Tag: Museums and Exhibits
Ai Weiwei’s ‘Libero’ at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence
Ai Weiwei is one of the best and most provocative artists working in the world today. Now Italians and visitors to Italy will have a chance to see the Chinese artists’s works up close in an exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence.
CAMERA: Turin’s New Photography Museum
Turin has added another destination to Italy’s contemporary art scene. CAMERA, the Centro Italiano per la Fotografia will showcase Italian and international photography in a 2,000 square meter space just down the road from the Museo Nazionale del Cinema and other sights in Torino’s historic center.
No Bull: Italy Has a Museum Devoted to Sh*t
Emilia-Romagna’s Shit Museum explores man’s relationship to manure.
From Veronese to Futurism: Italian Art in the NYRB
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.
The Art of Nobel Winner Dario Fo
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 literature prize) proves he is worthy of this nickname with the new…
Longer Hours for Rome’s Municipal Museums
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 Museums (pictured), the Ara Pacis Museum,…
Abruzzo’s Beffi Triptych
The Beffi Triptych spends time in the U.S. following the devastating earthquake in Abruzzo.
Leonardo’s Notebooks Come to the U.S.
The Birmingham Museum of Art is the first museum in the U.S. to exhibit the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci.
