VATICAN CITY – On May 25, two new rooms in the Vatican Museums will be unveiled to the public for the first time: the Spezieria di Santa Cecilia in Trastevere and the Sala Delle Ceramiche, accordi

TURIN – Emmanuel Carrère, with his novel V13 (Adelphi), has won the tenth edition of the Premio Strega Europeo.

 MARTINA FRANCA - Il Turco in Italia by Gioachino Rossini, conducted by Michele Spotti and directed by Silvia Paoli, Il paese dei campanelli by Carlo Lombardo and Virgilio Ranzato, conducted by Fab

ROME - The adaptation of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Carl Granieri for The English Theatre of Rome has re-centred the classic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to focus on Eurydice’s

 VENICE – The recently opened new Patricia Low gallery in Venice is hosting a solo show by renowned British

 ROME - Legend has it that if you throw a coin in the Trevi Fountain, one day you will return to Rome - in my case at least, that came true.

 VATICAN CITY - The Sekhmet Project, directed by the Vatican Museums with the support of the Canadian Patrons of the Arts group, is a research project looking at the sculptural production

  ROME -- A new decree law issued by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's cabinet urging universities to pay back wages and pensions to foreign lecturers evidently is a 'half-hearted attempt' to

 ROME - Tracey Emin’s new exhibition in Rome called "You should have saved me," opens on 13 May at the Galleria Lorcan O'Neill and presents a body of work made over the past two years in her studio

 ROME - Peter N.

The Stonecutter's Memoirs by Margaret Stenhouse 

 ROME - Francesco Terrone, 60, author of hundreds of poems, showcased his latest collection of poems published in a three language edition about the innocence of children at a press conference on T

 MARSALA, Sicily – The British Ambassador to Italy, Lord Llewellyn, is set to go Marsala on May 11 to strengthen traditional ties between Britain and the port city that go back to the days when Lor

 VATICAN CITY - From 14 April to 28 October 2023 the Pope's Museums will extend their opening hours every Friday and Saturday until 10.30 pm (last entrance at 8.30 pm).

 ROME -  Visiting Director Carl Granieri brings Sarah Ruhl’s reimagined telling of

 VENICE – A new room dedicated to the Jewish Passover will be opened from 9 April in the heart of the Jewish Ghetto in Venice.

 ROME – American Academy and Grammy Award nominated actor, Matt Dillon, was enchanted by the new “Stars of San Lorenzo” exhibition at its opening on March 31, reported gallery officials. 

ROME – An exhibition showcasing five of Dosso Dossi’s ten frieze depicting Virgil’s Aeneid, which have been reunited for the first time, opens at the Galleria Borghese on Tuesday. 

 ROME - Fratelli d'Italia, the party of Italy’s Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, has presented to the Chamber of Deputies a bill which aims to defend the Italian language from the “rampant” use of fo

 TURIN - The contemporary Ukrainian Art Exhibition “Trionfo della Primavera” (Triumph of Spring) opens in Turin and will run from 1 April to 15 April, according to the organisers.

 VENICE - The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement will go to director Liliana Cavani at the 80th Venice International Film Festival.

 ROME – A professor at the Bocconi University has demanded Italian Insider’s chief editor pay him as much as 130,000 euros for civil damages he claims he is owed

ROME – On the occasion of the 400^th anniversary of the election to the papal throne of Urban VIII Barberini, an impressive exhibition dedicated to the longest and most representative pon