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The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Venice Biennale president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco defended allowing Russia to participate in the 61st Venice Biennale, saying “Putin didn’t win; art won,” in an interview with Corriere della Sera...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Paris prosecutors have asked that Giuliano Ruffini be sent to trial on charges of commercial deception and money laundering in connection with an alleged Old Master forgery network, and they also...
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Italian video-art pioneer Fabrizio Plessi died in Venice on August 23 at age 86, according to La Repubblica. Born April 3, 1940, in Reggio Emilia, Plessi studied and later taught in Venice,...
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Four works by Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina were stolen from the Museo Regionale di Messina in Sicily on 15 August during Assumption Day (Ferragosto) celebrations, Messina’s mayor Federico...
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Archaeologists near Marzabotto in northern Italy excavated well-preserved bronze artifacts from an ancient well associated with the Etruscan city of Kainua, according to a report cited from Heritage...
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Italian police have recovered three paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne, and Henri Matisse stolen from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation near Parma in March, with the Carabinieri previously...
Hyperallergic
The BlackStar Film Festival marked its 15th anniversary in Philadelphia from August 6 to 9 with a lineup of 91 films centered on its theme of “a cinema for liberation.” Among highlighted works were...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Florence’s Gallerie degli Uffizi announced an “unprecedented” €50 million revamp spanning the Uffizi Gallery, Palazzo Pitti, and the 11-acre Boboli Gardens, with completion expected within two years....
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On July 28, a group of about 10 people carried out an overnight theft at the headquarters of Italian fuel distributor Lilli Petroli in L’Aquila, Abruzzo, spending up to eight hours inside and...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic published a never-before-released interview in which scholar and curator Julia Bryan-Wilson speaks with performance artist Simone Forti (born 1935 in Italy), who died in Los Angeles in...
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The Uffizi Galleries in Florence announced a €50 million ($57.6 million) renovation program spanning the Gallery of Statues and Paintings, Palazzo Pitti, and the Boboli Gardens, with work staged so...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic published a never-before-published interview excerpt with performance artist Simone Forti (born 1935 in Italy) discussing Yoko Ono (born 1933 in Japan), their overlapping artistic...
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Italy’s Modena FC corporate collection has acquired 44 works from Archie Rand’s “Letter Paintings” series, Jarvis Art announced this week. Rand made the paintings between 1968 and 1971 as a teenager,...
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The European Union withdrew about €2 million (around $2.3 million) in Venice Biennale funding after Russia resumed participation, saying public money should support cultural events that uphold...
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Italy’s National Archaeology Museum in Chieti has granted permission for new authenticity tests on the “Warrior of Capestrano,” a limestone statue over two meters tall discovered in an Abruzzo...
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The Italian trade union Unione Sindacale di Base (USB) has threatened strike action over working conditions in Venice museums, alleging indoor temperatures above 30°C for weeks and perceived...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Art Newspaper reports that Italy has returned 27 archaeological objects to Mexico after multiple investigations found they had been illegally imported, unlawfully sold, or held without...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Tate Modern is preparing a major survey titled “Ana Mendieta” that will present about 150 works and be the UK’s first major Mendieta exhibition in over a decade. The show will frame the Cuban...
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The European Commission recommended canceling a €2 million grant to the Venice Biennale, citing Russia’s participation in the event, according to an ARTnews report updated on July 13, 2026. Russia...
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Bogotá’s Museo Nacional de Colombia is exhibiting 1,194 pre-Columbian artefacts repatriated to Colombia between 2022 and 2026 during President Gustavo Petro’s outgoing administration, in a show...
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The United States returned two 8th-century bronze Buddha sculptures to Indonesia at a ceremony on July 8 at the Indonesian Consulate in New York, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the...
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The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday that 59 looted antiquities from Italy, Iraq, and Indonesia have been returned to their countries of origin, including 45 objects seized...
Hyperallergic
Cultural workers with the Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA) plan to protest in Venice on Friday, July 17, during a scheduled visit by US Ambassador to Italy Tilman Fertitta. ANGA said Fertitta,...
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Italy’s parliament is advancing legislation to establish a formal process for restituting art and cultural property looted by the Nazis under Italian Fascist racial laws, according to reporting cited...
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Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA), a coalition of artists and cultural workers formed in early 2024 to oppose Israel’s participation in the Venice Biennale, called for a mass mobilization and strike...
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Italian filmmaker and artist Yervant Gianikian died at 84, according to Italian press reports; he was born in 1942 in Merano, Italy, to Armenian parents. Working frequently with his partner Angela...
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Italy has opened an exhibition at Rome’s National Etruscan Museum featuring 37 4th-century BC fresco panels from the François Tomb (Tomba François), discovered in 1857 at Vulci in present-day Lazio...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Ai Weiwei opened a large-scale exhibition titled Button Up! at Factory International’s Aviva Studios in Manchester on 3 July, presenting more than two decades of work alongside new commissions, many...
Hyperallergic
After several antiquities were removed from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection in June, the total valuation of looted artifacts surrendered by the museum has reached about $95 million,...
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The Manhattan District Attorney’s office under Alvin Bragg removed dozens of antiquities from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in June, bringing the total taken from the museum since 2017 to more than...
Hyperallergic
Italian labor unions, cultural workers’ associations, and grassroots collectives have called for a nationwide strike across Italy’s arts and culture sector on Friday, June 12, citing low wages,...
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British painter Tess Jaray, known for understated abstract paintings featuring grids, cubes, and zigzags on pale grounds, died on Sunday at age 88, according to an obituary posted on her official...
Hyperallergic
The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, is presenting “Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone,” described as the first major retrospective of sculptor Edmonia Lewis (born 1844 in Greenbush, New York;...
Artnet News
Italy’s Borghese Gallery in Rome is facing criticism from heritage groups and art historians over a proposal to build an adjacent facility intended to expand display space and increase visitor...
Hyperallergic
A coalition of Somalia-based cultural organizations criticized Somalia’s first-ever national pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, saying local artists and groups were not “meaningfully consulted” or...
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Italian culture minister Alessandro Giuli told Corriere della Sera in an interview published May 7 that “Putin won at the Biennale,” criticizing Russia’s controversial return to the Venice Biennale...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Venice Biennale president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco defended the event against critics on 6 May at a conference at Teatro Piccolo dell’Arsenale, accusing opponents of “narcissism” and “censorship” amid...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reports that Israeli Pavilion artist Belu-Simion Fainaru issued legal warnings alleging antisemitism and nationality-based discrimination after the Venice Biennale jury said it would...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Art Newspaper says the Venice Biennale’s long-standing but often downplayed role as a sales platform is unusually overt this year, with dealers, auction houses, and private foundations openly...
Artnet News
An Artnet News report dated 1 May 2026 says the United States returned hundreds of looted antiquities to Italy. The excerpt provided does not specify the exact number of objects, the institutions...
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ARTnews reported that Italian culture minister Alessandro Giuli will not attend the Venice Biennale preview or opening ceremony on May 9 in protest of Russia’s return via its national pavilion, which...
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Somalia’s first-ever Venice Biennale pavilion has drawn criticism from Somali art organizations and artists who say the project failed to meaningfully consult or include Somalia-based practitioners...
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The European Commission has given the Venice Biennale 30 days to address allegations that including a Russian Pavilion in the 2026 edition violates EU sanctions, warning it could suspend or terminate...
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Belu-Simion Fainaru, the artist representing Israel at the forthcoming Venice Biennale, issued a statement to ARTnews rejecting calls to exclude Israel and saying, “As an artist, I do not support...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic’s roundup, introduced by senior editor Valentina Di Liscia, spotlights Ed Simon’s essay on Salvador Dalí’s religious paintings and his “nuclear mysticism,” which fused quantum physics...
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The Uffizi Gallery in Florence denied claims that a February 1 cyber attack gave hackers sweeping access to its systems, after Corriere della Sera reported on April 3 that attackers demanded a ransom...
Artnet News
Artnet News reported on 2 April 2026 that experts are raising alarms after a brazen heist at Italy’s Magnani-Rocca Foundation. The article frames the theft as a serious security breach at a museum...
Artnet News
Thieves stole three works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse, and Paul Cézanne from the Magnani Rocca Foundation’s villa museum near Parma, Italy, on the night of March 22, 2026, according to...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reports that online commenters reacted intensely to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s newly acquired “Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist” (1512–13), recently identified as...
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ARTnews reports that the Venice Biennale’s Central Pavilion in the Giardini has been fully renovated ahead of the Biennale’s May 2026 opening, with a total budget of €31 million (about $36 million)....
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Venice mayor Luigi Brugnaro said on March 19 that Russia’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale would be closed if it engages in propaganda, while also arguing that Venice should remain a place for...