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Guide not to miss the day (and night) of the museum this Saturday

This Saturday, like every year since 1977, will be celebrated International Museum Day, launched by the International Council of Museums (ICOM). Its aim is to raise awareness that museums are an important means for cultural exchange, the enrichment of cultures, and the development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace between peoples. The event has been […]

Marisa Merz, a work in harmony with poetry

Marisa Merz, 1996 in Florence. Gianfranco Gorgoni with kind permission of Archivio Merz CRITICAL – The Turin-born Arte Povera artist used simple materials to express innovative ideas. The LaM is dedicating a retrospective to him, the first in France in thirty years. Marisa Merz, these are two small slippers made of Vair, copper wire, knitted […]

Sperrung der A13: die privilegierte Baustellenstrecke des Museums Grand Siècle

Die Sperrung der Autobahn A13 in beide Richtungen, die seit Freitag, dem 19. April, dazu führen würde, dass 130.000 Fahrzeuge pro Tag ihre optimale Route nicht mehr nutzen könnten, wäre die Folge einer Katastrophe größeren Ausmaßes. Nach unseren Informationen war die Baustelle des Grand Siècle-Museums in Saint-Cloud die Ursache für die Risse, die zu der […]

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Chu Teh-chun exhibition at the Cini Foundation on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Yvon Chu REPORT – The 60th Contemporary Art Event will showcase unique artists who step off the art streets. Special envoy to Venice Julien Creuzet, the Caribbean in the French pavilion Smiling, inscrutable face, a spectacular profile under his huge cinema […]

150 Years of Impressionism: Painting’s Outcasts Who Changed Art History | Culture

It happened 150 years ago, on April 15, 1874. In the former workshop of the photographer Nadar, in the heart of Paris, the first exhibition of the Impressionists opened its doors, although they weren’t called that yet. In reality they were pariahs of painting. Their names were Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, Cézanne, Sisley and Morisot, […]

The Museu del Prado shows the new video clip of Residente alongside Sílvia Pérez Cruz

“Un cant a la bellesa de l’efímer davant la immortalitat de l’art”, descriu el Museu del Prado per anunciar la col·laboració en el nou videoclip del raper Residente. Es tracta de la segona versió de ‘313’, cançó que interpreta al costat de Sílvia Pérez Cruz. El producte audiovisual el protagonitza la sala 12 del Museu, […]

Italo Rota, the 20th century museum’s architect, has died

With a very personal and varied creative path, the architect Italo Rota, who died in Milan at the age of 70, has proven to be one of the most interesting and diverse contemporary figures not only at the Italian but also at the international level, ranging from museum exhibitions to boutiques for the designer Roberto […]

The courage of Artemisia Gentileschi, the “Sicilian Caravaggio”: On Easter and Easter Monday, museums open in ten places from Brescia to Nuoro

The Palazzo Martinengo in Brescia, at Via dei Musei 30, remains open also on Easter Sunday and Easter Monday (from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m; Full ticket: 15.50 euros; Information about: amicimartinengo.it) with its large exhibition on the subject The macchiaioli (until June 9th) curated by Francesca Dini and Davide Dotti and organized by the […]

Comic(On)Off returns to Naples, pop culture also in museums

AGI – A peaceful and entertaining invasion of Naples that brings the art of comics to unusual places such as the Capodimonte Museum, the Pio Monte della Misericordia, the Darwin Dohrn Museum and the Palazzo Cavalcanti. Comic(On)Off returns from April 4th to June 11th, the international comics and pop culture event promoted and financed by […]

Enric Franch, design between everyday life and culture | Culture

Last night we left Enric Franch, an important reference in the world of design, intellectual and at the same time creative, although unfortunately little known due to his introspective nature. He was born in Barcelona in 1943 and graduated from the Barcelona School of Social Sciences. In 1968 he began his activity as an industrial […]