Ca’ Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art
December 17th 2011 – March 11th 2012

A major retrospective was inaugurated on Saturday, December 17th, in Venice, at the Museum of Ca’ Pesaro, aimed at discovering, tracing back and documenting, through more than two hundred works – including paintings, drawings, watercolours and etchings – the creative career of Gennaro Favai (Venice 1879-1958), a Venetian artist who succeeded

From November 24th 2011 to February 26th 2012
Academy Galleries

The exhibition “A Tribute to Lorenzo Lotto. Paintings from the Hermitage at the Academy Galleries” was opened in November 24th 2011 in Venice. It was made possible by the exceptional loan granted by the Museum of St. Petersburg to the Venetian galleries of two paintings rarely – if ever – seen before in Italy, namely: “the Portrait of Spouses” and the “Madonna delle Grazie“.

From January 2012

The Bevilacqua – La Masa Foundation is planning for 2012 an intense calendar of very interesting exhibition events.

It will start on February 2nd 2012, with two exhibitions: the one to be opened at the Gallery in St. Mark’s Square, a collective end-of-stay exhibition of the young artists currently assignees of studies; and the other, to be presented in Palazzetto Tito, a collection of

From November 16th 2011
Cini Foundation

On November 16th 2011, at the Giorgio Cini Foundation on the Island of San Giorgio (Venice), at 11.30 am, the new ELONORA DUSE ROOM was officially presented to the public, a new permanent space dedicated to the memory of the great Italian actress.

The project stems from the desire to turning the Eleonora Duse Archives of the Giorgio Cini Foundation into a “place” open to the public

From December 17th 2011 to April 1st 2012
Venetian Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts, Palazzo Franchetti

At Palazzo Franchetti, the seat of the Venetian Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Venice, an exhibition entitled “Photography in Japan (1860-1910) is being held since Saturday, December 17th 2011. Masterpieces”. It is the first retrospective ever organized in Italy dedicated to the great Japanese and European

Until 30th April 2012
Murano Island, Venice

On 9th December 2011, on the Island of Murano, in the Museum of Glass, the exhibition “1861-2011: UN’ISOLA, UN’ARTE, UN MUSEO” [one island, one art, one museum] was inaugurated. It is a great retrospective exhibition on the art of glass-making, which allows visitors to learn about the history and life of this Venetian island, famous all over the world for its glass works of art. In 1861 an archive that held information on the long history of glass making in Murano was created. The

Until 1st January 2012
Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Until 1st January 2012 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice is the venue of the third edition of Massimo Barbero’s curated project “Themes&Variations”. It will be held in the halls of the Gallery dedicated to temporary exhibitions. The masterpieces of the museum are thematically and scientifically compared to pieces of art created by more modern artists from other collections. The aim is to guide visitors and help them fully understand the work of the

From 24th November 2011 to 26th February 2012
Gallerie dell’Accademia

The “Homage to Lorenzo Lotto” Exhibition in Venice will be open until 26th February 2012. The State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia) has lent the Accademia museum gallery in Venice two paintings that have rarely – if ever – been seen in Italy, “Husband and Wife” and “Madonna delle Grazie”.

From 27th November 2011
Ca’ Giustinian
Free entry

With the Finissage of the 54th International Art Exhibition, the VIDEO MEDIUM INTERMEDIUM, an exhibition of artist videos from the ASAC (Historical Archive of Contemporary Arts) collections, opened in Palazzo Giustinian, which confirms yet again that this is the venue of the permanent activities of the Venice Biennale.

Until January 6th 2012
Palazzo Mocenigo

On the occasion of the exhibition “ELEGANCE IN EXILE. Between fashion and costume, Diaghilev’s time”, more than two hundred costumes of the “Ballets Russes” will be exhibited in the evocative rooms on the main floor of the Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo, the Centre for the Study of the History of Textiles and Costume, in Venice.

The Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo has been dealing for years with fashion and “piecework”, perfect to represent men “in their time”. The history of fashion adds meaning to the human,