Centenary of the rebuilding of the St. Mark’s Bell Tower

April 23rd, 2012

sm bell For the centenary of the rebuilding of the St. Mark’s Bell Tower, Tuesday April 24, at the Goldoni’s Theatre, will be show on stage a spetacle titled “How and Where! Scenic remembrance by Enrico Ricciardi“.

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Vollard: the dealer who discovered Picasso

April 13th, 2012

picasso2This is a first time for Italy! At the Venetian Institute of Science and Art (Palazzo Franchetti) 150 operas will tell the relationship between Ambroise Vollard (an Art Dealer who discovered Picasso) and Pablo Picasso.

Vollard (1866 – 1939) was a pioneer in Europe between art dealers, he had an essential role in the development of the modern art until the first decades of the XX century. For example he organized the first personal exposition of Paul Cézanne in 1895.

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XIV Art Week

April 13th, 2012

lanostrasettimana2012The XIV Art Week will start tomorrow 14 April 2012. Until the 22nd April the entrance all the State’s Museum, Archeological Sites, Monuments, Mansions and Public Libraries will be FREE OF CHARGE!!!
And in this days this is a quite surprising new here in Italy.

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Artisti in Vetrina 2012

April 12th, 2012

artistiinvetrinaWhat a nice new idea: it will be possible to shop Venice in a new way! In 70 shops all over the city center you will have the chance to admire different operas from local and international artistist, just beside the goods that you will (probably!) buy.

This new event, “Artisti in Vetrina 2012“, is promoted by the Deutsch-Italian cultural association, the international group TheSeven, Confesercenti and the city hall administration.

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Gustav Klimt at Correr Museum

April 12th, 2012

klimt Gustav Klimt comes again in Venice!!! This exhibition held in Correr Museum in Piazza San Marco it’s an occasion to celebrate is 150 Anniversary of the artist’s Birth (1862 – 2012).
Also is about 100 years far from his first participation to Venice’s Biennale (1910). “Gustav Klimt in the sign of Hoffmann and the Secession” (this is the title choosed for this venetian event) has the pourpose to introduce the visitorat the evolution of Klimt’s architecture and painting with an incredible cycle of drawings, painting, furnituress and jewelry.

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“I, you, him, her”

March 9th, 2012

io-tu-lui-lei-_-manifestoI, you, him, her” is a very particular exhibition: the history and memories of the life of gay and lesbian during the 30’s and 40’s in Venice. Six young Italian artists tried to translate in art the desires, and the memories and the difficulties of a group of people born in Venice during that period.

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Spring at Palazzo Fortuny: Diana Vreeland. After Diana Vreeland

March 9th, 2012

diana-2From 10th of March to 25th of June 2012, at Palazzo Fortuny, you will have the chance to admire the first and unique exhibition dedicated to Diana Vreeland (Paris 1903-New York 1989).
The exhibition explore her complex figure and career, starting from the years at “Harper’s Bazaar” and “Vogue” and then in her role as Special Consultant for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and try to offer a new approach to her style and thinking.

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Charity concert to save the “Dome of Creation”

February 21st, 2012

Image42Saturday, January 28th 2012, by Saint’ Mark’ s Church, will take place a concert dedicated to the project financing “Sulle ali degli Angeli“, for the restoration of  one of the  mosaics in the Basilica.

 

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Gennaro Favai – Visions and Horizons 1879-1958.

February 20th, 2012

Gennaro-Favai-258The venetian  Gennaro Favai (1879-1958), a creative and complex Artist, an entire exposition dedicated to him, with more than 200 operas, including paintings, drawings, watercolours and etchings, that shown his complex spirit and the nostalgic side of his paintings, for his beloved city Venice, and for his particular views.

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The Rowing of Silence

February 20th, 2012

DSC_9289With this event, ”the Rowing of Silence“, the Venice Carnival comes to an end. Tuesday, February 21 a silent procession of gondolas, which, starting from the Rialto Bridge, will  reach the basin of San Marco, a candlelight.

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