Palazzo Grassi reopens under the new administration by Pinault, with an exhibition called “Where are we going?"
Monday 15 May 2006
The sign of the exhibition, put on the outside of the building on theGrand Canal, is a huge red dog-shaped puppet. It is by the American Jeff Koons, one of the most sensational “phenomena” of the international art market, together with the English Damien Hirst and the Italian Maurizio Cattelan, (...)
Thursday 9 June 2005
The initiative promoted by MyVenice through the questionnaire about the different futures hoped for Palazzo Grassi gained a significative success, even with regard to the news represented by the means that has been used (a questionnaire accessible through the website’s pages, with the (...)
The decision is delayed to 29 April
Monday 2 May 2005
A palace looking on the Grand Canal, independently from the flow of his single destiny, appears as a concentration of the city’s history; it can tell the city’s layers by simply being there. It is always a hint and a sign of visibility, of a hardly obtained belonging; it is a status symbol for (...)
Tuesday 26 April 2005
Myvenice.org was born with the exact aim, represented by a group of scholars and entrepreneurs which joined into the Venice Foundation 2000, to build a community of virtual citizens of Venice. In the first number of the newsletter of the year 2004, they explicitly wrote about the will to start (...)