If Milan 2015 is Expo…the Christmas Milan is “Oh Bej Oh Bej“

Once a year, on 7th December the city of Milan is proud to celebrate the day dedicated to its patron saint who is Saint Ambrose, called by Milan’s citizens “Sant’Ambrös”!

Saint Ambrose Day has really ancient origins and through the years it has been keeping the affection and the participation of all Milan’s inhabitants, who between the ritual mass of 7th December in the beautiful Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio and the stalls of “Oh bej oh bej” fair, cram the streets of the city to celebrate this great event.

The fair, which dates back to 1288, takes its name from the exclamation of Milan’s children who, between the stalls full of toys and sweets, couldn’t help marveling and shouted “Oh bej oh bej” (that it means “Oh, how nice! How nice!”).

Usually this event, which is a real festival of colours, lights and (more…)

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In Venice an Exhibition to give voice to Depero’s Futurism

At Correr Museum of Venice, an extraordinary exhibition is underway, and it’s dedicated to one of the founding fathers of Italian Futurism, Fortunato Depero. The exhibition’s name is “DEPERO - Opere della collezione Fedrizzi” (“Depero - Works from the Fedrizzi Collection”).

The exhibition, one of the many ones organized by the Fondazione Musei Civici of Venice on the occasion of the centennial of futurism, will be housed by the Correr Museum until 1^st March 2009. This great event had been made possible thanks to the Fedrizzi family, who agreed to gift the private collection belonging to Giuseppe Fedrizzi as a long-term loan to Fondazione Ca’ Pesaro.

The event displays about 80 artworks which date back to the period between 1914 and 1956, and are the real proof of Depero’s artistic genius, who succeeded in giving movement to each of his creations with the use of oils, temperas, charcoal drawings and advertising sketches.

Undisputed forerunner of our way of conceiving advertisement, Depero (more…)

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With Florence Noël it’s a Magic Christmas in Florence!

Do you feel like a traditional Christmas?

The lovely letters to ask your presents, the sled dragged by reindeers, the colored house of Santa Claus and many, many delicious sweets, candies and cakes…Well, then you feel like a Florence Noël !!

“Florence Noel” is an exhibition market organized every year by Stazione Leopolda to put the Christmas of our dreams up. From 29^th November to 8^th December in fact, the Stazione fills with lights, colours and fragrances typical of Christmas time.

Every year, several exhibitors take part to this great exhibition, and in a magical atmosphere, they (more…)

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“Tuscany Feast” 2008

On Sunday 30^th November, the whole Tuscany celebrates the anniversary of death penalty’s abolition.

“Tuscany Feast” is a typical and usual appointment which joins the participation of all citizens and the Region of Tuscany institutions.

The origins of this feast date back to a legislative bill, to be more precise, the Penal Reform promulgated on 30^th November 1786 by Grand Duke Peter Leopold of Lorraine. With this reform, Tuscany put an end to the capital punishment, and marked an important moment of civility which would have changed its history forever.

Tuscany in fact, thanks to Leopoldina Reform, was the first sovereign state to (more…)

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Turin Triennial comes back on its 2nd Edition

The city of Turin represents the capital of the contemporary artistic and architectural avant-garde, and it has always cooperated with the greatest cultural organizations to promote the launch of many young artists.

“T Torino Triennale“ gets under way on its 2^nd edition just from these premises. The Triennial was born from the cooperation with Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and with the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.

The Triennial, which will stay open to the public until 1^st February 2009, wants to give as much space as possible to contemporary young artists, who come from every corner of the world and who dedicate their artistic genius to (more…)

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‘Festa della Madonna della Salute’ in Venice

Every year on 21st November, Venice, the city of art and culture, rich of traditions and folkloristic events, celebrates the “Festa della Madonna della Salute”.

The event is celebrated with joy by all the city’s inhabitants, who every year are grateful to Madonna della Salute for having stopped that awful plague which in 1630 struck the entire Venice.

In that year in fact, when everything seemed to be lost because of the dramatic disease-spreading, the Venetians decided to build a church to dedicate to Madonna, to ask her to intercede so that stopped the epidemic. It really seems that Venetians were pleased, therefore from then on, every year the whole city gives thanks for the received grace, and (more…)

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‘Magritte e la Natura’ on Exhibition in Milan

After Neoimpressionism, Milan goes on with its great artistic season and dedicates an extraordinary exhibition to René Magritte, entitled “Magritte e la Natura” (“Magritte and the Nature”).

The exhibition, which will start next 21^st November in Milan, shows as protagonist one of the most eclectic personages in the panorama of last century’s art. One hundred artworks on view, among collages and paintings, which retrace the artistic itinerary of Magritte from the first futurist paintings to 50s’ advertising campaigns.

The whole exposition revolves just around one theme: the nature. The continuous presence of nature in the painter’s artworks, its importance, and the peculiar way to develop this theme. Magritte shows his surrealist fingerprint by using nature as a fragment of reality to reach a surreal world.

Managed by Michel Draguet, the exhibition underlines (more…)

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini international artist

After the Getty Museum of Los Angeles, the ‘National Gallery of Canada’ of Ottawa will dedicated an exhibition (from 25th November to 8thMarch 2009), to one of the greatest Italian seventeenth-century artist: Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

The event, entitled “Bernini and the birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture”, plans the exhibition of about 60 works (15 drawings, 30 sculptures and 15 oils of the same artist), many of which are borrowed by various Italian museums, which until this moment jealously took care of the artist’s masterpieces.

The exhibition, which in the last two months had a great success between Americans and also Italians who live in the USA, is subdivided into areas according to the subject, which are organized in chronological order, following the painter’s career, and showing the visitors the whole artistic itinerary of the genius.

But even if all Bernini’s works have something to tell, everyone’s attention (exhibition organizers and visitors) particularly focused on (more…)

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In Pisa the great Exhibition about Lorraines’ Reign

The Museo Nazionale of Palazzo Reale (National Museum of Palazzo Reale) of Pisa dedicates an extraordinary exhibition to a very important chapter of the city’s and Tuscany’s history: the reign of Lorraine from 1737 to 1859.

The exhibition entitled “Sovrani nel giardino d’Europa: Pisa e i Lorena” (“Kings in the Eden of Europe: Pisa and the Lorraine”) focuses its attention on the exposition of artworks and cartographies which prove the mark that the reign of Lorraine left in history, and underlines the importance that Peter Leopold’s reign had on social and cultural growth of the grand duchy of Tuscany.

The exhibition puts on show a wide variety of pictorial and plastic artworks, drawings and furniture which come from the great Italian and foreign museums. In particular, about 100 artworks come from (more…)

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Life in a Documentary: Festival dei Popoli in Florence

The Festival dei popoli, Festival Internazionale del Film Documentario (“International Festival of Documentary Film”) is on the calendar of the city of Florence from 14th to 21st November.

The Festival dei popoli, which this year celebrates its 49th birthday, enjoys a huge prestige all over the world and it’s considered one of the most important events dedicated to the documentary production.

This festival edition is entitled “L’eredità di Nanook” (“Nanook’s Heritage”), a homage to the noted film “Nanook” by Flaherty, which was the first one to be called “documentary” by Grierson.

The Festival dei popoli represents a real platform where the sector’s experts can meet each other and where young film makers and aspirant documentary film makers can get to (more…)

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