20th century

February 11, 2017
Carlo Carrà was born on 11 February in 1881 in Quarguento, Piedmont.

January 23, 2017
Giacometti’s Plaster Models To Be Grouped for First Time in 60 Years Leading up the massive retrospective of the artists work to open at London’s Tate Modern this spring, it was announced that one of the feature installations of the exhibition will be the assembly of six plaster sculptures rendered by the artist for the 1956 Venice Biennale.

January 9, 2017
Architect Pier Luigi Nervi Died on 9 January 1979 in Rome.

January 8, 2017
On 8 January 1963 the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. set a precedent for the blockbuster museum shows that dominated the rest of the century.

December 30, 2016
Modernist Aroldo Bonzagni Died on 30 December 1918 in Milan.

December 11, 2016
The Mona Lisa is the focus of much creative projection and sleuthing.

November 29, 2016
On View in Venice: “My Weapon Against the Atom Bomb is a Blade of Grass” (12 November 2016 – 13 March 2017) A retrospective exhibition of the career of Italian modernist Tancredi Parmeggiani (1927-1964) is currently on view at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice .

On View in Venice: “My Weapon Against the Atom Bomb is a Blade of Grass” (12 November 2016 – 13 March 2017) A retrospective exhibition of the career of Italian modernist Tancredi Parmeggiani (1927-1964) is currently on view at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice .

November 6, 2016
Andy Warhol and Pop Society at Palazzo Ducale in Genoa Pop Society , a retrospective of some of Andy Warhol’s instantly recognizable as well as not-as-well-known work opened at Genova’s Palazzo Ducale in late October and runs through February 2017.

October 16, 2016
Painter, writer, and composer Primo Conti was born in Florence on 16 October 1900.

October 9, 2016
3 + 3: Umberto Boccioni’s Stati d’animo In 1911 Umberto Boccioni made two versions of the same work, Stati d’animo : Gli addii , Quelli che vanno, and Quelli che restano .