Venice - Finestre sull'Arte

Giorgio Cini Foundation inaugurates residency program for creatives and experts in new technologies

For the first time, the Giorgio Cini Foundation is inaugurating a residency program dedicated to creatives and professionals in new technologies. The initiative aims to explore the narrative and expressive possibilities offered by the reuse of the Gi...
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New space opens in Murano dedicated to contemporary art dialoguing with glass

In Murano, the new Barovier&Toso ARTE gallery dedicated to contemporary artists who use glass as an artistic medium will open on Feb. 12 at 6 p.m. In fact, the project focuses on contemporary artworks made of glass, which thus becomes not only a ...
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Sebastiano del Piombo, the musician painter of the Renaissance: a monumental book on his career

Eclectic, ambitious, refined: let's talk about Sebastiano Luciani (Venice, 1485 - Rome, 1547), better known as Sebastiano del Piombo, among the most versatile and original artists of 16th-century Venice. And it is Sebastiano's art that is the focus o...
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Peggy Guggenheim Collection, over 388,000 visitors in 2024. And in 2025, an exhibition of Lucio Fontana's ceramics.

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice recorded more than 388,000 admissions during its 313 days of operation in 2024, with a daily average of 1,240 visitors: 75 percent from abroad and 25 percent from Italy. Added to these are more than 6,000 peo...
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Koyo Kouoh will be the curator of the Venice Biennale 2026

The curator of the Venice Biennale 2026 has been appointed: she is Koyo Kouoh (Cameroon, 1967). Indeed, the new Director of the Visual Arts Sector, appointed at the proposal of Biennale President Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, will be in charge of curating...
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Canaletto, Van Wittel and Bellotto: masterpieces of vedutismo on display in Cuneo

From November 30, 2024 to March 30, 2025, the Complesso Monumentale di San Francesco in Cuneo will host an exhibition dedicated to 18th-century vedutismo: it's Canaletto, Van Wittel, Bellotto. The Grand Theater of Cities, organized by Fondazione CRC ...
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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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The Fondaco dei Tedeschi, history and transformations of a symbol of Venice

The Fondaco dei Tedeschi, a building of thirteenth-century origins overlooking the Grand Canal, next to the Rialto Bridge, stands at one of the nerve centers of central Venice, and is not only an architectural masterpiece and a symbol of the Sereniss...
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