In its eleventh edition, the new “Natale SottoVetro” exhibition presented at the Museo dell’Arte Vetraria Altarese in Altare (province of Savona). This year the exhibition project is dedicated to theMemphisGroup, a design collective founded in Milan in 1980 by Ettore Sottsass. The aim of the group was to go beyond the Modernism of the 1970s, […]

An exhibition dedicated to one of the most important figures in women’s ceramics: Antonia Campi, known as “Neto” to her friends. The pieces on display come from the private collections of two passionate collectors, namely Marco Lisè and Anty Pansera, critic and historian of the applied arts, who has dedicated an important monograph to this […]

In this exhibition, one section is dedicated to the costume designer, his sources of inspiration and his creative work through videos, fabric samples and historical garments from his extraordinary personal collection, used as sources of direct inspiration for the creation of the clothes in the film. A second section includes the exhibition of more than […]

Currently on view in Naples, the exhibition Hidetoshi Nagasawa.Sotto il cielo e sopra la terra, is curated by Anna Imponente, director of the Polo museale della Campania, and realized with Paolo Mascilli Migliorini, director of Palazzo Reale, in collaboration with the Fondazione CAMUSAC-Cassino Museo D’Arte Contemporanea of Cassino directed by Bruno Corà, with the precious […]

Massimo Sansavini returns to Florence with a new research, the result of his work over the last two years centered around magic, myths, mysteries and other stories. The project, created for the Galleria del Palazzo, includes twenty-two works ranging from mosaics for the execution and restoration of ancient copies as well as for the creation […]

“A jewel serves to remind us that we dream, design, create and work because we love. And Van Cleef & Arpels, born from love and poetry, always revisit love and poetry,” as Franco Cologni writes in his book Elogio della mano, dedicated to the Maison and to the luxury jewelry trades. The Van Cleef & […]

Until January 26, at the Casina delle Civette in Rome you can visit the anthological exhibition dedicated to Roman goldsmith Maria Paola Ranfi, who skillfully shapes matter into truly precious sculptures. The exhibition presents a selection of 60 works created between the 1990s and the present day: an excursus divided into several collections, from Art […]

In 1950, Pablo Picasso sent a plate with the image of the dove of peace to the Museum of Ceramics (MIC) in Faenza, heavily damaged by the bombings of 1944. Other ceramic objects with archaic and mythological subjects followed, including the large vase (65 cm) Le quattro stagioni(The Four Seasons), decorated with sinuous female figures […]

The Ceramics Museum of Mondovì will host – until 15 March 2020 – the exhibition Le tramedi Raffaello.Il restauro dell’arazzo Madonna del Divino Amore del Museo Pontificio di Loreto(Raphael’s Weavings. The restoration of the Madonna del Divino Amore tapestry from the Pontifical Museum of Loreto) which anticipates the upcoming celebrations to be dedicated to the […]

The Ragghianti Foundation of Lucca hosts, until 6 January 2020, the exhibition Bernardo Bellotto 1740. Viaggio in Toscanathat brings together works, paintings and drawings by this 18th-century Venetian artist, many of which are unknown or rarely presented to the public. The exhibition presents paintings that document views of Tuscan cities, particularly Lucca, but also Florence […]

The Poldi Pezzoli Ateliers, artisan workshops for adults realized by the Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte in collaboration with the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan, are proposing three appointments, between November and January, during which master craftsmen will put their knowledge at the disposal of the participants, who will learn to make a small artefact. […]

The International Competition of Contemporary Ceramic Art, organized by the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza Foundation, is now in its 61st edition. This event has been an important instrument for the enhancement, promotion and renewal of ceramics from an artistic and decorative, as well as functional, point of view. The competition is open to […]

Until 24 November, the city of Ravenna is being enlivend with events, exhibitions and meetings organized for the 6th edition ofthe “Contemporary Mosaic Biennial”: many institutional sites will host site-specific installations and exhibitions, thus becoming exceptional galleries where ancient and contemporary art meet in continuous and constant dialogue. The MAR – Museo d’Arte della Città di […]

The outer volumes of the old Conterieindustrial areas in Murano, once devoted to the processing of glass beads (namely, conterie), have been carefully renovated to create an exhibition space for temporary exhibitions, InGalleria, a shop for books and magazines, a flower shop, Fioraio, but also two convivial spaces, “Vetri Ristorante” and “Vetro Bistrot.” The restoration […]

The glass objects designed by Laura de Santillana, an artist who from a very young age assimilated the art of the master glass blowers in the Venini glassworks, stand out for an evanescent elegance combined with the severity of geometric form, which becomes an abstraction of thought. The exhibition Soffi(Breaths), presented until 24 November 2019 […]

An unmissable exhibition set up on the piano nobile of the palace in Rome’s Piazza Venezia, built in the mid-seventeenth century, which was for a long time the residence of Letizia Ramolino Bonaparte, Napoleon’s mother, and is now home to the exhibition space of “Generali Valore Cultura.” A meticulous restoration has ensured the safety of the […]

This is the third edition of “Fatti ad Arte,” the event dedicated to fine artistic craftsmanship as an expression of the legacy of beauty and authenticity which, from the time of the Renaissance workshops, has encompassed art, culture and tradition. In Biella, from 25 to 27 October,in the evocative setting of Biella Piazzo, inside the […]

Ugo La Pietra has left his mark again. This time, in Apricena (in the province of Foggia), where he has created the public work “Dalle cave all’architettura“(“From quarries to architecture”) in the “Madre Pietra” Parco Museo Sculture. Set in the old town center of the Apulian city, this installation highlights the historical resources of this […]

It has reached the 14th edition of the International Lace Biennial of Cantù, the initiative that organized a new enhancement of lace, through the creation of works of art. The pieces, in fact, are unique and made by skilled artisans who worked in close contact with the creativity of the designer: a project that wants […]

On the occasion of the exhibition event in progress at the Santa Maria Novella complex until 15 December 2019, The Botany of Leonardo. A Vision of Science Bridging Art and Nature(an exhibition curated by Curators Fritjof Capra, Stefano Mancuso, Valentino Mercati and promoted by the Municipality of Florence, conceived and produced by Aboca with the […]