The presentation of the annual report on cultural production in Venice has become quite a significant event. Professionals use the information as a valuable tool, allowing them to evaluate their activity in relation to the city’s cultural landscape. The rest of the community relies on the report (...)

Correct, committed, well displayed, enjoyable, but not extremely emotionally involving. This is in short the final judgment on the 52nd International Art Exhibition, now on show at “Giardini” in Castello and in Venice’s “Arsenale” until November the 21st. This Biennial was curated by Robert Storr, (...)

The title, Sargent and Venice, purposefully suggests the title of the previous fortunate exhibition “Turner and Venice”, that was held at the Museo Correr as well. The content is also similar, in fact it displays the drawings of a great artist portraying the historical center and the most (...)

Saturday 17th of February the countess Teresa Foscari Foscolo died in her palace of San Samuele in Venice, at the age of 91; she was a woman to whom Venice, as the mayor Massimo Cacciari said “..must be very grateful, for the strong and passionate work she has done for the defense and safeguard (...)

“The human figure is the stage for the fight between psychological impulses and physical weightiness, the way in which this fight is carried out and constantly renewed determines the style representing the individual and the types”. This observation of the philosopher Georg Simmel (1858-1918), (...)

To find back the joy of living after the tragedy of World War II: it is the return to an explosive creativity what marks the happy years of Pablo Picasso, going from1945 to 1948. “La joie de vivre” is the title of the most emblematic work of this period and also of the exhibition now open at (...)

To reach the aim of the ten years is not an easy goal in a country where cultural goods represent an undeniable resource at words, but in reality they are treated as a Cinderella in the already poor national budget, that is not in a good condition. The tenth Fair on Cultural Goods and (...)

"I like all images related to water and places penetrated by water: Venice is the most beautiful example. To come back here after twenty years is still more touching, in these days, with this light. Today I woke up at 5 in the morning and I went for a long walk” Brian Eno smiles relaxed, he is (...)