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Art Bonus 2025: City of Spoleto and AMA Calabria win, more than 106 thousand total votes

The City of Spoleto and theArtistic Manifestations Association (AMA) Calabria are the winners of the ninth edition of the Art Bonus Competition, promoted by the Ministry of Culture with ALES in collaboration with Promo PA Foundation. The competition,...
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Florence, the Salone di Donatello at the Bargello reopens after a year with a new layout

The Salone di Donatello, the beating heart of the Bargello National Museum in Florence, reopens to the public today after nearly a year of restoration and refitting work. At 18 meters high and covering an area of 445 square meters, this monumental sp...
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Florence, citizens protest during Tourism Forum against city sold out to luxury

While the International Forum on Italian Tourism 2025 opened at the Villa Vittoria in Florence this morning, with the participation of Minister Daniela Santanchè, a protest was taking place in the city. A group of citizens from the Salviamo Fi...
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Florence Antiques Biennale, Bruno Botticelli is the new secretary general. Fabrizio Moretti resigns

After five editions, Fabrizio Moretti is stepping down from his position as Secretary General of BIAF, Florence's Biennale Internazionale dell'Antiquariato, a role he held since 2014. Taking his place will be Bruno Botticelli, renowned second-generat...
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Milan Cortina 2026 flashlights unveiled: symbols of design, innovation and sustainability

Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics flashlights unveiled this morning: the flashlights of the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games were unveiled simultaneously in two emblematic settings, at the Milan Triennale andExpo 2025 in Osaka, Japan....
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Art Bonus 2025: Click Day on Tuesday, April 15. Social finals kick off with the 30 top-rated projects

With the official end of online voting on the www.artbonus.gov.it portal , the first phase of the Art Bonus 2025 Competition, a competition that for years has rewarded the commitment of citizens and patrons to the protection of cultural heritage and ...
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Longchamp and Pierre Renart: signature design at Milan Design Week

Longchamp and Pierre Renart sign an exclusive collaboration to be unveiled at Milan Design Week, the world's largest event dedicated to design, scheduled for April 7-13, 2025. For French designer Renart, famous for his flowing and enveloping wood cre...
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Miradolo Castle Park reborn: 200-year-old project unveiled by Xavier Kurten

On Saturday, April 19, 2025, at 11 a.m., the new tour of the historic park of Miradolo Castle (San Secondo di Pinerolo, Turin) will be officially inaugurated, a place that, after a long process of research and restoration, now rediscovers the origina...
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Art historians eligible but not hired: 274 professionals stalled after MiC competition

In December 2023, after passing two selection tests for a competition announced by the Ministry of Culture, 274 art historians found themselves in a paradoxical situation: eligible, but still not hired. The public selection, aimed at recruiting 518 f...
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US, attorneys general of 21 states sue Trump over dismantling of museum board

In the United States, attorneys general from as many as twenty-one states have sued President Donald Trump and other officials in his administration over the dismantling of a number of federal agencies, including theInstitute of Museum and Library Se...
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Charges filed against former minister Gennaro Sangiuliano

The Ministers' Court has dismissed charges of embezzlement and disclosure of official secrets against former culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano. The file had been forwarded to the Tribunal of Ministers by the Rome prosecutor's office following a co...
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Opera Laboratories is awarded hospitality services for the Santa Maria del Fiore complex

An agreement between theOpera di Santa Maria del Fiore and Opera Laboratori was signed in early April in Florence. The agreement assigns to the latter the management of a series of services that are fundamental to the daily operation of one of the mo...
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Qatar entrusts Lina Ghotmeh with new pavilion at the Giardini of the Venice Biennale

Architect Lina Ghotmeh (Beirut, 1980) is the artist selected to shape the new Qatar Pavilion at the Giardini of the Venice Biennale. The announcement was made on April 8, 2025 by Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Chairman of Qatar M...
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Anci and Ales together to promote Art Bonus and enhance Italian cultural heritage

A memorandum of understanding that strengthens collaboration between public bodies and companies in the cultural sector, with a specific goal: to enhance the national artistic heritage and boost the use of theArt Bonus. This is what was signed today ...
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London, National Gallery offers a visitor a chance to sleep in the museum

For the first time in its more than two centuries of history, the National Gallery in London will offer a visitor the opportunity to spend a night inside the museum, surrounded by some of the greatest masterpieces of Western art. The event, scheduled...
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UK royals Charles and Camilla visit Colosseum Park with Minister Giuli and Alberto Angela

Visit to Rome for the UK Royals: yesterday, April 8, His Majesty King Charles III and Queen Camilla visited the Colosseum Archaeological Park, welcomed by Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli and Park Director Alfonsina Russo. Before starting the tour, ...
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