Towards Modernity – Venice, a City of the Past Tommaso Marinetti, the eclectic founder of the Futurist Movement, proposed in…
Unsual Gardens in Venice -2 Peggy Guggenheim collection The garden of the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation is a hidden gem that…
Happy Birthday Biennale! The 60th Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art will open on 20 April under the title Foreigners Everywhere,…
Rosalba Carriera was a famous Venetian painter of the 18th century. She was born in Venice in 1675. Renowned for…
Venice high tides Over the past fifty years, Venice has faced a significant environmental challenge: high tides. Due to its…
Imago Iustitiae is the title of an exhibition at the Correr Museum in Venice dedicated to the iconography of justice…
Venice is usually considered a city without gardens, in reality. The city has many gardens, but they are not large…
Simon Leigh in Venice I admired for the first time the monumental works of Simon Leigh, created for the Biennale…
The last exposition of Vittore Carpaccio in Venice The last exhibition of Vittore Carpaccio in the Doge’s palace in Venice…
The American Pavilon in Venice For the first time the American artist Simone Leigh exhibits her sculptures in Venice. She…
Painting stories Paula Rego painted stories, she needed a story to paint. At the beginning of her career she had…
The Milk of dreams, the title of the 59th edition of Biennale of Art Venezia 2022 curated by Cecilia Alemani,…
A fresco in a case “In the air raid of the 11th of March, 1944, the Ovetari Chapel was razed…
Text and Pictures by Herman H. Van Doorn The first time I visited Venice as a teenager the city made…
I had no idea what was a Babinski sign on a small child up to the moment I came across…
Venice, an accessible city Last week I came across a valuable little photography exhibit that made me think of Venice…
Murano glass in the Guggenheim collection Peggy Guggenheim loved contemporary art, she considered ‘the art of her century’ something to…
Glass animals in the Pierre Rosenberg Collection Le Stanze del vetro is situated on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore…
American framing – The hands that built America There is a small piece of United States in Venice, it is…
For a cardinal of the Holy Roman Church to die in Rome and have a funeral chapel built in the…
The International Exhibition of Architecture Biennale Venezia 2021 The title of this edition of the International Architecture Exhibition, Biennale Architettura…