Emilia-Romagna's Shit Museum explores man's relationship to manure.

Excerpts from the Art Issue of the New York Review of Books. Reviews on Veronese, Piero della Francesca, and Futurism. There's also a Michelangelo poem.

Dario Fo's "The Earthquake in L'Aquila" Calling Italian playwright Dario Fo a "Renaissance" man would probably irk him given his long history of questioning authority and mocking the status quo. But Fo, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997 (one of six Italians to have won the ...

In an initiative to allow locals and the throngs of summer tourists more time to enjoy Rome's cultural riches, the City of Rome is keeping its municipal museums open from 8pm until 1am every Saturday through September 3. Which museums are municipal museums, you ask? They include the Capitoline ...

The Beffi Triptych spends time in the U.S. following the devastating earthquake in Abruzzo.

The Birmingham Museum of Art is the first museum in the U.S. to exhibit the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci.

The Getty Museum exhibit features 57 works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

So, you've made it all the way to Rome but wish your vacation time allowed you to visit the other UNESCO Heritage Sites in Italy? Have no fear! According to the U.K.'s Italy Magazine, an exhibit of 120 photographs of Italy's heritage sites will be on display at the Central National Library. The ...

The event of the year for 2007. Valentino exhibit features 45 years of designer fashion in Rome's newly open Ara Pacis Museum.

It's getting ever more difficult to get into the Vatican Museums. The museums, Musei Vaticani in Italian, are home to some of the world's most precious and recognizable Western art including Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. The Vatican recently raised prices for a ...