10843 List of current art exhibitions, Nov 2008

Seems a little superficial and lacking in detail, also no links. This one contains much more useful information... [url=http://www.italymag.co.uk/italy/arts-culture]Arts and Culture | Italy Magazine[/url]

Not so sure barn_elms. It isn't a list as such. Perhaps an alternative is to Google whatever city's website. Some of the main cities like Rome also have tourist websites. Additionally here is The Italian Tourist Board website in English which I see has been redesigned. - [url=http://www.italiantourism.com]ITALY - Tourism in Italy, travel tips, information, italian regions[/url] Loads of event listed.

Sally, the excellent Arts and Culture page of the magazine that hosts this forum has 23 lists of exhibitions, festivals, events and other cultural information which you can access by using the link I posted and then selecting each successive list in turn.
But of course you are right we should all Google much more often.:dull:

Sorry am I missing something here??? All I see is a list of events but they are interspersed with news items like tenors dying. So a laborious effort is involved. Better to list events under their respective locations I think. Keep the news items separate.

As for you last remark I refer you to - [url]http://www.italymag.co.uk/forums/italy-magazine-forums-announcements-queries/10841-civility.html[/url]

Thanks to ANSA

ANSA) - Rome, November 21 - The following is a city-by-city guide to some of Italy's top art exhibitions:

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BOLOGNA - Pinacoteca Nazionale: Amico Aspertini (1474-1552), A Bizarre Artist in the Age of Durer and Raphael; until January 26.

BRESCIA - Museo di Santa Giulia: Van Gogh, Masterpieces from the Kroeller-Mueller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands; until January 25.

CORTONA - Etruscan Academy Museum (MAEC): 30 masterpieces of Etruscan art from Russia's Hermitage museum including the only Etruscan bronze funerary urn ever found; until January 6.

FLORENCE - Palazzo Medici-Ricciardi: Raphael's Madonna del Cardellino (Madonna of the Goldfinch) on show from November 23 to March 1 after eight-year restoration.

- Palazzo Strozzi: Caterina and Maria de' Medici, Women in Power; until February 8.

- Palazzo Pitti: The Medicis And Science; large collection of scientific writings and tools; until January 11.

- same venue: The Other Face Of The Soul, 60 portraits by Giovanni Fattori, some unseen, showing other side of 19th-century artist famous for military subjects and Maremma landscapes; until January 25.

- Archaeological Museum: retrospective on British sculptor Matthew Spender, who has lived in Tuscany for the last 40 years; until December 30.

GENOA - Palazzo Ducale: 'Lucio Fontana Light and Colour'; until February 15.

- Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Via Croce: Shozo Shimamoto; until March 8.

MAMIANO DI TRAVERSETOLO (PARMA) - Fondazione Magnani-Rocca: Giovanni Fattori, The Poetry of Truth; until November 30.

MANTUA - Ducal Palace; first major show on Jacopo Alari-Bonacorsi aka Antico, including celebrated Vaso Gonzaga; until January 6.

MILAN - Palazzo Reale: Rene' Magritte and the Mystery of Nature; around 100 paintings featuring Magritte's signature apples, blue skies and birds; November 22-March 29, one of Italy's largest-ever Magritte events.

- same venue: Georges Seurat, Paul Seignac and the neo-Impressionists; over 100 works from major international museums; until January 25.

- same venue: Tiepolos and Canalettos from the Terruzzi Collection; until January 11.

- Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation: 'Great Works 1972-2008'; until March 22.

- Brera Academy and Palazzo Stelline (Credito Valtellinese): Mario Schifano 1943-1998, Selected Works; retrospective marking 10th anniversary of artist's death, previously at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome; until February 1.

- Fondazione Mazzotta: ethnic art from Peggy Guggenheim collection; until February 22.

- Museo Poldi Pezzoli: Japanese 'netsuke' mini-sculptures from four Italian collections and Stuttgart's Linden Museum; until March 15.

MONTECATINI TERME - ex-Terme Tamerici: Boldini Mon Amour; 180 works by Parisian School portrait painter Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931), many unseen including three portraits of secret lover Countess Rastj; until December 30.

NAPLES - Archaeological Museum: Herculaneum: Three Centuries of Discoveries; until April 2009.

- Madre modern art gallery: Robert Rauschenberg, Travelling 1970-76; until January 19.

NUORO - MAN gallery: Man Ray, 300 pieces from his private collection; until January 6.

PALERMO - Palazzo dei Normanni: The Fantastic World of Picasso, 66 works until March 8.

PARMA - National Gallery: Correggio, biggest exhibit on once-neglected artist in years; around 80 works flanked by 40 by contemporaries, plus chance to see three most important frescos up close in city churches; until January 25.

PERUGIA - Palazzo Baldeschi al Corso; From Corot to Picasso and Fattori to De Pisis, modern Italian and European art from two private collections including Monet, Van Gogh and Modigliani; until January 15.

REGGIO EMILIA - Palazzo Magnani and other venues; Matilda and the Treasure of Canossa, 200 works of Medieval art; until January 11.

ROME - National Modern Art Gallery (GNAM): big Giorgio de Chirico show marking 30 years from artist's death; 100 works, never sold and most never seen, from vaults of GNAM and de Chirico Foundation, spanning career, apart from well-known metaphysical works, from 1919 until early 1970s; also studies of Guido Reni, Titian, Rubens; until January 25.

- Chiostro del Bramante: The Myth of Julius Caesar, first ever show focusing on him alone; 200 items from ancient times until the 20th century; until April 5.

- Museo della Civilta' Romana: The Die Is Cast, sketches of Ancient Rome by Gilles Chaillet; until March 1.

- Castel Sant'Angelo: Logos of Italy; Stories in the Art of Excellence; iconic Peroni bottles, Olivetti typewriters, Buitoni pasta, Perugina chocolate 'kisses', a Fellini 'breast' armchair, Warhol poster for Martini drinks, first ANSA dispatch; until January 25 when it goes on world tour of Italian cultural institutes from Russia to the US, Tokyo and Dubai, ending in 2011. - Galleria Ca d'Oro: Homage to Giorgio de Chirico, works by 48 artists including Mario Ceroli, Enzo Cuchi and Renato Cuchi; until December 7.

- Vittoriano: Picasso 1917-1937, the Harlequin of Art; more than 180 works in first major Rome show on Spanish artist in 55 years; until February 8.

- Scuderie del Quirinale: Giovanni Bellini, biggest show in 50 years on artist Durer called 'the best of them all'; until January 11.

- Palazzo delle Esposizioni: Etruscans, The Ancient Metropoli of Latium; until January 9.

- Colosseum: Ruins and Rebirths, 80 works charting development of heritage protection; until February 15.

- Museo di San Salvatore in Lauro: Visions of Grand Tour by Russian visitors to Italy (1640-1880), 60 works in collaboration with Hermitage showing how landmarks like Rome's Pantheon, Milan's Piazza Duomo and Florence's Piazza della Signoria have changed; until February 22. - Fondazione Memmo: Basquiat, 40 works until February 1.

- Museo dell'Ara Pacis: Bruno Munari, retrospective on artist and designer; until February 22.

TREVISO - Casa dei Carraresi: Canaletto, Venice and its Splendours; until April 5.

TRIESTE - Ex-Pescheria Centrale: Trieste 1918, The First Redemption; military equipment, memorabilia, photos from WWI; until January 25.

TURIN - Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli: 164 works from the famous Bischofberger collection until March 1.

VENICE - Guggenheim Museum: Carlo Cardazzo, A New Vision Of Art, pieces from his collection including de Chirico, Sironi, Campigli, Scipione, Marini and the architect Carlo Scarpa; until February 9.

- Palazzo Grassi: Italics, Italian contemporary art 1968-2008; until January 11.

VICENZA - Palazzo Barbaran: 'Palladio 500', 200 works including 30 models of Palladian architecture plus art by Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian celebrate Andrea Palladio on the 500th anniversary of his birth; until January 9, when it moves to London (Royal Academy of Arts, 31 January - 13 April 2009) and on to Washington in autumn 2009.

VIGEVANO - Castello: Futurism and Modernity, mainly local artists; until December 14.

photo: Magritte, Le Praitre Marie' (The Married Priest, 1961)

Will you be attending any of these venues so you can share your opinion of them with us?

Hi

An exhibition not mentioned on the list but one I visited this week while in Rome to collect my new passport. (great service from the British embassy by the way....).

da Rembrandt a Vermeer at the Museo del Corso until the 15th February. Not a large exhibition by British Museum, National Gallery (UK) etc. but absolutely delightful. Rembrandts and Vermeers do not form the major part of the exhibition but they are brilliantly supported by a large range of 'domestic' Dutch/Flemish pictures by other artists of the time. Mostly social, domestic and family life plus a few landscapes. A little reminiscing here as the light and the sky are very much like my native Suffolk.

You can get so close to the paintings and then can just gaze in awe at the skill these artists had. Their depiction of fabrics etc. fairly takes the breath away. Many of these pictures are allegorical and some have since be found not to be what they were once thought to be.
e.g. One painting first thought to be a father admonishing his daughter turns out to be a 'client' chiecking out a prostitute under the watchful eye of the madam!

A most interesting exhibition currently held in Florence and open until the 8th of February 2009

[url=http://english.firenze.net/turismo/cm_dettaglio.wbs?id_contenuto=400024&id_categorie=92]Florence, Italy on Firenze.net - exhibitions in Florence, Women in Power[/url]

"Will you be attending any of these venues so you can share your opinion of them with us?: Juliancoll

Who knows J+C, but say in the meantime since you are in Viterbo, and therefore quite close, perhaps you can visit one in Rome and advise us accordingly whether in your opinion it's worth visiting.

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Who knows J+C, but say in the meantime since you are in Viterbo, and therefore quite close, perhaps you can visit one in Rome and advise us accordingly whether in your opinion it's worth visiting.[/quote]
Sally, you know very well I'm not in Viterbo - I'm currently in Alaska doing some salmon fishing, but should I get the chance to go to Rome again in the foreseeable future, I will share the experience and my opinions with the forum - unlike you. :bigergrin:

Hi

Had to go to Cortona (SE Tuscany) this morning so popped into the Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca e della Citta di Cortona (MAEC). Here, there is one of the exhibitions mentioned on the top list. A small but amazing collection of Etruscan works some dating back to the 7th century BC which are on temporary loan from the Hermitage, Russia. This temp. exhibition complements the permanent collection of Etruscan stuff which has recently been extended after more excavations at the nearby archeological site.

The Russian pieces are just amazing, the Tsars clearly had a good eye, when they decided what to 'plunder' in the 18th century. There is one funeral urn (I know it sounds morbid!) of a reclining youth in bronze. It looks like it has just left the mould - the detail is so perfect. The Etruscans seem to have been very keen on 'fashionable' hairstyles as most of the human depictions have gorgeous hair, and again the detail is just awesome.

The extended permanent exhibtion is also excellent with italian and english labelling and it has been very creatively displayed - video, sensory items etc. maps in braille,,,,, etc.

Spoke to the curator about a couple of the items we were not sure about and also asked him about the archeological site - he said they had discovered tens and tens of new tombs and sites around Cortona/ValdiChiana but they didn't have the money to excavate. It just seems such a shame that so much beauty is still hidden.

So if you are in the Cortona area before 11th Jan. be sure to visit the museum for a feast for the eyes before you hit one of the many fantastic family restaurants for a great lunch.

Just thought I might be able to get pic. or gorgeous Etruscan bloke - here he is! [url=http://www.cortonamaec.org/english/index.php]MAEC: Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca e della Città di Cortona[/url]