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| 01-26-2008 04-20-2008 |
The last Titian | Exhibitions | |
The opening sees Pope Paul III grabbing look on the world, his hands-claws holding the chair on which he’s seating; it’s 1543. This is the date from which we start the 20 year journey in the oceanic activity of the greatest of painters [...]  |
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| 07-28-2007 11-25-2007 |
Venice and Islam 828 - 1797 | Exhibitions | |
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Finally after Paris and New York the great exhibition about the links between Serenissima and Islam arrives in Venice. The relationship is recounted through the display of marvellous and sophisticated object d’art [...] |
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| 06-06-2007 11-21-2007 |
Venetian Biennial Courtesy of Il Giornale dell’Arte |
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Correct, committed, well displayed, enjoyable, but not extremely emotionally involving. This is in short the final judgment on the 52nd International Art Exhibition, now on show at “Giardini” in Castello and in Venice’s “Arsenale” until November the 21st. [...] |
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| 05-05-2007 11-11-2007 |
Sequence 1 Courtesy of Il Giornale dell’Arte |
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As the first step of a larger display project Alyson M. Gingeras selected sixteen artists works from François Pinault’s incredible art collection giving shape to the new exhibition at Palazzo Grassi [...] |
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| 03-23-2007 09-30-2007 |
Sargent and Venice Courtesy of Il Giornale dell’Arte |
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The title, Sargent and Venice, purposefully suggests the title of the previous
fortunate exhibition “Turner and Venice”, that was held at the
Museo Correr as well. [...] |
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| 09-01-2007 09-07-2007 |
Circuito Off - Venice International Short Film Festival | Film review | |
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From the 1st to the 7th September, Circuito Off - Venice International Short Film Festival is back in San Servolo Island. The short film island livens up for a week, asserting itself as the ideal window for young emerging directors. [...] |
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| 06-09-2006 09-02-2007 |
Unexpectedly beautiful Courtesy of Il Giornale dell’Arte |
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To ran through the book heritage of which Venice was the undisputed capital
from the fifteeenth century on, when Aldo Manuzio (1450- 1515) bringing to
perfection the teachings of the German printers who had moved to the lagoon
at the beginning of the century [...] |
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| 05-27-2007 |
Traditional oars Courtesy of Venezianews |
Venetian traditions | |
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The Vogalonga competition takes part in Venice history since its birth it is one on the main events, especially spring. Vogalonga’s birth is due
to a few Venetians and has always been supported only by the participants. [...] |
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| 03-19-2007 04-29-2007 |
Sin and Redemption Courtesy of Venezianews |
Music | |
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In the month of April, the Fenice Theatre will have an ample selection of
operas. Sin and redemption, or rather, redemption first and then sin: for
the days preceding the Easter festivities [...] |
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| 11-11-2006 03-11-2006 |
The joy of living Courtesy of Il Giornale dell’Arte |
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To find back the joy of living after the tragedy of World War II: it is the return
to an explosive creativity what marks the happy years of Pablo Picasso, going
from1945 to 1948. [...] |
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| 10-28-2006 02-05-2007 |
Richier rediscovered Courtesy of Il Giornale dell’Arte |
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In 1952, at the Biennale of Venice, Palma Bucarelli, then director of the Gallery
of Modern Art in Rome, bought the statue “The ogre” by Germaine
Richier; there was an immediate polemic for the akwardness of the piece of
art, a rare example of informal sculpture. [...] |
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| 12-01-2006 12-03-2006 |
10th Fair on Cultural Goods and Activities Courtesy of Venezianews |
Fairs and markets | |
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To reach the aim of the ten years is not an easy goal in a country where
cultural goods represent an undeniable resource at words, but in reality
they are treated as a Cinderella in the already poor national budget, that
is not in a good condition. [...] |
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| 09-09-2006 12-03-2006 |
Tintoretto entrepreneur Courtesy of Il Giornale dell’Arte |
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At half of the sixteenth century, the Senate of the Serenissima Republic
had planned to remove the by that time damaged fresco “Incoronation
of the Virgin”, painted in the year 1367 for the Major Council hall,
and to replace it with a new work of art (a canvas this time) by a famous
contemporary artist. [...] |
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| 09-27-2006 10-07-2006 |
La composizione speculativa Courtesy of Venezianews |
Music | |
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From the 29th of September to the 7th of October will be held the 50th International
Festival of Contemporary Music of the Venice Biennial: nine days in which
48 different authors will give concerts, audio visual performances, musical
shows and chamber music performances. [...] |
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| 04-30-2006 10-01-2006 |
Where are we going? Courtesy of Il Giornale dell’Arte |
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The new status of Palazzo Grassi, that is to say the Pinault age, which
started last April 30th with the exhibition “Where are we going?”,
gives visibile signs beginning from the outside of the building: there
is the joyful steel dog by Jeff Koons [...] |
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| 06-04-2006 09-24-2006 |
Lucio Fontana. Venice /New York Courtesy of Il Giornale dell’Arte |
Exhibitions | |
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To reconstruct the Venice series seemed impossible; they are eleven paintings
of 150 cm x 150) by Lucio Fontana exhibited together just in two occasions,
both dating back to the far 1961. [...] |
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| 10-06-2005 07-30-2006 |
The cycle of Santa Caterina and the paintings of Palazzo Patriarcale Courtesy of Il Giornale dell’Arte |
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The Museo Diocesano offers an unique occasion: that of admiring works of art
which are normally not accessible to the public. Indeed they took advantage of
the temporary closing of the Palazzo Patriarcale due to restoration works to
exhibit its paintings. [...] |
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| 12-17-2005 07-02-2006 |
Fortuny as photographer Courtesy of Il Giornale dell’Arte |
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About one hundred photographs by Mariano Fortuny (1871 – 1949)
have been selected and printed following a philological method by Giorgio
Molinari, who chose them from a body of more than 11.000 negatives, and
they are now exhibited until the beginning of July in the Fortuny museum
in Venice. [...] |
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| 06-23-2006 07-01-2006 |
The clemency of the tyrant Courtesy of Venezianews |
Music | |
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At the Fenice Theatre, the month of June will close with an important opportunity
in which to demonstrate that, in spite of the sharp fund-reduction effected
by the preceding Government, the lyric Foundation remains capable of producing ex
novo operas; it does not only stage other people’s productions,
however splendid these may be. [...] |
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| 06-08-2006 06-25-2006 |
The secret body Courtesy of Venezianews |
Ballet | |
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A body. The arms, the legs. A place of action. An esthetic place. The body as
a unit of measure, beauty and perfection. Only this? What if, behind all this,
a secret is hidden, a secret which must be confessed? What is concealed under
the skin? According to contemporary philosophy [...] |
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| 02-05-2005 05-21-2006 |
The art scene Courtesy of Il Giornale dell’Arte |
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The head of Alberto Sordi coming out of a sculpture by Alberto Viani; Alberto
Giacometti looking with desire at a buxom model, in front of his bony sculptures [...] |
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| 03-18-2006 05-14-2006 |
Music avant-garde Courtesy of Venezianews |
Music | |
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Magic, alchemy and a combination of sounds that challenges the rules
of Physics, but also that explodes in many splinters that manage to stick
between different styles [...] |
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| 12-22-2005 03-28-2006 |
Dance anthology Courtesy of Venezianews |
Ballet | |
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This year's event “Verso l’Universo” has come to an end.
As an extra attraction for the public, the organizers wish to present a brief
synthesis of the history of the dance, in three segments. [...] |
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| 02-21-2006 03-01-2006 |
An "intercultural" journey into tradition Courtesy of Venezianews |
Theatre | |
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"The Dragon and the Lion" is dedicated to China, to her traditions
and evolution until today. It is also dedicated to the way in which we have
imagined this country in the course of time. [...] |
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| 02-18-2006 02-28-2006 |
Oriental Carnival dance Courtesy of Venezianews |
Venetian traditions |
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The encounter between Carnival and Theatre traditions has woven a conducting
thread which, until the present date, has accompanied the history and life
of the Venetian Carnival, renewing the splendour and magic from the 1980's
onward. [...] |
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| 12-17-2005 02-26-2006 |
Alberto Gianquinto. Works 1960-2001 Courtesy of Il Giornale dell’Arte |
Exhibitions | |
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It has been a competition between friends, relatives, aquaintances, appraisers
and critics that made it possibile to reconstruct with plenty of works, at the
Correr Museum in Venice [...] |
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| 10-29-2005 02-26-2006 |
Sacred and prophane art in the Sorlini collection Courtesy of Il Giornale dell’Arte |
Exhibitions | |
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Sacred and prophane art: the “Madonna with child” by Bellini, which
belonged to the Contini Bonacossi collection, with her sweet motherly look towards
the sleeping child [...] |
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| 11-02-2005 02-26-2006 |
Seasonal effects Courtesy of Venezianews |
Theatre | |
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Program rich in stimuli: this is what Luca De Fusco, organizer of the
prose seasons at the Goldoni Theatre and of Verdi performances at Padua,
is currently proposing. [...] |
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| 11-11-2005 01-08-2006 |
The diaphragm of Lanfranco Colombo Courtesy of Il Giornale dell’Arte |
Exhibitions | |
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“The axis around which Italian photography spins”, that is what the
authoritative Piergiorgio Branzi wrote some years ago about Lanfranco Colombo.
He was wrong: indeed, it wasn’t about Italian photography, but European
and even more than that. [...] |
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| 09-06-2005 01-08-2006 |
Still Life Courtesy of Il Giornale dell’Arte |
Exhibitions | |
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Heirs of the glorious tradition of the Golden Age, the Sixteenth Century,
the Venetian artists of the XVII century looked down on still life even after
it had gained full popularity around all Europe by the second half of the
700th century. [...] |
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| 09-25-2005 12-18-2005 |
Mitoraj Courtesy of Il Giornale dell’Arte |
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12 big bronze statues resembling some ancient works, representing gods,
heroes and winged creatures, talk from 24 September to 18 December with the “campi”,
the squares of Venice. [...] |
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| 12-02-2005 12-04-2005 |
The aim: culture Courtesy of Venezianews |
Meetings and conferences |
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The 9th edition of the Cultural Heritage and Activities Salon, Venice.
The event’s title, seen from the point of view of anagram and grammar,
gives a hint of the meaning, contents and programme of the fair. [...] |
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| 06-10-2005 11-06-2005 |
51st International art exhibition in Venice Courtesy of Il Giornale dell’Arte |
Exhibitions | |
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Essential in its two main shows organized by the Spanish directors Maria
de Corral and Rosa Martinez, but rich in collateral events, permeating
all city’s spaces, islands included, with a sometimes exaggerate
density which is nonetheless symbol of a great vitality [...] |
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| 06-12-2005 11-06-2005 |
Lucian Freud Courtesy of Il Giornale dell’Arte |
Exhibitions | |
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The Italian art critic Vittorio Sgarbi would have liked to see him exhibiting
at the Biennale instead of Bacon (obviously it is not a value judgement,
it is just because Freud, unlike Bacon, is still living, and thus has full
right to take part to a contemporary art exhibition). [...] |
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| 09-28-2005 10-09-2005 |
Music and its Double Courtesy of Venezianews |
Music | |
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The 49th International Festival of Contemporary Music, directed by Giorgio Battistelli, deals with the theme of theatre and music. A special dedication is reserved for Luigi Nono, with the presentation of one of his early works, Y
entonces comprendió. [...] |
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| 09-28-2005 10-09-2005 |
The roads of research Courtesy of Venezianews |
Music | |
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The dialogue with Giorgio Battistelli, director of the 49th Venice International Contemporary Music Festival and internationally renowned composer also active in musical theatre, begins with a strenuous defence of the creativity of Italian music. [...] |
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| 09-15-2005 09-24-2005 |
The various "body" of the theatre Courtesy of Venezianews |
Theatre | |
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The 37th International Theatre Festival of the Venice Biennale, with the title
Pompei - the story of the ashes, directed by Romeo Castellucci, will take
place from Sept. 15 to 25. [...] |
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| 07-03-2005 07-31-2005 |
Note Games at the Venice Casino Courtesy of Venezianews |
Music Theatre |
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Eight different concerts, four at Ca’Vendramin Calergi and four
at the arena at Ca’Noghera, are included this month in Casinò Giardino [...] |
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| 07-08-2005 07-13-2005 |
We're all children Courtesy of Venezianews |
Ballet | |
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One of the greatest choreographers and directors of our “fin de
siècle” age, Pina Bausch has succeeded in reuniting, in contemporary
terms, theatrical genres and modes of expression which for centuries had
been divided. Her own personal form of “total theatre”, finely
balanced between irony and despair, reflects the linguistic fragmentation,
existential woes and all-consuming poetry of our epoch. [...] |
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| 05-05-2005 07-13-2005 |
Master of Ballet Courtesy of Venezianews |
Ballet | |
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In this late spring The Fenice Theatre is about to host 2 of the 3 most
notable events dedicated to 20th-century dance. [...] |
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| 03-08-2005 05-31-2005 |
Atlas sound Courtesy of Venezianews |
Music | |
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The echo of the wonderful concert of Uri Caine has not ended yet and «Risonanze» season
is about to start again: an edition that will be presented as a sound multidimensional
atlas [...] |
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| 02-13-2005 05-29-2005 |
Paolo Veronese: myths, portraits, allegories Courtesy of Il Giornale dell’Arte |
Music | |
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The portrait of Agostino Barbarigo, admiral of the Venetian fleet which
defeated the Turks during the battle of Lepanto in 1571, is perhaps the
most representative of the exposition “Paolo Veronese: myths, portraits,
allegories” showing at the Correr Museum until the 29th of May. [...] |
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| 02-19-2005 05-22-2005 |
Brancusi. The white work Courtesy of Il Giornale dell’Arte |
Exhibitions | |
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“Brancusi was a wonderful little man, bearded, with dark and sharp eyes,
he was somewhere in the middle between a smart peasant and a real divinity” [...] |
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