ART 2011 – the International Arts and Crafts Exhibition has reached its 75th edition and will take place at Fortezza da Basso in Florence from April, 30th to May, 8th 2011.

The 75th edition of ART will be subdivided into six thematic areas as usual: TERRITORIES, INTERIOR SCENES, TASTE, SCENARIOS OF THE WORLD, FASHION AND JEWELLERY SCENARIOS, VISIONS, in which exhibitors will put on display their world of hand-crafted products mixed with innovation and novelties.

ART is a perfect occasion for

Dear big screen’s addicts, even though it’s still very young – but already successful, it has got what it takes, the 6th Video Festival Città d’Imperia comes back in the Ligurian city from April, 12th to 16th 2011.

The cinema competition received 688 works coming from 41 different countries.

The official selection presents many titles related to many different themes, here are some of them: Alla ricerca della vita (Antonio Mano) Animazione Amatori, Sulle tracce dei pinguini in Sud America (Sarah Giannelli) Cat. Explorer Turistico Italy, Le Rendez Fous (Massimo Pibiri) Film Internaz. France, Dentro del bosque (Ecam / Luis Caballero) Film Internaz. Spain, The sinners (Pablo Polledri) Animaz. Internaz. Argentina, Profezie Maja e cerchi nel grano (Luca Trovellesi Cesana) Doc. Professionisti,

Spring has just arrived, temperature is rising and Italy is celebrating its 150 years of Unity. What better way to celebrate than tasting delicious chocolate and having a walk along the feasting streets discovering places ever visited but few kilometers or maybe meters far from our hotel?

In Turin, CioccolaTò has come back: the  famous chocolate fair, this year a cut above. The city, center of celebrations for 150th of Italian Unity together with Rome, throws a double charge of events dedicated to Gods’ Food, a gourmand and funny occasion both for tourists and for the ones well-knowing Turin.

Turin XIX century cafés with a great historical importance played a first line role in the spread of chocolate all along the Region and the country and they contribute in building Made in Italy chocolate tradition. That’s the reason why the event will involve not only the historical center fo Turin, but also

On March, 2nd, Sterling and Francine Clark Institute Collection will arrive in Milan, at Palazzo Reale, from America, travelling all around the world.

Thanks to a special agreement between city government and the Institute, Milan will have the honor to be the first one to host 73 artworks by famous French artists strongly contributed to Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism development in 19th century.

The show will be organized with 10 sections dividing it in as many thematic strands, from Light to Nature, from Travel to Society.

Studies on light and new reality reproducion of great masters as Monet, Renoir, Degas, Manet are clearly

Once again, Genoa opens the doors to art by hosting the 7th edition of the famous Exhibition-Market ArteGenova.

The exhibition’s venue will be even this year the trade fair show located in Piazzale Kennedy and the event confirms itself as a must for art lovers and for tourists visiting the city in this period, wanting to glance at artworks exposed and maybe buy one.

ArteGenova represents the greatest Italian exhibition-market keeping up new artists and, in the meantime, giving a wide exposition space to artworks belonging to Contemporary Italian art story. More than 90 Italian art galleries will exhibit their works starting from Surrealistic representations, Futuristic, Dadaist ones up to Trans-Avant-Garde expressions, Arte Povera and Pop Art.

The most recent contemporary works cover a large portion of the exhibition area, offering a broad-spectrum landscape on new art vein explored.

From last year the participation to the exhibition of Italian

Exhibition Exhibition”is the name of the exhibition which has begun on September 21st, and will wait for you until January 9th 2011 at Castello di Rivoli Museum of ontemporary Art, near Turin.

It is an exhibition organized by Adam Carr and includes works belonging to the last 60 years created around the concept of symmetry and duality of things.

Carr sets out to explore and reflect on the roles of perception and

Palazzo Reale in Milan is still waiting for us with one of its great exhibitions ongoing since March 17th 2010 and entitled “Goya e il Mondo Moderno” (“Goya and the Modern World”), which will be on display until June 27th 2010.

We are talking about a great exhibition dedicated to the influence the Spanish painter had on modern art, from Picasso to Bacon. An extraordinary collection made up of over 180 works, like paintings, drawings and engravings.

Therefore, the aim of the exhibition is to link and analyze the connections between the painter and other famous modern artists, by starting from a deep research about the themes faced by the Aragonese artist: the image of the new society, the expression of subjectivity, reactions with gestures, and violence.

Among the artists present at the exhibition, we find: Delacroix, Klee, David, Kokoschka, Victor Hugo, Mirò, Klinger, Picasso, Nolde, Bacon, Kirchner, Pollock, Guttuso and de Kooning.

Francisco Goya’s work had a great influence on all the artistic movements belonging to the 19th and 20th centuries, from the Impressionism to Symbolism, from Expressionism to Surrealism, and contributed to strongly influence the contemporary art and culture.

The importance of the body, irrationality, terror, fear, and violence are the incomparable features of Goya’s painting, elements that mark the painter style with immediately recognizable lights and shapes.

The exhibition is managed by Valeriano Bozal and Concepción Lomba, two important Spanish experts about Francisco Goya and contemporary art, supported by the Ministry of Cultural Activities and Heritage, and it was born from the cooperation among Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior (SEACEX), Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación, Ministerio de Cultura di Spagna, Fundación Goya en Aragón and Palazzo Reale in Milan.

So, Milan awaits you all at the luxurious Palazzo Reale with the exhibition “Goya and the Modern World”, until June 27th 2010.

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“ArteGenova” comes back in the city of Genoa, in Liguria, and spreads its own creativity. An event entirely dedicated to all modern and contemporary art-addicted and simple curious people. This is the 6^th edition of such exhibition and will take place from Friday 26^th February til Monday March 1^st 2010, at the Fair building in the city of Genoa placed in Piazzale Kennedy.

The 6^th Exhibition of Modern and Contemporary Art will host over 90 galleries with works which

Until January 15^th 2010, you have time to visit the wonderful retrospective dedicated to the artist Jacque Villeglè entitled “Vacanze Romane” (“Roman Holidays”), set by Dominique Stella at Mucciaccia Gallery in Rome.

In fact for the first time ever, since last October 8^th visitors can marvel at 75 his works in the rooms of Mucciaccia Gallery: dècollages d’affiches dating back to 1960s ‘til nowadays which keep billboards, adverts and manifestos’ strength and use it in turn to make up and create his dècollages which cancel and remove the message and the communication strength of such adverts.

He angrily dismantles the catch phrases, the images