The Scuderie di Palazzo Moroni is hosting the exhibition 30per10, arte ceramica contemporanea (30for10, contemporary ceramic art). Through a three-dimensional language artists from various backgrounds interpret the concept of space proper to the fourteenth-century frescoes, located in eight city buildings of “Padova urbs picta,” which, since 2021, are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. […]

The Artemisia and Fleuraisons baroques exhibitions, as part of the Nice Biennial of Arts, have as their theme flowers that evoke botanical elements, mythological and pictorial themes. Artemisia presents a selection of works by artist Eve Pietruschi, whose ceramic sculptures and installations are inspired by the plant that grows wild and on the edge of […]

The Ancient Vases exhibition presents a collection of about 80 pre-Roman ceramics made between the 7th and 4th centuries B.C. that are not usually on public display. Beyond the excitement of admiring objects made, more than 2,500 years ago, it is surprising to observe the craftsmanship and execution technique of those artifacts. For singular beauty […]

“Kindness and Sustainability” is the project Artigianato e Palazzo asked Irene Ivoi, a designer specializing in nudge design, circular strategy, waste prevention, green public procuerement orientation, and sustainability, to carry out. envisioning a guided invitation that orients people to act according to the principles of a circular economy. The project involved the creation of a […]

Photos, stories, and trivia about the trainees of the project “Una Scuola, un Lavoro. Percorsi di Eccellenza” (One School, One Job. Paths of Excellence) 2021/22 are now online at unascuolaunlavoro.it. From Piedmont to Sicily, from Friuli Venezia Giulia to Sardinia, all along the peninsula young artisans are honing their talents in workshops that carry on […]

Until the end of July Le Stanze del Vetro, on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, are hosting the exhibition FontanaArte. House of Glass through the work of four artistic directors, Gio Ponti, Pietro Chiesa, Max Ingrand and Gae Aulenti, who, over more than 60 years, have left an indelible mark on glass […]

Oscar Ghiglia (1876-1945), a painter from Livorno but a Florentine by training, has been the subject of a gradual critical reappraisal in recent years. The exhibition Oscar Ghiglia: The Years of the Novecento Italiano at Medici Riccardi Palace in Florence, through more than fifty works from private and public collections, highlights the pictorial refinement traceable […]

The exhibition Dear Joe Colombo, you taught us about the future under way in Milan at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna Gam, illustrates the creative journey of the designer (1930-1971) through objects, which even today, so many years later, are surprising for their modernity, inventiveness but also for their respect for the skill of artisans able […]

The fifth edition of the “Artigiano del Cuore” contest, promoted by Fondazione Cologni and the Wellmade platform, is about to start. This year, the contest is aimed at artisans and workshops that carry on a tradition linked to their local area, understood as the place where the business is based, or the place of origin […]

Stefano Bertoli’s family with Fondazione Cologni and Fondazione Pro Canale have issued an announcement for young luthiers under 35 for the allocation of two co-working spaces at the Stefano Bertoli Violinmaking Workshop. The workshop was opened in 2017 by Stefano Bertoli with the aim of undertaking the activity and sharing the space with other young […]

The young beneficiaries of the AD HOC project enjoyed the opportunity to measure themselves against an ancient and poetic art: that of Japanese origami! Under the careful and expert guidance of paper teacher Luisa Canovi, the children were able to try their hand and dexterity, having a lot of fun. In origami, in fact, the […]

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth, the Scanavino archive presents the exhibition Emilio Scanavino. This is Tomorrow and simultaneously inaugurates the new location. More than 60 works in glazed terracotta, as well as polychrome majolica, created by the Genoese artist between 1950 and 1970 at Manifattura Mazzotti in Albisola, a meeting place […]

The XIV volume of the magazine Quaderni dell’Associazione Amici di Doccia Quaderni presented in Florence on March 28, 2022 in the Library of Michelozzo in the Convent of San Marco in Florence, is dedicated to Ginori porcelain preserved in the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan and the Correale di Terranova Museum in Sorrento. On that […]

The call for proposals promoted by Fondazione Italia Patria della Bellezza is now in its second edition in 2022. An award in support of cultural projects of various kinds throughout Italy, to accompany and support them in communicating beauty, understood in its broadest and most universal sense: art, tourism, history, landscape care, creativity and design, […]

From April 10 to May 1, Homo Faber is back in Venice! This year’s theme is the relationship between Italy and Japan: the exhibition aims to show how for centuries these traditions, so distant geographically, are actually very close in culture and know-how. This year it will be possible not only to visit the 15 […]

The wonder behind every creative act, the amazement generated by the beauty of gesture and workmanship, the combination of applied arts and performing arts explain the concept and meaning of Prodigio. Mestieri d’Arte e Performance, the exhibition that puts the applied arts in dialogue with other forms of expression, combining the mastery of craftsmanship with […]

The exhibition The Walls of Wonders. Court exchanges between the Gonzagas and Europe, opens the exhibition year 2022 Mantova: l’Arte di vivere, and was inaugurated a few days ago at Palazzo Te. It presents rare decorative apparatuses made of leather which, from the 14th to the 16th century, covered the walls of court palaces to […]

The exhibition Donatello and the Renaissance, which has just been inaugurated in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi and at the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, analyzes the artist’s entire oeuvre in a chronologically broad historical and artistic context, which highlights the references to antiquity and medieval art. Moreover, Donatello, assisted by a lively workshop, paid particular attention […]

Venice is a city built on craftsmanship, and its charm also lies in the workshops and small businesses of savoir faire hidden in the city’s alleys. With this edition of the Homo Faber Event, visitors can experience the lagoon city in a different way with Homo Faber in the City, an immersion into all of […]

To allow the widest participation in the Starhotels La Grande Bellezza Award – second edition, we are pleased to inform you of the extension until March 31, 2022 for the submission of entries to the Competition Secretariat. “The Beauty of Nature” is the new, fascinating theme of the biennial Prize: participants are invited to submit […]