Egypt, monumental entrance to an ancient Ptolemaic temple discovered

In Egypt, at Athribis, a village near Sohag, not far from Cairo, archaeologists from theUniversity of Tübingen and the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities have made an exceptional discovery: excavations have in fact uncovered the entrance t...
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The restored Retable of the Magi, a Belgian Renaissance masterpiece, on display at the Diocesan Museum in Milan

From November 28, 2024 to February 2, 2025, the Retable of the Magi, a monumental masterpiece of Belgian Renaissance sculpture (212 x 170 cm), will be on display at the Diocesan Museum in Milan. Usually kept in the church of Santi Apostoli e Nazaro M...
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Bernini's genius and shadows come to theater: Ravenna debut for play about artist

From Dec. 3 to 15, 2024, Ravenna's Teatro Rasi will host the premiere of Letterea Bernini, the new work by Marco Martinelli, director, playwright and co-founder of the Albe together with Ermanna Montanari (who is also co-writer of the show), produce...
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Auctions from Nov. 27 to Dec. 3: antique paintings, wines and design

We greet November and welcome December with the best auctions from Nov. 27 to Dec. 3. Four auctions at Pandolfini: from Nov. 28 to Dec. 10 there is SmartWine 2.0 | Christmas Edition; from Nov. 29 to Dec. 12 there will be Les Esprits de France; from ...
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Gerhard Richter at the Gagosian in Rome with an immersive installation celebrating the case

An immersive and monumental installation by Gerhard Richter (Dresden, 1932) for the first time in a gallery: it happens at the Gagosian venue in Rome, which from Dec. 6, 2024 to Feb. 1, 2025 hosts Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version (2019-24), a syn...
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Raphael's Madonna of the Canopy returns to the Pitti Palace after a year's absence

After more than a year's absence, the Madonna del Baldacchino, one of Raphael Sanzio 's (Urbino, 1483 - Rome, 1520) masterpieces, returns to its Florentine home in the Pitti Palace. The imposing altarpiece, which measures 280x216 cm in its current co...
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The Snow Labyrinth of Chamois, a work of Land Art in the most unspoiled Aosta Valley

Every year, the charming village of Chamois in the Aosta Valley, the only municipality in the Alps (and probably in all of Italy) that cannot be reached by car and where cars do not pass, is transformed into a natural theater for the Snow Labyrinth t...
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At auction at Sotheby's is the Giordano Collection, one of the most important existing collections of decorative arts

A significant part of Gianni Giordano's sumptuous collection, one of the most important existing collections of decorative arts, will be dispersed between today and tomorrow, November 26 and 27, 2024, in anauction at Sotheby 's in Paris. A collection...
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Rome, Museo del Corso opens, a new cultural hub in the heart of the capital

A new cultural hub comes to life in the heart of Rome, enriching the capital's artistic offerings. In fact, today opens the Museo del Corso - Museum Pole, a project strongly desired by the Fondazione Roma, which was born from the merger of two histor...
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Marc Chagall's White Crucifixion exhibited for the first time in Italy, in Rome

Marc Chagall's White Crucifixion, from theArt Institute of Chicago, arrives in Italy for the first time: in fact, it will be exhibited from November 27, 2024 to January 27, 2025 at the Nuovo Museo del Corso - Polo museale, in the Palazzo Cipolla buil...
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Anghe Egyptians were getting high: traces of psychotropic substances found in an ancient vase

For the first time, researchers have found direct evidence of the use of psychotropic substances in ancient Egyptian spiritual rituals. The discovery, which is based on a series of advanced scientific analyses, offers new and concrete evidence regard...
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Disconcerting: one in three female archaeologists has been abused in the workplace

Yesterday, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, theNational Association of Archaeologists (ANA) released data from a survey that captures the prevalence of gender discrimination and abuse in the fiel...
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Venice Biennale 2024 closes with 700,000 visitors

It closed on Sunday, November 24, 2024, the 60th Venice Biennale, entitled Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere (our review here). Curated by Adriano Pedrosa, the edition recorded 700,000 tickets sold, marking an 18 percent increase over 2019 an...
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In Livorno, an exhibition dedicated to Anna Franchi, the woman who launched the Macchiaioli movement

From Nov. 28 to Dec. 7, 2024, the city of Livorno will pay tribute to Anna Franchi (1867-1954), the great art critic who had the merit of being among the first to support the Macchiaioli movement and to intuit its importance (read here a long in-dept...
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Florence, Palazzo Vecchio opens rooms usually inaccessible to the public with free guided tours

In Florence, Palazzo Vecchio opens its doors to rooms usually inaccessible to the public: seven free guided tours from December to June to discover, thanks to the collaboration with theAssociation of Friends of Florentine Museums and Monuments, the h...
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Working with art and culture: jobs and open positions of the week

As every week, the column on job opportunities in the arts and culture sector returns. Here are the proposals from fashion houses, communication agencies and Italian municipalities. Below are the open positions collected from November 18 to 25, 2024....
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Eleven artist chandeliers make St. Mark's Square shine for Murano lights up the world

The new Murano Illuminates the World artist chandeliers will light up, from Nov. 22, 2024 to March 4, 2025, under the Procuratie Vecchie in St. Mark's Square. Eleven internationally renowned artists, including Joseph Kosuth, Kengo Kuma, and Philippe ...
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Journey through the Medici fortresses of Romagna

A journey through a land where history has shaped every stone, every tower, every village, in the heart of Romagna and particularly of Tuscan Romagna. Thehinterland of Romagna is marked by the presence of several Medici fortresses: in Renaissance ti...
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A complete body of Omar Galliani's graphic works exhibited for the first time in Città di Castello

From Dec. 7, 2024 to Feb. 7, 2025, the Città di Castello (Perugia) Gallery of the Arts will host Di Segno in Segno, a solo exhibition by Omar Galliani, with a critical text by Lorenzo Fiorucci, produced under the patronage of the City of Citt&...
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10 questions and answers to understand Cattelan's Comedian: why a banana is a work of art

Fortissimo is the uproar aroused these days by Comedian, the work by Maurizio Cattelan initially presented in 2019 at Art Basel Miami at the booth of Perrotin, Cattelan's gallerist: the work was in fact sold at auction by Sotheby 's in New York for t...
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On La7's "Proserpina and the Others," a documentary about violence against women in art

On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, tomorrow, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024, La7 will broadcast in world premiere at 11:30 p.m. the documentary Proserpina e le altre, written and directed by Mariangela Barb...
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Villa Pisani in Stra hosts a retrospective dedicated to photographer Giorgio Cutini

From December 13, 2024 to March 16, 2025, the exhibition halls of Villa Pisani in Stra (Venice) will host the exhibition Cutini. Song of the Seasons, a retrospective dedicated to Perugian photographer Giorgio Cutini, curated by Francesco Trentini. Th...
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A rare Claude Monet seascape goes up for auction: it is the only painting in winter

An important painting by Claude Monet (Paris, 1840 - Giverny, 1926), Mer agitée à Pourville, goes up for auction at Lempertz in Cologne on Nov. 29: executed in 1882, it is Monet's only beach scene depicting the Normandy landscape during...
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An exhibition at the Gallerie d'Italia recounts Milan as a crossroads of the arts, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century

From November 23, 2024 to March 16, 2025, the Gallerie d'Italia in Milan will host the exhibition The Genius of Milan. Crossroads of the Arts from the Fabbrica del Duomo to the Twentieth Century, an exhibition that chronicles Milan's role as a center...
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Art on TV from Nov. 25 to Dec. 1: Schiele, Hopper and the Uffizi

November is drawing to a close. Let us, therefore, take a look at the best TV programs dedicated to art at the end of the month. On Rai 3 on Wednesday, November 27 at 7:23 p.m. will be broadcast The Hands of Art. On Thursday 28 at 7:21 p.m. we will ...
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