VENICE – The Civic Museums Foundation of Venice (MUVE) responded to an appeal from the Lviv Museums by deciding to immediately send special packaging materials to protect the rich artistic heritag

 ROME -- Veteran Italian television presenter and science journalist Piero Angela has been honoured by Algeria for his work in his youth as a RAI correspondent co

 ROME – The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (TPC) participated for Italy in Pandora VI, the latest of a series of international operations coordinated by Inter

 NAPLES – Ukrainian and Russian dancers from the some of the world’s most prestigious theatres will perform together in ‘Ballet for Peace’ on April 4 at the Teatro San Carlo to raise fund

 FLORENCE – Palazzo Strozzi and the Bargello Museum are showcasing Donatello's most important masterpieces side by side with works by artists such as Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Mantegna, Gio

 PESARO – Following the announcement by Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini that the coastal city will be the Capital of Culture 2024, Mayor Matteo Ricci said he will dedicate the

 VENICE – The Museo di Palazzo Grimani is to present The Flaying of Marsyas, an exhibition of new paintings produced by Mary Weatherford running from April 20 until Nov. 27.

 ROME – Wine exports from Italy fetched a record value of 7.1 billion euros in 2021, an increase of over 12 percent in one year, according to a report from the Qualivita Foundation using

 MILAN – Street artworks depicting Vladimir Putin with a gun to his head was removed a short time after it was put there, said the artist and activist aleXsandro Palombo on social media.

ROME – ‘Si vis pacem, para bellum,’ if you want peace, prepare for war, goes the expression.

 MOSCOW – Following the addition of Italy to Russia’s list of ‘hostile countries,’ the country’s Ministry of Culture has asked Italian institutions to send back all the material they have

 FLORENCE – On the anniversary of birth of Michelangelo, the replica statue of David in Piazza della Signoria in Florence was covered with a black cloth as a sign of mourning and pain for the war i

 MILAN – The exhibition 'Grand Tour: Sogno d’Italia da Venezia a Pompei,' is open until March 27 in the Intesa Sanpaolo museum of the Lombardy capital.

MACERATA – The symphonic concert with Valery Gergiev at the head of the Mariinsky Orchestra has been axed from the city's Opera Festival due to the war in Ukraine, as told by Ansa news agency.

 VENICE – The curator and two artists due to represent Russia at the 59th International Venice Biennale have decided not to partake, saying, "there is no place for art when Ukrainian civi

 ROME -- For over three thousand years the rich volcanic soil of the Alban hills in the Roman countryside has  provided an ideal terrain for the production of wine.

NAPLES – During the applause at the end of an opera performed in the San Carlo Theatre, Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska and Russian mezzo Ekaterina Gubanova stepped forward togethe