We’re nearly arrived to the 150 years of Italian Unity eve and we’re all waiting curiously and quite impatiently for the celebrations in Italian cities to come.

Lots of exhibitions, events, lessons and many kinds of initiatives are already ongoing for a few days, in some cases also for months, dedicated to patriotism and to Risorgimento, a whole Italian riot movement against foreign oppressors and against devided Italian States for the unification of the country.

In January a list, available in full version in the celebrations official web site, has also been drawn with “Luoghi della memoria” (Memorial sites), monuments, squares and streets, often in state of neglect and forgetfulness, calling back the memory to the facts that led to the Unity. Amog them there are the Monumento alla Difesa in Venice, Parco del Gianicolo in Rome, Monumento a Garibaldi and Lungomare di Quarto dei Mille, Santa Croce in Firenze, Monumento alle Cinque Giornate in Milan, the Primo Parlamento Italiano in Palazzo Carignano , Turin,

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

Even in Christmas time, art and history are on display in Rome, with a special exhibition dedicated to the mysteries of Mexico.

From last November, 9th to February, 27th 2011, you will have the opportunity to marvel at “Mexico. Teotihuacan. La Città degli Dei” (“Mexico. Teotihuacan. City of Gods”), an exhibition dedicated to the pre-Columbian civilization of Teotihuacan (2nd – 7th centuries A.D).

The exhibition is taking place at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome and for the very first time presents visitors the history, truth, art and culture

The Gallery of Modern Art in the town of Nervi (near Genoa, in the Region of Liguria) is placed in the 16th-century Villa Saluzzo and it preserves over 2,500 pieces of art: paintings, sculptures, drawings and engravings which date back to the 19th century until contemporary age. Now it waits for you on the occasion of this great event.

As a matter of fact, the gallery hill host from September to December 2010 an exhibition dedicated to the beautiful dancer Isadora Duncan entitled Isadora Duncan in Italia, Un mito della danza sulle rive del Mediterraneo.

Such an exhibition will tell about the period Duncan stayed in Italy

Since September 2009, Siena has been celebrating one of the most important recurrences in the city history: the 700th anniversary of its “Costituto”, the first constitutional document written in vulgar language and not in Latin, in other words, the first symbol of democracy for the city of Siena. Finally, also common people could understand it.

It is for this reason that the city of Siena celebrates this recurrence with an event including several fields that aim to involve all the city with many initiatives: children, adults and elderly people.

Such an event will go on until May 31st 2010…so if you are in the neighborhood of Siena or you have never visited the city, this could be a perfect chance!

In fact, the programme of the “La Città del Sì” – a periphrasis of a famous sentence by Dante Alighieri – includes many reviews, exhibitions, shows and conventions.

Every weekend – from Friday to Sunday – visitors will find many appointments and events for tourists and Siena citizens, who will proudly show to be the heirs of the prosperous Republic of the Middle Ages. Good old times!

Until May 31st 2010, visitors will find also an interesting exhibition at Santa Maria della Scala Museum entitled Libri e fotografie del fondo Giuliano Briganti e dell’Istituto d’arte, a beautiful itinerary into Siena’s art between 13th and 14th centuries (opening hours from Monday to Thursday, from 9 am to 5 pm).

In addition, on next Saturday May 1st 2010, from 10 am to 1 pm,

Have you already seen the 4th edition of Contemporanea? Well my friends, you still have a month to go to the eternal city and marvel at great ideas and real masterpieces.

In fact, since last September, the original festival called “Contemporanea – art, visual, music, performance” is ongoing at Auditorum Parco della Musica in Rome; created by Oscar Pizzo and become extremely renowned, it will be open until May 12th 2010.

A tangle of different cultures, social issues and problems, different points of view: at its 4th edition, Contemporanea, includes places like Venice, Germany, Japan, Estonia, North America, Tropical Africa, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq, and turns into a space where past and present compare and challenge each other by facing topics like the tale, myth, religion, magic, nature, metropolis, technology, abysses, cosmic space, future, infinite. Is it enough?

Concerts, workshops, exhibitions, performances, meetings

“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

A special exhibition, opened on October 6th, 2009 and dedicated to the extraordinary work of Michelangelo Buonarroti as an architect, under the organization of Musei Capitolini in Rome is approaching to its end. For those who haven’t seen it and wanted to do so, the last day is February 7th, 2010. Beside the famous works in Florence, Siena, Bologna, Venice, the one made in Rome is considered to be among the most important.
Michelangelo had lived in Rome between 1505 and 1516, and afterwards from 1534 until his death in 1564, and during this forty-years long period the artist made numerous great projects, some of them realized, the others unfortunately remained on sheets of paper.
The exhibition is divided in 17 sections organized chronologically and it contains 105 works that remained to testify about the extraordinary inventions of Michelangelo.

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

The year 2009 is ending, but Milan‘s passion for Japan is still alive.
Infact, over the last 12 months “Samurai” and “Monet and Japan” already took place at Royal Palace in Milan, both of them with great success.

Now it’s time for “Japan. Power and Splendour (1568-1868)”, on the calendar in the same location from 6th December 2009 to 7th March 2010.
A refined exhibition, which will give the possibility to marvel at one hundred of precious works of art, coming from the most important Japanese museums: elegant ceramics, paintings on  paper and silk, decorated textiles, masks and armours… in homeland considered as true national treasures!

All the works on display were created during two crucial moments of Japanese history: the periods Momoyama (1568-1615) and Edo (1615-1868). About three centuries marked by the fall of the ancient society, traditionally based on the power of nobles and Samurai, and the gradual rise of a bourgeois middle class, rich but still excluded from the political power.

They were the new producers and consumers of art, and they are the protagonists of the works on show in Milan. This exhibition narrates us vices and