museums

November 11, 2019
Treasures of the Querini Stampalia Foundation Museum

February 18, 2018
As Perseus and Andromeda Rise, Medusa is the Star For stargazers in the Northern Hemisphere, the constellations of Perseus and Andromeda reach ascendance on 18 February, and are easy to see high overhead during the spring.

January 7, 2018
Book Review: Modigliani

June 18, 2017
Maria Lai at documenta 14 With Skulptur Projekte Münster , documenta 14 , and the Venice Biennale now open and going through the fall, the contemporary art world enjoys a rare trifecta of the major continental exhibitions.

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

December 4, 2016
The excavation of Pompeii and Herculaneum following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 has fascinated people since the first half of the 1700s, but with its popularity comes a challenge for museums to display artifacts in an original and meaningful way.

September 18, 2016
Arte Povera Collection Gets New York Home A new space housing the impressive Arte Povera and contemporary art collection of Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu is under construction.

September 4, 2016
Last Chance: Alphonse Mucha in Rome The first major Italian retrospective of the work of Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) closes 11 September 2016 following a four-month run at the Complesso del Vittoriano in Rome.

August 21, 2016
Animal-Themed Art in Pakistan The first Pakistan-based solo show of an Italian contemporary artist calls attention to the plight of the country’s fragile population of fauna, which includes the endangered snow leopard and the threatened markhor, a large mountain goat.

July 23, 2016
Etruscan Artifacts in Denmark Destined to Return to Italy After four years of negotiation, Copenhagen’s Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek announced recently that it has agreed to return a significant cache of Etruscan artifacts to Italy by the end of 2017.