaro, as part of Pesaro Capital of Culture 2024, presents THE LIFE installation, a 19-minute full-scale cinematic experience with an original performance by M...
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Venice Biennale, to Anna Maria Maiolino and Nil Yalter the Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement

On Saturday, April 20, 2024 at Ca' Giustinian in Venice, the awards and opening ceremony of the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale was held. During the event, Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement were awarded to artists Anna Ma...
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Biennale, at the Dutch Pavilion works by Congolese collective CATPC made with cocoa and palm oil

For the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, the Congolese artist collective Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC) celebrates the blasphemous and the sacred within the Dutch Pavilion, displayed in the G...
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Biennale, at the French Pavilion a poetic journey into the ocean with Julien Creuzet

The title of the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, "Strangers Everywhere," proposed by Adriano Pedrosa, gave a clear political and social orientation to the 2024 event. This title makes direct reference to the work of the Pa...
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Biennale 2024, at Turkey Pavilion a project on the current world affected by wars and tragedies

For the 2004 edition of the Venice Biennale, the Pavilion of Turkey presents Hollow and Broken: A State of the World, a site-specific installation by Gülsün Karamustafa, one of Turkey's most influential artists. Located in the historic Arse...
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Iceland Pavilion at the Biennale presents an ironic exhibition on our material culture

The Icelandic Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia opens to the public this week, presenting That's a Very Large Number - A Commerzbau by Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir. The exhibition, curated by American curat...
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Venice Biennale, at Nigeria pavilion a project on the country's imagery

For the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, the Nigeria Pavilion presents the Nigeria Imaginary project, commissioned by Godwin Obaseki, Governor of Edo State, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture and Creat...
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Florence, Novecento Museum opens new residencies for artists and curators in Ex-Leopoldine complex

Florence 's Museo Novecento opens its doors to four artists and a curator who will reside for six months in the new residences within the former Leopoldine complex in Piazza Santa Maria Novella. The first edition of the WONDERFUL! Art Research Progra...
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Henry Moore's Warrior with Shield arrives forever on the Terrace of Saturn in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio

More than fifty years have passed since Henry Moore 's (Castleford, 1898 - Perry Green, 1986) exhibition at Forte di Belvedere. Now, his sculpture Warrior with Shield, owned by the British Institute of Florence, finds a permanent home on the Terrace ...
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Iva Lulashi will represent Albania at the 2024 Biennale. Her project will be about sex and love

It will be the young Iva Lulashi (Tirana, 1988) who will representAlbania at the Venice Biennale 2024. The painter, who was born in Albania and moved to Italy as a child, did all her training here and works in our country: in fact, she graduated in 2...
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Surprise at Medici Chapels: three more months to visit Michelangelo's Secret Room

Florence, three more months to visit Michelangelo 's secret room at the Medici Chapel Museum. Museums Director General Massimo Osanna, who has taken over as director of the Bargello Museums, has decided to extend by another three months the visit to ...
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Online UniCredit Art Collection, the new site to discover the bank's large art collection

UniCredit announces its strategy to make art accessible to all and launches the new UniCredit Art Collection website (at this link), which for the first time will open the bank's doors to the world. A collection that includes more than two hundred wo...
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