modernism

August 10, 2014
philamuseum : New in gallery 271: “ Reinventing Italy’s Decorative Arts: Velvets and Glass from the Interwar Era ” explores Italy’s arts and cultural scene in the 1920s and 1930s through costumes, textiles, and glass objects from the Museum’s collection.

August 9, 2014
Painter and printmaker Emilio Vedova was born on this day in 1919 in Venice.

July 12, 2014
On 12 July 1884, Italian modernist Amadeo Modigliani was born in Livorno, Italy.

May 20, 2014
With over 200 works by the greatest 20th-century Italian glassmakers, the collection of Dimitri Levas will be auctioned today at Wright’s in Chicago .

March 24, 2014
gettypubs : Lucio Fontana is widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative post-World War II Italian artists.

February 22, 2014
The Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) opens today in New York.

February 21, 2014
Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe opens today at the Guggenheim Museum and will remain on view through 1 September.

February 16, 2014
Cristina Ruiz reports in the Art Newspaper on continuing issues for the legacy of artist Giorgio De Chirico .

February 5, 2014
In “A Modigliani?

January 29, 2014
Among the works that will be on view at the Guggenheim’s Italian Futurism retrospective are murals by Benedetta (d. 1977, née Cappa, wife of fellow futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (d. 1944).