Miscellaneous

Happy Easter with eggs--artistic eggs by Warhol, Lichtenstein, Klimt and Haring

Celebrating Easter in an original way with painted eggs inspired by the masterpieces of some big names in art: this is the idea of Bella Manu, a Canadian creative who on her web space, ArtClubBlog, spreads tutorials for creating decorations, DIY...
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David Bowie liked Picasso

If you find yourself discussing rock with someone who has sufficient musical culture and at the same time a certain intolerance of stars, you will most likely hear that David Bowie was not a genius because he did not invent anything. Because the ...
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Discounts, freebies and reduced admission to Leonardo exhibition in Milan with Skira and Finestre Sull'Arte

Skira and Finestre Sull'Arte together again to close "with a bang" the great Leonardo da Vinci exhibition in Milan, which will end on July 19, so in less than two weeks! Together with Skira we have come up with an interesting range of discounts and e...
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Free to the exhibition Arte Lombarda dai Visconti agli Sforza with Finestre sull'Arte and Skira

In collaboration with Skira we are pleased to launch a promotion intended for all the friends of Finestre sull'Arte: through the coupon you can find here, on this page, you can in fact buy two tickets at the price of one for the beautiful exhibit...
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A Love Called Sistine

We very gladly receive and publish this story, which came to us from one of our fans, Riccardo Tomasello, from Catania, Italy: a beautiful narrative about what one can experience when admiring one of the world's greatest masterpieces of art history...
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Introducing the automatic title generator of Goldinian exhibitions :-)

The indefatigable exhibition curator Marco Goldin has now become a prominent figure on the Italian art scene. Not a day goes by that we don't hear about him: exhibitions, conferences, presentations, meetings, clashes, articles in newspapers. Who know...
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How to work in museums: useful hints for finding a museum job

One of the questions we are asked most often is, how can I work in a museum? The question does not have a simple answer, because it basically depends on the type of museum to which you aspire. We are therefore publishing a small, quick guide that we ...
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Social participation in a museum

How important is it to bring social issues into a museum's programs? We find out with this interesting article written by Sara Valverde and published in Descubrir el arte. Here is the link to the original. I translated it for you! Enjoy reading :) ...
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#26reasonstomakeart: if you are an artist and want to put yourself out there, take a look!

How many reasons do you know for making art? So many, certainly. Maybe even more than we give you, but we want to focus on the number we are proposing, and that is: twenty-six. So: we give you #26reasonstomakeart. And #26motivestomakeart is the t...
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Art Everywhere: public spaces open up to art

A very special project conceived and created in the United States to open public spaces to art: Art Everywhere US. He tells us about it in this article Cultura Colectiva, an interesting website from Latin America, specifically Mexico.Here is the ...
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How to communicate culture online: a free ebook to download, useful and comprehensive

A very useful ebook is finally online that will be of great help to all those who do cultural communication online, with a focus on museums. The newly released ebook is titled Communicating culture online: a practical guide for museums, was created a...
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"The Great Beauty" by Paolo Sorrentino: a possible reading itinerary between contemporary and ancient art

One of the most interesting scenes in Paolo Sorrentino's film La Grande Bellezza, which just a few days ago won a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination, presents itself to the viewer about a quarter of an hour after it begins. It is an artistic perfor...
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Art bingo

Since it is Sunday and we are now almost in the Christmas mood, we bring you the game of the winter: art bingo. Do you know how to play bingo? It works the same way: only instead of filling the folder with numbers, we put in the most trite and widesp...
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Thinking at the Museum: the story of Rosita | Stories of youth and culture

Today's protagonist of Stories of Youth and Culture is Rosita Cacciali, she is from Roccabianca (in the province of Parma), and she calls herself "the soul" of "Il Mondo Piccolo" Museum, a museum dedicated to the Parma plain between the 19th and ...
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Creating a cultural center for exposure and knowledge: Stefania's story | Stories of youth and culture

The appointment with our Stories of Youth and Culture initiative opens with the story of Stefania Lorandi, a young South Tyrolean woman who, together with two partners, wanted to create almost from nothing a cultural center consisting of a museum wit...
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Stories of youth and culture

In the coming days, the Finestre Sull'Arte blog will feature posts that are part of an initiative we have called Stories of Youth and Culture. Culture, in our country, is made up of many gears, and often many of these gears are not talked about: but ...
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