Finally after Paris and New York the great exhibition about the links between Serenissima and Islam arrives in Venice. The relationship is recounted through the display of marvellous and sophisticated object d’art – from paintings to glass, porcelain and metal, textiles and printed materials – (...)

At half of the sixteenth century, the Senate of the Serenissima Republic had planned to remove the by that time damaged fresco “Incoronation of the Virgin”, painted in the year 1367 for the Major Council hall, and to replace it with a new work of art (a canvas this time) by a famous contemporary (...)

To reconstruct the Venice series seemed impossible; they are eleven paintings of 150 cm x 150) by Lucio Fontana exhibited together just in two occasions, both dating back to the far 1961. The first time was between July and October in Venice, at Palazzo Grassi, during the exhibition “Art and (...)

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, (...)

The Museo Diocesano offers an unique occasion: that of admiring works of art which are normally not accessible to the public. Indeed they took advantage of the temporary closing of the Palazzo Patriarcale due to restoration works to exhibit its paintings. The core of the exhibition is the (...)

Original drawings, letters, musical notations, studies, sketches; diverse materials testify the longlasting and prolific association of projects and ideas that existed between the Venetian composer Luigi Nono and the painter Emilio Vedova. After a first stop in Rome, hosted at the Santa Cecilia (...)