Curated  by Guido Beltramini, Davide Gasparotto and Giulio Manieri Elia, the exhibition highlights the contribution and influence of Classics on the birth of European culture and Venetian Renaissance by drawing a parallelism between the works by Manuzio, a great printer and humanist, and masterpieces by Giorgione, Tiziano, Bellini and Cima da Conegliano. The exhibition is […]

The European Artistic Crafts Days event is devoted to the arts and crafts of excellence and is promoted in France by the INMA-Institut National des Metiers d’Art of Paris and in Italy by Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte  of Milan and  OMA together with  Artex of Florence. The event, now in its tenth year, has […]

A project curated by Marco Tonelli, organized by Fondazione Montelupo ONLUS and supported by the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art of Prato, within the Cantiere Toscana Contemporanea event promoted by Regione Toscana. Palazzo Podestarile hosts a historical exhibition describing the legacy of Leoncillo and his relationship with sculptors Giuseppe Spagnulo, Luigi Mainolfi, Giacinto Cerone […]

The book by Francesca Fedeli (Edifir Editions), which describes the delicate restoration works on the wooden choir of the Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Perugia, made by Florentine artists Giuliano da Maiano and Domenico del Tasso between 1481 and 1491 and heavily damaged by a fire in 1985, will be introduced on April 7, 2016, […]

A series of special exhibitions inspired by medieval artisan workshops. The Beaux Arts Gallery, a creative workshop in the heart of downtown Siena where skilled artisans have been making frames by using the gouache gilding technique for over forty years, now makes room for contemporary art by hosting exhibitions open to the public. Eight contemporary […]

With foreword by Michele De Lucchi and introduction by Marco Romanelli, this bilingual book contains original documents from the Gastone Rinaldi Archives. Gastone Rinaldi was a famous and highly creative designer from Padua, a dear friend and collaborator of Ponti, Zanuso, De Lucchi, Mollino, Gardella, the leading names of Italian design. In addition to his […]

The Umbria Region with the collaboration of ADI, Industrial Design Association, presents The Mark of Time: designers, ceramists, illustrators, both national and international, are invited to reinterpret the decoration of artistic Umbrian majolica in the light of contemporary aesthetic feeling. The competition is part of the Ceramica Made in Umbria project, which promotes the relaunching […]

Dopo il successo della mostra fotografica dedicata alle scuole di arti e mestieri italiane “La regola del talento” al Centro Diagnostico Italiano a Milano, la Fondazione Cologni e la Fondazione Bracco replicano il fortunato format a Palazzo Tadea di Spilimbergo, su invito del direttore della Scuola Mosaicisti del Friuli, Gian Piero Brovedani. Il 18 Marzo […]

Rich in pictures and information, this bilingual book explores the research work and works by the Italian designer from the sixties to the present day in the field of applied arts and design. Divided into sixteen chapters (ranging from Synaesthesia of the Arts to Imbalancing System, from Neo-eclecticism to Living Time, from Territorial Design to […]

Made in Cloister is a project started in Naples which aims to combine the promotion and innovation of artisan traditions and the protection of architectural heritage with the help of artists and designers. Among the many initiatives are the restoration works on the sixteenth-century frescoes of the small cloister of the church of Santa Caterina […]

On the occasion of the Milan Women’s Fashion Week, Palazzo Reale presents the exhibition The Art of Italian Bijoux. From the Dolce Vita to Prêt-à-Porter,  running from February 19 to March 2, 2016. The exhibition is curated by Alba Cappellieri and Lino Raggio and is held in Palazzo Reale’s beautiful Sale degli Arazzi. The exhibition […]

30 contemporary artists, both well-known and up-and-coming,  are on show from January 14 to March 5, 2016 at the Gagosian Gallery in Rome, with their passions, fixed ideas and eternal obsessions. The exhibition explores the artists’ process of creation step by step, from the idea and research- prototype stage to the finished work, through drawings, […]

Following the success of the first contest, Creativity Oggetti, an art gallery in Turin started in 2001 and specializing in contemporary jewelry, artistic costume jewelry and applied arts, has announced the Creativity Contest – The Posing Jewel, an international competition for jewelry designers and professional artists, with deadline on July 15, 2016. The competition focuses […]

From February 10 to March 29, 2016, the MACRO Testaccio spaces will be housing The Gold Reserve of Magmatic Thought, the solo exhibition by Italian-Persian artist Bizhan Bassiri, curated by Bruno Corà. Experimentation with different techniques, materials and languages have led Bassiri to use various materials, such as papier-mâché, bronze, steel and lava elements, and […]

Giuseppe La Spada, one of the world’s greatest contemporary digital artists, is the star of Ab Origine, a retrospective exhibition revolving around the photographer’s works inspired by water, held from February 10 to April 15, 2016, at the exhibition space Porto4 – Cultura legale d’impresa, in Venice. The exhibition showcases extraordinary large-size underwater pictures drawing […]

The exhibition, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, showcases over one hundred European and American works of art dating back to the period between 1920 and1960 from the Peggy and Solomon Guggenheim collections. With the collaboration of Palazzo Strozzi Foundation and New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the exhibition includes works by great artists such as […]

The book’s author, Marina Puricelli, tells the stories of thirty-one men and women, all under-35, who share successful artisan start-up experiences. Artisans-entrepreneurs in various fields describe their experiences in a simple and fresh way, offering a different and original approach to a theme that is usually investigated through sterile statistical data and figures.

An extraordinary book, published with the support of Cariparma Crédit Agricole and coordinated by Edoardo Pepino, explores and describes the world of artisan workshops which were known for the level of excellence they had achieved during the age of the Viscontis and Sforzas. In those days, Milan was the capital of luxury and supplier to […]

An interesting and always fresh showcase of top-quality products and services. We are talking about the 55th International Furniture Fair held at the Milan Rho fairgrounds, which attracts worldwide attention. Directly connected to the Salone del Mobile is the event “space&interiors” taking place downtown Milan, at The Mall, in the heart of the Porta Nuova […]

Over 250 extraordinary archaeological finds dating back to the period from the 5th to the 1st millennium B.C., on loan from the famous Russian museum, are on show in Cagliari. Objects of everyday use and precious gold, stone, bronze and copper artifacts are showcased alongside over 100 works coming from the Museums of Sardinia and […]